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Monday, October 25, 2004 10:17 AM

Malware, email scams and other...

Unfortunately, everything is a target nowadays. Malware for Mac: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5424883.html RedHat security update email scam: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/65033/red-hat-hit-by-securityupdate-email-scam.html Slashdot discussion: http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/10/24/2352234.shtml?tid=172&tid=110&tid=218&tid=106
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Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:33 PM

Public TV zapper

This is probably old news to some people, but it's sooo cool: A keychain device that enables people to turn off TVs just about anywhere According to the article, TV-B-Gone costs $15 and is capable of turning off about 1000 TV models.
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Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:13 AM

Google Desktop - Part 2

Nathan Weinberg apparently spoke to Google's Marrisa Mayer and comments on my concerns . Nathan claims that #10 and #1 are by design. Yes, apparently they are by design - it would be quite hard to incidentally hook up the WinInet.dll or to install a BHO.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004 1:59 PM

Some "interesting" reactions to my Google Desktop concerns...

Overall, most readers that commented on my Google Desktop post took it for what it is - a list of my personal concerns with it. However, there are two "interesting" posts I'd like to comment on. Lazyboa thinks (post in Russian) I posted it because I am
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004 11:19 AM

Google Desktop

There are lot of people that think the new Google Desktop is great and revolutionary. However, there are several things wrong with it that make me stay away from it. Here's the short list (in no particular order): It hooks up WinInet.dll. Hooking up system
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Saturday, October 16, 2004 3:11 AM

William Gibson has a blog

That might be old news for people out there, but it was a pleasant surprise for me to discover that William Gibson has a blog ( rss here ). Apparently, it's been up for the last two years or so. Oh well, I guess I can't keep an eye on everything. Although
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Sunday, October 10, 2004 10:22 PM

History is happening...

...now. Anzari X Prize was won by SpaceShipOne. I wonder http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/ how long before the first comercial space ship flights? Next one is the Darpa Grand Challenge .
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Friday, October 08, 2004 2:34 PM

Indigo Belote - Part 1

George posted the first part of of multipart article on Indigo Belote. Go read it here ... Steve , does this post count or do I have to post something else? :-)
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