http://taint.org/spicylinks/ Spicylinks - Level 3 en-us jm-spicylinks@jmason.org http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Sony CD installs DRM rootkit?</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>malware that hides itself and impossible for almost everyone to remove [<a href="http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/10/31/2016223.shtml?tid=172&tid=158">via</a>] </span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jm">Justin Mason</a> : <span class=sl_title>Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Sony's appalling misuse of black-hat techniques to enforce their DRM by hook or by crook, without even an uninstall option</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.kayodeok.co.uk/weblog/">Kayode Okeyode</a> : <span class=sl_title>Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.groovymother.com/">Rod Begbie</a> : <span class=sl_title>Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Sony are now using Windows vulnerabilities to hide DRM software on Windows PCs so that users can't uninstall them. Fuckers.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/apathetic">apathetic</a> : <span class=sl_title>Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/malaclyps">malaclyps</a> : <span class=sl_title>Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/n0wak">n0wak</a> : <span class=sl_title>Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Geez.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: Consume! DRM Geekery Media Music Security Software business cluetrain customer-hostile daily drm ethics minilinks music privacy rootkits security software sony via:boingboing web windows)</p> 2005-11-01T14:19:30Z Consume! DRM Geekery Media Music Security Software business cluetrain customer-hostile daily drm ethics minilinks music privacy rootkits security software sony via:boingboing web windows http://lesscode.org/2005/10/28/microformats-zen/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.meyerweb.com/">Eric Meyer</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Zen of Microformats</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.quietconfusion.com/">Jim Ray</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Zen of Microformats [@lesscode.org]</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jm">Justin Mason</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Zen of Microformats [@lesscode.org]</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>'We all bear the scars of drawn-out battles over edge cases that satisfied someone’s sense of “completeness” or “aesthetics” or “perfection”, but ultimately made the common cases harder and solved no real problem.'</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.kayodeok.co.uk/weblog/">Kayode Okeyode</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Zen of Microformats</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>"Microformats" are a set of specifications describing interoperable machine formats that work on the web</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://simon.incutio.com/">Simon Willison</a> : <span class=sl_title>The Zen of Microformats</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>The process is more interesting than the formats themselves.</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: 2read 80-20 code daily design-philosophy lesscode microformats resources software toread via:simonwillison web webdev)</p> 2005-10-31T07:34:27Z 2read 80-20 code daily design-philosophy lesscode microformats resources software toread via:simonwillison web webdev http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/10/your_photos_on_.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.waxy.org/">Andy Baio</a> : <span class=sl_title>Flickr adds photo printing!</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>by mail, or pick them up at your local Target store for one hour printing [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/yorkie">via</a>] </span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.kottke.org/">Jason Kottke</a> : <span class=sl_title>You can now get prints of your photos from Flickr</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc><a href="http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/10/your_photos_on_.html">You can now get prints of your photos from Flickr</a> (in the US, more locations coming soon). You can also do a bunch of other things, like get books printed, back up your photos to DVD, and get stamps printed.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.quietconfusion.com/">Jim Ray</a> : <span class=sl_title>Flickr is printing now</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>I'm simultaneously confused about why people need this and delighted that it now exists. Lots of cool stuff in the works, too.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://simon.incutio.com/">Simon Willison</a> : <span class=sl_title>Flickr printing now available (US only)</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>You can also order your photos as stamps!</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: flickr photography via:waferbaby)</p> 2005-10-27T15:33:57Z flickr photography via:waferbaby http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/firefox_internet_explorer/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/">Jeremy Zawodny</a> : <span class=sl_title>Make Firefox Look Like Internet Explorer</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>if you wanna trick your friends into using a better browser, I guess</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.kayodeok.co.uk/weblog/">Kayode Okeyode</a> : <span class=sl_title>Make Firefox Look Like Internet Explorer</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Make Firefox Look Like Internet Explorer</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://conforme.phidji.com/">Philippe Janvier</a> : <span class=sl_title>Make Firefox Look Like Internet Explorer</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Oui, mais pourquoi ? Peut-être simplement pour démontrer le pouvoir des thèmes et des extensions de Firefox. </span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: browsers daily firefox hacks ie internetexplorer links themes web windows)</p> 2005-11-01T11:50:31Z browsers daily firefox hacks ie internetexplorer links themes web windows http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8214 <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.kottke.org/">Jason Kottke</a> : <span class=sl_title>Deciding among competing tasks</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8214">How Einstein & Darwin wrote letters, people write email, and birds forage for food may reveal general patterns in how animals decide among competing tasks</a>.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jm">Justin Mason</a> : <span class=sl_title>New Scientist: Email and letter writing share fundamental pattern</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>easy/urgent questions answered quickly, hard questions wait; this pattern was true for Darwin and Einstein</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/n0wak">n0wak</a> : <span class=sl_title>New Scientist - Email and letter writing share fundamental pattern</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Truth: "most emails are answered fairly quickly, but a few sit around for a long time, and some sit around for a very long time."</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: Email Psychology correspondence email factoid history letters via:boingboing)</p> 2005-10-27T17:19:23Z Email Psychology correspondence email factoid history letters via:boingboing http://bjfogg.typepad.com/bj_foggs_weblog/2005/10/stealth_mode_is.html <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.padawan.info/">François Nonnenmacher</a> : <span class=sl_title>Stealth mode is overrated</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc></span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/">Ross Mayfield</a> : <span class=sl_title>Stealth mode is overrated</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>So I chose stealth mode. In retrospect, this was my company's first big mistake.</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.plasticbag.org/">Tom Coates</a> : <span class=sl_title>"In growing my company from a research question to a launched internet service, I've learned an important lesson: Stealth mode is overrated."</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>My personal opinion is that you need to get your product up to a point where its purpose is well communicated and simple and then get it out in public as quickly as possible so that you can rapidly iterate on top of it...</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: businessmodel entrepreneurship iterative iterativedevelopment productdevelopment startup stealth stealthmode)</p> 2005-10-30T10:30:53+01:00 businessmodel entrepreneurship iterative iterativedevelopment productdevelopment startup stealth stealthmode http://akismet.com/ <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/">Jeremy Zawodny</a> : <span class=sl_title>Akismet</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://del.icio.us/jm">Justin Mason</a> : <span class=sl_title>Akismet</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Matt "Wordpress" Mullenweg's new commercial anti-comment-spam plugin. very secretive about what algorithms it uses, but I'll guess it's Razor-ish</span></em> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://www.kayodeok.co.uk/weblog/">Kayode Okeyode</a> : <span class=sl_title>Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam</span> - <em><span class=sl_person_desc>Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again</span></em> </p> </li> </ul> <p>(Tags: akismet anti-spam blog-spam blogs comment-spam daily links plugins resources spam web wordpress)</p> 2005-10-31T18:30:08Z akismet anti-spam blog-spam blogs comment-spam daily links plugins resources spam web wordpress