Archive for the 'Programming' Category

Do You Hate Captchas?

OF COURSE YOU DO! Well, Youtube really needs to fix theirs and Urgo6667 of youtube orbit and SocialBlade fame is trying to get their attention on the matter. You can help by watching this video, commenting on it, giving it a thumbs up on youtube and sharing it with others that hate captchas! If we […]

Apple Wants To Patent Operating System With Built In Advertising

I just caught wind of this patent application (pdf) in which Steve Jobs & Co. at Apple are trying to patent what may well be the single most annoying operating system “features” ever developed anywhere. The idea is that, from time to time, the operating system would stop everything it’s doing and present advertisements.  The […]

Is Ubuntu’s New Firefox Watching You?

According to a recent Slashdot article it very well might be.  Ubuntu recently released a new extension to Firefox alpha 3 called “Multisearch”. The first thing that I don’t like about it is that it installs automatically without any warning about potential privacy problems.  For me that’s a deal-breaker all by itself. Another thing that […]

New Version of MMS Released

It’s been a long time since I did anything with MMS (Mixminion Message Sender) but I’ve finally gotten back to it. MMS Finally has word wrap, which means there shouldn’t be anymore of those really ugly long lines. There are also now three distributions.  The original which only contains MMS itself, a second that includes […]

Good News For Downloaders

A team of Microsoft engineers consisting of Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman set out to “investigate the darknet – a collection of networks and technologies used to share digital content”.  their conclusions were published in the report known as “Darknet Assumptions”.

Those assumptions boil down to three basic points.