Month November 2003

How Belkin routers spammed users From NetSurfer Digest VeriSign had this year’s Esteemed Award for Technical Marketing Evilness (EATME) all locked up with its attempt to redirect DNS queries to its own search server, but all of a sudden we…

Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Underground In 1968 Vaclav Havel, then a dissident, later to become President of Czechoslovakia, “sat down and, knowing that he’d likely be imprisoned for his efforts, wrote an open letter to his dictator, Gustav Husak,…

CDs ‘could be history in five years’ Via the Dead Media mailing list Compact discs could be history within five years, superseded by a new generation of fingertip-sized memory tabs with no moving parts.

National Guard pay delayed, denied GAO report: 94 percent of those in six units had pay problemsIn one Colorado unit, soldiers had their checks docked, to pay off $48,000 each in debt they did not owe. “They were mad, and…

Big fun with telemarketers To continue my adventures as described yesterday, yes, SBC telemarketers called me yet again today. That makes something like eight times in three days — and after I repeatedly asked to be taken off their calling…