The American Association for the Advancement of Science has published a special issue of its journal, The Information Society, focused on anonymous communication on the Internet. Fascinating stuff.
Micron is providing “free computers” for $1,087. The money is for three years of Internet service, a three year warranty, and one year of classes at Micron University. Can you say “marketing gimmick?”
Scott Rosenberg’s column at Salon today attacks the argument for pulling the plug on racist sites (and in a larger sense, any socially unacceptable sites) on the Web. As usual, he hits the nail right on the head. Trying to rid the world of these sites will never work, and I tend to agree that they aren’t very effective anyway.
Web Review has a very high level article on PHP.
I know nobody pays attention to the Amiga any more (I know I don’t), but I still found this bit of computer industry intrigue too good to pass up. Last year, Amiga dubbed QNX as their partner to create a new version of the Amiga operating system. Within the past few days, QNX made an announcement about their support for the Amiga, with screenshots and everything. Yesterday, Amiga announced that the next version of the Amiga operating system would use the Linux kernel. I’m wondering whether QNX made their announcement with prior knowledge of Amiga’s plans to dump them, in order to put pressure on them not to delay the release further by going with a different kernel. Interesting stuff.
Has anyone seen any news releases about Microsoft Passport?