I’ve been roundly disappointed by the Xandros Linux build on my 20GB Eee PC 900, but not quite enough to remove it. Ubuntu et al take far too long to boot; Moblin shouldn’t work, given its new Atom requirement; Windows is too bloated and slow to boot, although it would be okay with a conventional [...]
Being registered in Illinois where Obama won the Senate race by a 30-point margin (and lost in my home county by the same), there seems to be next to zero chance that the state will vote Republican for the first time since Reagan. As such, I’d be throwing my vote away if I vote for [...]
Salon.com is reporting on dozens of protestors having their doors broken down and homes raided by assault-weapon equipped SWAT teams in the leadup to the RNC. Two or three times a week my drive to work in Nepal is marked by dozens of policemen armed with bamboo poles, assigned to perform an old-fashioned sort of [...]
http://badbarr2008.com/
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080606/0136491330.shtml
The libs aren’t even running a libertarian (small L) this year? So which of these three folk who want to strip away my fair use rights am I supposed to vote for again? Bad year for IP counter-reform. Bad year for privacy rights. Bad year for consumer rights. Bad year for folk who’d like [...]
The entire technical community needs to be a great deal more careful and cautious about promoting OpenDNS as a cure-all for security concerns in DNS. I used their service in the States for quite some time, and, while there were several major problems, it actually would have been an adequate solution for the security concerns [...]
Joe Biden’s pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record
I’ll be shocked if this news breaks outside of technical circles, but at least there’s some vibrant discussion on CNet, /., et al about this man’s frequent attempts to do substantial damage to our basic fundamental human right to privacy. Any chance at all that the Republicans might do [...]
NTC still hasn’t responded to any of my concerns or met the relatively simple http://www.doxpara.com test. It’s gotten so bad that I’m seriously considering punking down the cash to buy dedicated VPN hardware here and in the US, but that doesn’t help everyone else stuck behind their proxy and broken DNS servers. I’ll continue to try [...]
NTC is ignoring repeated emails on this subject for two days, after the bug’s been thoroughly beaten to death in the technical and even popular press for three weeks straight. Even worse, I’ve seen some evidence that they may already be getting hit by this attack or another type of DNS or proxy cache poisoning [...]
Summary: Nepal Telecom provides a decent, though not exemplary ADSL service, but compromises user security by running DNS servers prone to cache poisoning and a presumably equally obsolete Squid proxy that there is no way around, short of using a VPN from off-network.
Update: Obviously I’ve had further issues with these guys in terms of reporting [...]
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