Archive for May, 2004

Verizon and Bluetooth?!

Verizon offers no phone with Bluetooth capability. This drives me crazy! I have a Macintosh Powerbook with a Bluetooth mouse, and it is sweet. Add your name to the petition, to encourage Verizon to add a Bluetooth enabled phone. My only hope is this Motorola Preps CDMA Phone with Bluetooth (Phone Scoop).

Berg beheading conspiracies

This is news to me: Nick Berg’s Killing: 50 Fishy Circumstances, Contradictory Claims, and Videotape Anomalies || kuro5hin.org. An interesting read.

Blasting Larry Lessig

I’ve always thought it was interesting that the open source community is a fan of Larry Lessig. Did they choose him or did he choose them? Nevertheless, in the day of the DMCA, every geek needs a good lawyer; and while I haven’t studied Lessig’s work enough to make conclusions, he raises some interesting points. (I have listened to Free Culture.)

This may be old news, but last month Stephen Manes of Forbes.com wrote “Let’s Have Less Of Lessig”. Mr. Manes raises some interesting points, but it’s difficult to get over his “he’s an idiot” presentation; but it did get me to Forbes.com, which I presume it Manes’s chief end rather than really understanding the implications of the DMCA.

Recovering a Windows passwd

This article came in handy today: TechTV | Dark Tip: Windows Password Hacking. Gotta love knoppix.