Well done to IrelandOffline for their immediate response to the current edition of ComReg’s utterly fictitious quarterly reports; and for dealing with an unusually sympathetic media response superbly. (more…)
A number of web companies are teaming up to create a database of child porn images, which they claim will be used to monitor for child porn being distributed around their networks, in much the same way antivirus companies keep virus databases, and antispam companies keep corpuses. (more…)
I’d imagine that this Business 2.0 story is doing the rounds a lot faster than it’s daddy, “The 50 people who matter now”. We do like to see people dissed, particularly when one of them is Microsoft’s head psycho Steve Ballmer. Odd to see him in the company of Linus Torvalds and Rob Malda though!
So to speak. I’ve had this as a draft since the “Can Labour pull off innovation” item, but I never got around to actually writing it. In basic terms though, I think Exley will do his best to leverage the Irish blogging community – since just blogging on behalf of Rabbitte won’t be innovative enough – in the same way ye all do, pulling each other up by the bootstraps; and I’m wondering how the Irish blogging community will respond to that. (more…)
Click the digg to see, or the thumbs for screenshots. It basically allows a third-party to frame their own content and receive form submissions with no warning prompts. The POC provides a citibank-skinned login form and sends an alert() onSubmit without the login details. It doesn’t prove that the data is being retreived, but there’s no reason to think they couldn’t. Shoddy workmanship on Citibank’s part, a bank should really do better than this.
No doubt some people will take this seriously, I just think it’s a tad humourous. It’ll probably get more humourous the more people take it seriously.
Open letter from a former CIA case officer to incoming Director Michael Hayden. Sensible, well put, yet bizarre.
Garrett Jones is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Army War College. He served as a case officer with the CIA in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. He retired in 1997 and now lives in the northwestern United States. CIA Statement: “This material has been reviewed by the CIA. That review neither constitutes CIA authentication of information nor implies CIA endorsement of the author’s views.â€
The IHT tells us that Motorola is joining forces with Vodafone, NTT, Matsushita, NEC and Samsung to develop Linux-based mobile phone operating systems.
We’ve had this in the mainstream once before, with Sharp’s wonderful Zaurus, but that company’s schizophrenia when it came to development of the platform, customer interaction and even availability of the devices, has pretty much restricted the Zaurus to persistent, wealthy nerds — first mover, meet last mover.
That was just one vendor though, not five vendors and two of the biggest operators in the world. Can they pull it off, or will it all end in nitpicking and nothing like so many times in the past? I won’t call this one, but I think you know which way I’d like it to go…
Incredible photos from North Korea, taken from the travelblog of a Russian visitor, with rough translations. Pictorials like this always fascinate me, because in a way they’re a viewport to the past, and they also remind me of my glastnost / perestroika-era school tour to Russia. Fair dues to Douglas Comm’s Gerry Motherway for pulling that one off.
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