* Backspin: Putting lipstick on the Internet porno-pig * Gearhead: The insanely cool VMware Player * The past 7 days on Gibbsblog
Backspin: Putting lipstick on the Internet porno-pig
If we can’t effectively define pornography in the real world, why would new laws for controlled Internet channels make things any better? No amount of lipstick can make this pig – CP80 – good-looking.
To read this week’s Backspin in full, please go to:
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/120505backspin.html?nl
Gearhead: The insanely cool VMware Player
Last week we finished with a brief discussion of VMware’s free VMware Player, which is essentially an amazingly useful run-time for virtual machines that runs under Windows and Linux.
To read this week’s Gearhead in full, please go to:
http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/120505gearhead.html?nl
The past 7 days on Gibbsblog:
Putting lipstick on a porno-pig
In Backspin this week, I discuss a proposal for port-based content filtering as a way of protecting children from porn – and why I think it’s a dumb idea. What do you think?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3786
And yet more Sony BMG revelations!
I didn’t think that there would be more to blog about Sony BMG today but I was wrong, oh, so wrong …
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3744
New Sony BMG DRM revelation! They violated the DMCA!
The Sony BMG fiasco just keeps getting better and better! Apparently the Digital Rights Mangling, er, Management (DRM) software that Sony BMG installed on unwitting users’ PCs contains code that violates the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)!
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3743
Dig deep hole, where stop?
“If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop?”
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3738
FireFox 1.5 Released
FireFox 1.5 is out! Lots of improvements and unlike the previous release, it works with Google Maps..
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3737
78 really expensive domain names to become available
By this weekend the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will decide on exactly how to make single letter domain names (such as “a.com”, “b.net” and “c.org”) available.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3735
Sony litigation update #3
Cry Havoc! and let loose the dogs of law! As if the Attorney General of Texas wasn’t enough trouble for Sony BMG another State is gunning for them …
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3734
