Month January 2006

The control over the price of oil is in now in the hands of global guerrillas — the open source, system disrupting, transnational crime fueled, sons of global fragmentation. These actors can now, at will, curtail the supply of oil…

WaPo says Dubya’s stonewalling won’t play. Here are some things we know about Jack Abramoff and the White House: The disgraced lobbyist raised at least $100,000 for President Bush’s reelection campaign. He had long-standing ties to Karl Rove, a key…

Low tech defeat for CD DRM! Applying a piece of opaque tape to the outer edge of the disk renders the data track of the CD unreadable. A computer trying to play the CD will then skip to the music…

Industry and academia have joined together in an open source-like initiative to stop spyware, an excellent idea indeed. StopBadware.org is a “Neighborhood Watch” campaign aimed at fighting badware. We will seek to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in…

Michelle Bachelet just became president of Chile. Her father was tortured to death, and she herself was tortured. Now she’s president. Democrats are saying that they won’t filibuster even though they have the votes because it might backfire. No guts,…