Category Archives: In The News

Blogging some links and comments

Freespire? worth thinking about. From what I’ve been told by people who’ve used it it’s a really nice OS. I wouldn’t run any servers with it, but I might give it a good try for an oldish desktop which could use a faster browser (I dont actually know if linspire browses faster than, say, XP, [...]

Digital images have fingerprints (news to me, didnt know they had fingers, or hands…)

Whoa! Digital photographic fingerprints! Neat! Who’d have thought that the forces of entropy were *against* the idea of anonymnity Entropy 1, Privacy 0! I wonder how long it’ll take for them to adapt this to digital video as well. Theoretically you would also see a uniform variation even when the background image was changing. Like [...]

Of AOL, Porn, and Piracy

In response to the “big news” about AOL’s IPTV technology, and the small uproar here about Mac users being out of luck… as well as some other recent news about IPTV’s strengths and weaknesses: Havent the porn guys been doing this for years? And dont they pretty well have it down to a science? I [...]