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No one from Shyftr has contacted me in response to my emailed requests to remove my feed from their site. It seems they care as little about customer service as they care about copyright. I emailed them on Saturday afternoon and asked them to remove my feed within 48 hours. That deadline is now up, [...]
» Go to this postSome cockamamie site that calls itself Shyftr has launched recently, and they’re into stealing people’s content. If you look around at their site, they’re couching their actions in nice language and calling it a place where people can read their favorite feeds and discuss them. I call it outright theft and wonder why their site [...]
» Go to this postiPhone Accessories - The My Touch keys turns you iPhone into a tactile gadget http://tinyurl.com/38rps4 #
NSA’s Domestic Spying http://tinyurl.com/22r6xq #
USB Gadgets - The Evergreen USB Caterpillar Hub http://tinyurl.com/2q9e66 #
What Happened to Wartime Sacrifice? (Interesting point of view) http://tinyurl.com/2vfqmv #
The most powerful sporting rifle in the world http://tinyurl.com/2zld45 #
JoT 1087, Alternatives to waterboarding. http://tinyurl.com/23rltd #
Starting Over: [...]
16 Bit Versus 8 Bit Mode http://tinyurl.com/2snass #
Is Silverlight 2 catching up with Flash? http://tinyurl.com/362kcc #
BlueArc’s Titan is Flexing Petabytes http://tinyurl.com/3a357r #
About a company that really knows how to leave a mess http://tinyurl.com/3cxwhn #
California court threatens homeschoolers http://tinyurl.com/3abrco #
Ziff Davis Media Files For Bankruptcy Protection http://tinyurl.com/28eocr #
Where a Dollar Will Get You http://tinyurl.com/2xmh3b #
Reduce, Reuse, [...]
For the moment, this is a rhetorical question. I’ve been re-thinking the way I publish my photos online in view of the recent and very prominent theft of Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir’s photos from Flickr. Call me naive, but I really believed, and still would like to believe, that people will wish to stay legal and pay [...]
» Go to this postToday’s calorie-free serving:
Clive Thompson from the NYT has a detailed write-up of what’s involved if small bands want to get their name out there these days. The almost-requisite MySpace page is a given… But while the web makes it easy for them to get their names out there, keeping up with the fans becomes a [...]
» Go to this postRecently mailed a package with Priority Mail, and it didn’t arrive at its destination on time. All the USPS website would tell me is that the shipping info was received. Finally called them 7 days later — remember, Priority Mail is supposed to be a 2-3 day delivery — told them I had a shipping/label [...]
» Go to this postAt least their current iterations, anyway. Turns out a $1 bumpkey - a key whose every notch was cut to its lowest setting can easily open any lock of a given brand. (You need a bumpkey for each brand/kind of lock). Basically, this bumpkey then becomes the master key for all of the locks that [...]
» Go to this postI’ve just been alerted to the following social engineering scam, which checks out true according to the FBI and Snopes. Here are the details:
In this con, someone calls pretending to be a court official who says a warrant has been issued for your arrest because you didn’t show up for jury duty. The caller claims [...]
This is one web hosting company you should not touch, not even with a 10-foot pole!
I signed up with them back in January of 2006, because I was attracted by their many features and low price. They were offering over 35GB of space, and unlimited bandwidth. While that last hook should have had me turning [...]
I’d forgotten about my bad experience with these people until they sent me some spam a couple of weeks ago. To return the favor, I’m going to tell you what I know of them, and believe me, it’s not pretty…
These days, they’ve got a new domain (davisongetresults.com) which acts as a forward to their old [...]
The World Bank has put together a very informative collection of papers and websites on corruption at this web page. They define corruption as “theft of public resources for private gain”, and they define and evaluate the various costs associated with corruption.
They name two in the summary: one is redistributive, and is incurred when businesses [...]
