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Study: DRM a major barrier to e-textbook adoption

Thursday at 9:14 am - Link

I can only hope... - Andy Green

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leolaporte: Off to Costco to buy 100 hot dogs for Henry's birthday party on Friday.

Wednesday at 6:26 pm - Link

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watch the episode of 'How's it Made' where they show how hot dogs are made, yummy - fijidaddy

Henry's gonna get fat if he eats 100 hotdogs for his birthday... :-p - Andy Green

Only in America... num, num, num - processed food en masse! - ChangeForge via twhirl

what are the kids going to eat? My dad gets me with that joke all the time! - Mike Lewis

Just don't look to see how much sodium is in them. - Cory Brown

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The 11 Worst Ideas in Security « Amrit Williams Blog

Monday at 12:40 pm - Link

This blog entry is worth it for the reference to WEP as being "French security" alone... - Andy Green

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Stream ciphers cower before Adi Shamir's cube attack

Monday at 11:50 am - Link

I'm waiting for additional details and the paper to follow, but this just scares the hell out of me... - Andy Green

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Pictured: The horrific moment Olympic weightlifter turns his elbow back to front | Mail Online

August 13 at 10:59 pm - Link

ouch... - Andy Green

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» Georgia Boys got themselves a “For Real” Bigfoot carcass - No Foolin’! Dvorak Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log.

August 13 at 10:26 am - Link

making Georgians everywhere proud... - Andy Green

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An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability

August 10 at 12:45 pm - Link

GREAT tutorial on the Kaminsky DNS vuln, and well worth reading - Andy Green

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DMCA does not apply to US government, which can crack DRM with impunity

August 5 at 8:34 am - Link

Software companies beware, and modify your EULA ASAP. - Andy Green

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List of leading security personalities twitter sites and blogs - Andy Green

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Deep packet inspection: What you should know

July 31 at 9:41 pm - Link

Nice quick read on the possible uses and consequences of DPI - Andy Green

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Web worms squirm through Facebook, MySpace | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

July 31 at 9:41 pm - Link

Social engineering on social websites strikes again. If you're on Facebook or MySpace(yuck), take care to avoid clicking on these types of links, and NEVER approve or install downloads in these situations! - Andy Green

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Open Source Laptop Tracking Service

July 25 at 10:02 pm - Link

interesting... - Andy Green

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Student hacker at Ga. Highlands College arrested | ajc.com

July 25 at 10:02 pm - Link

What does the KSU Police department have to do with this, exactly? - Andy Green

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Video: Rush plays Rock Band

July 25 at 9:10 pm - Link

My favorite band in the world, failing to play their own song in Rock Band... :-) - Andy Green

not quite an epic fail, but very funny anyway; also the behind-the-scenes look at the green room for Colbert is a perk - Pete Delucchi

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Former UGA employee arrested on hacking charges

July 23 at 1:11 pm - Link

Right in our own back yard... - Andy Green

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This is just sick

July 23 at 11:46 am - Link

This reminds me of the "art" from the girl at Yale where she had a bunch of abortions. - Jeremy Herbel

Which ended up being a hoax. - Akiva Moskovitz

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It did? I looked into it when it first came out and thought it would have to be, but things checked out then. I never looked at it again after that. I guess I should have. - Jeremy Herbel

Not debating the quality of the 'art' in question at all, but I have a quick question regarding the comment by micker377: in what way is a video game simulating the attempted assassination of the President like "yelling 'FIRE' in a crowded theater"? - Derrick Burns

Would your outrage be as high if the "killers" were Army Green Berets going after a rouge president of another country? - Andy Green

Andy: Loving your own more than the others is basic of human experience. Not that you should not love everyone including those pesky rougue Presidents. Its just a matter of degree. - Robert

It really is too bad that the barriers to creation are such that independent game developers do not have the resources to develop games that advance the human condition. I can only hope that someday we'll have true art. There are way too many artists contributing to a 'game' that do not permit them to express themselves in a way that could promote awareness, connection, and ultimately change. Maybe we need to be more courageous? I don't know. Until then...it's paint by numbers for the man. - Ryan

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Robert Novak Hits Pedestrian - and runs! wtf?!?!

