Craig Maloney

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson
How appropriate.

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Dianne Feinstein’s “Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music (PERFORM) Act” would permanently hobble your ability to record off the radio and force webcasters to use DRM formats.. Are you fucking insane? This is the most short-sighted, monopolistic, brazen legislation I’ve seen from Congress in quite some time. Read, understand, Take Action!

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There’s one set of phone calls you never ever want to get from your spouse. The calls that notify you that some major life change has occurred. The calls that let you know that a loved one has passed on. The frantic call that the toilet is broken, and so is the shutoff valve. These [...]

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According to Fox 2 this morning, these simple steps can add years to your life. Being one of those people that likes to add years to my life (and I’m sure most of you would also like to add years to your life), I waited in rapt attention to the actual news story. I will [...]

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Went to Penguicon 4.0 today. Interesting show. I wish I had gone earlier, but alas, I didn’t. Went to a talk on PHP security, which was extremely fascinating. (Apparently e107 has a rather nasty hole in it as of a few days ago, according to the speaker). Also saw the Slashdot Q&A, which was very [...]

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Ahhh, I get it now. The reason people don’t want to switch to Linux is because we’re a bunch of arrogant pricks. It’s obviously something like that because there’s no other technical reason why you folks are still running Windows, right? :)

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You’ve cut your finger. Put on a band-aid? What if it falls off during the day? What? You’ve never worried about this before? Well, pretend you have, and be amazed at this method for keeping a band-aid on all day.

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Which would you rather trust: A coallition of volunteers and companies who work their asses off to fix security issues and bugs as they become available, or a single company that admits to hiding vulnerability details so they have more time to fix them. I know the crackers and script kiddies don’t wait to exploit [...]

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Hope you have a great Birthday!

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Here’s an article from O’Reilly Network about the Macintosh Lab at Microsoft. Two articles in one day about Microsoft? Say it isn’t so. :)

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