Perhaps rather than worrying so much about Wikileaks, or buying up hundreds of domain names involving various combinations of their top executives along with “sucks” or “blows,” Bank of America should get its actual banking house in order. Consumerist… Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned before how often it seems that those who used to make their business model relying on artificial scarcity can’t seem to shake the “but, but piracy” claims. For example, a few years back, when I attended a music industry conference, I wa… Continue reading →

The latest version of this powerful password manager throws in a new look and feel, support for Google Chrome, and offers an annual subscription to install it on multiple PCs. Originally posted at News – Digital Media

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CIO Lars Rabbe explains the reasons behind the recent outage that left Skype customers around the world without service and what the company is doing to prevent it from happening again. Originally posted at News – Digital Media

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Recently on Reddit, a link to a “Venn diagram” about “people paid to touch your junk” got pretty popular (even though it was apparently a repeat post of one that didn’t get nearly as popular. You can see it here:

The image then got plenty of attent… Continue reading →

Gangs and gang violence may be a serious problem in some areas, but does that mean we should make people guilty based on very loose associations? Venkat Balasubramani has a post about a recent appeals court ruling in Ohio, in which some defendants wer… Continue reading →

We’ve talked a lot about how prosecutors have been abusing the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act), which is supposed to be a law against malicious hacking. However, it’s being stretched in all kinds of ways. It looks like similar state laws are also… Continue reading →

Web sites that present one type of site to Google’s crawlers while presenting another type to users may be in for a rankings shift, according to a Google engineer. Originally posted at Relevant Results

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I recognize that there are many people out there who simply don’t understand the appeal of Twitter. Every time we mention the service, we get comments from people saying things like “why would I want to know what some random person had for lunch.” Of… Continue reading →

If you’ve been to a gym lately, you’ve probably seen how “spinning” classes have become quite popular these days. When I first heard of them, I couldn’t figure out why they called them “spinning,” rather than just “stationary bike” classes, but now I … Continue reading →