July 23 at 12:33 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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He probably had some hot tip about a CIA operative he could out and was in a hurry. After all, one of his importance cannot be bothered with mere pedestrians. - Jeff Jones

And anyone is surprised by this? We should all know by now that Robert Novak is above all of us mere mortals... - Rob McNair-Huff

the pedestrian was a Carl Rove plant in an effort to discredit Novak - Andy Green

Kudos to the bike rider who made him stop ... but just a ticket? - Todd Loren Sinclair

He was thinking that anyone not consuming oil "is a traitor to our way of life." - Phil Boiarski

Dracula strikes again.....blah! blah! - Trevor Dodge

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Fox TV news anchors enjoy plastic coffee

July 23 at 12:28 pm - Link

I don't know if this is more ridiculous or just plain sad and pathetic... - Andy Green

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Organization develops health care security framework

July 21 at 9:03 am - Link

This is a positive step, although I hope it will be handled better than PCI standards creation... - Andy Green

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11Alive.com | Atlanta, GA | Starbucks Names All 600 Stores to be Closed

July 18 at 10:54 am - Link

For those of us who were concerned which stores in metro Atlanta would be closed, we have a list... - Andy Green

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Schneier, Team Hack 'Invisibility Cloak' for Files - Desktop Security News Analysis - Dark Reading

July 16 at 8:06 pm - Link

This is bad news for the TrueCrypt marketing team, as they were plugging the ability to use this second, "hidden" partition to keep things REALLY hidden... :-) - Andy Green

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CrunchGear » Archive » Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008

July 15 at 9:22 pm - Link

i know being an early adopter has its ups and downs, but i JUST BOUGHT MINE LESS THAN 2 MONTHS AGO!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!! - Andy Green

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PC Pro: News: Google wins agreement to anonymise YouTube logs

July 15 at 9:11 am - Link

a collective sigh of relief from the internet over this agreement - however, it's still troubling that the original court order didn't make this explicit, or that google lawyers didn't even think to make this the case from the outset... - Andy Green

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As Textbooks Go 'Custom,' Students Pay - WSJ.com

July 15 at 9:11 am - Link

This is a troubling trend. "Custom" textbooks have the net result of forcing students to pay inflated rates, while lowering resale values. Top it off with universities collecting royalties from a captive audience, and this just stinks all the way around. - Andy Green

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S.F. officials locked out of computer network

July 15 at 9:11 am - Link

can anyone say "version" or "change" control? geez... - Andy Green

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High Tech Contact Lenses - Medical Team Contact Lens Jennifer Abney Contact Lenses

July 14 at 2:14 pm - Link

interesting... the driving and warfare applications specifically are fascinating to consider... - Andy Green

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Hackers disable county tax collector Web site | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal

July 13 at 8:36 pm - Link

Good read, if only because of the inane comments from the county tax collector, Janet Holley. First she says everything is "behind the firewall", then she later says there's nothing but public info on the site anyway. Huh? Methinks Ms. Holley has read too many articles with buzzwords like "firewall" in them... :-) - Andy Green

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Amazon Kindle is a Hit: 12% of Book Sales on Amazon, Doubled Since May

July 11 at 12:20 am - Link

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ok, another device to add to the bag, been watching this for awhile, but now going to make the commitment. looking forward to getting one by monday. - Nice Fish Films

But how many Kindles are in the wild? I think Leo might account for 50% of that 12%. I think those that sprung for the device are just buying more books. Though it's definitely increasing sales and margins. - xero

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i am still the member of the jury that is out. my one reprieve from the screen is my book, in my bed, next to my dogs, right before i go to sleep. maybe it's because i write books that i am a luddite on this one particular medium. - Brooke Shelby Biggs

12% of 130k != 12% of millions of books sold on Amazon total - Jesse Fornear

@ Brooke Shelby Biggs- oh it won't replace my "real" books, but think it will be great for flights, etc. agree with you though, reading a book is one of the last reprieves from the glowing screen world. - Nice Fish Films

Ebooks will substantially replace books (and etexts texts) once people figure it out. Absolutely guaranteed. Nostalgia about the look, feel and smell of paper, etc. simply is not going to cut it. (I currently read 10 ebooks for every book, and I've got a personal library of thousands of traditional books.) - Sean McBride

See also: Kindle love from Washington Post Company CEO—but can his newspaper learn to appreciate others’ iPhone love? http://tinyurl.com/6oltao QUOTE Gillian Wee’s feature leads with the word that Donald Graham, the 63-year-old CEO of the Washington Post Company, "says he hardly ever leaves home without his Kindle digital book reader from Amazon.com Inc." - Sean McBride

if the kindle had more of the books I want - especially the full o'reilly and wrox libraries, I'd already have one. The iPhone App Store could learn a thing from the Kindle and it's free 1st chapter preview. - felix

The title is hype. It's not 12% of books sold on Amazon, it's ONLY 12% of books available either on Kindle or offline = Amazon Kindle is a Flop. - Sprague D

I would love the Kindle buy one in an instant if I could get books for it at my local library...until then...no thanks - Snay Trivedi

@Sean - Agree about people making the switch. Once there is a great reader (not opinion on Kindle) then people will switch en masse. Paper books will become collectibles, nostalgic, or formal -- I liken it to the handwritten letter vs email. - xero

xero - You get it. What is amusing is that many people confuse the warm and fuzzy feelings they experienced while reading books with the physical properties of the book. They've been conditioned to associate the content of great books with the physical medium in which the content was delivered. In truth, there is nothing sacred about the physical medium -- it is entirely abitrary (within the constraints of an optimal user interface, of course). If Donald Graham can figure this out at age 63, anyone should be able to. - Sean McBride

Kindle's a flop? It was sold out for 5 solid months. - Brent Newhall

@Sean - Some books will always be better in print, but generally only those who used the print as an artistic medium and not a means to convey text. Example: http://tinyurl.com/6y9kth - xero

Until Amazon is more forthcoming about sales data (of both hardware and digital content), quotes about the Kindle being either a flop or a success are useless. I am perfectly willing to move to digital books (already own a Kindle) but the publishing community is dragging its collective feet until there is minimal risk. - Jill O'Neill

Does anyone know if a new version is coming out soon? Also wouldn't it be great if when you buy the physical copy from Amazon you get the Kindle version as well! - Derek Coatney

I like the Kindle on airplanes, but you have to train yourself which is page back or page forward - Francine Hardaway via twhirl

I have both a Kindle and Sony Reader. Once I got a decent cover for the Kindle, it's lame-o hardware UI seemed to fade away. Best part is that it has the Amazon.com bookstore behind it. I read more now, esp with intent. I sit down with the intent to read and not at some tiny screen that will probably ring on me. Currently reading: Halting State - Eric Rice

+1 xero @Jill Amen on the publishing community front. I would like for Amazon to add a feature that makes it easy for me to tell a publisher I want a book in Kindle format. - Erica Baker

These numbers are meaningless. 12% of the sales on the 130K titles they have available. There is no unit sales metric here! The Kindle sold out figure is also meaningless since they never revealed how many they produced. The title coverage is still pathetic (not even a third of books published in a year) and the price doesn't overcome the natural obstacle of no motivating change for this media. - AJ Kohn

Amazon needs to further motivate publishers to support the device at a discount versus the traditional media. I agree that Kindle can demand a slight premium for its instant content delivery, but the price of a Kindle copy shouldn't be equal to the printed copy... ever. From a user experience standpoint, the Kindle is an outstanding device, but the books seem to be over-priced right now. - Kevin Donahue

Sorry - lower the price to under $150 and get rid of the DRM. Otherwise I'm totally uninterested. - Tad - just Tad

@Kevin: I agree, but the relationship between Amazon and publishers is barely civil at this point. There is a track record between Amazon and publishers back to the eCommerce days ... and publishers are still smarting. In the UK, the largest UK publisher has had enough: http://tinyurl.com/5cwvao I think some publisher's would rather anybody else but Amazon have the lead position in digital book distribution. - AJ Kohn

I don't have one yet, but I'm starting to see them (just like when we first saw iPods). Kevin Fox has one. My sister has one. - Louis Gray

BIL has one. Dad has one. WANT. - Cyndy

i've got a kindle and i love it! - Andy Green

I've had my Kindle since day 1 (Nov 2007). I've read more since then than my prior 50 years of life. It's great! - J.D. Wegner

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Racism On The Web: You're Part Of The Problem

July 10 at 12:49 pm - Link

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Ignoring the words is not the solution, but neither is denying the ability to express them - as repugnant as some of the words may be. - Andy Green

This is a great article. Hank is totally right, you can't hide and brush over racism it has to be tackled head on. I like to think that in the UK race relations are pretty good (where I am in Coventry) but I can't talk about what it's like in the US. “I don’t want to get involved” is the cowards way out. Speak up, speak out! - Toby Graham

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+1 Toby - "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein - AJ Batac

People who try to make this into a free speech issue are killing me... speech is free when you can say whatever you want and not fear being dumped in a prison. People who say that not getting a fat sponsorship deal because the fat sponsor doesn't like what you are saying or have said are spoiled babies who obviously have spent too much time in front of their nice big LCD screens and not enough time thinking about what real censorship and real opression look like. - Michael Turro via twhirl

Great quote AJ, and that man would know! - Toby Graham

Michael T: I hate to keep making this point, but let's not go too far. I agree, there's nothing wrong with Verizon dropping Feldman. But lots of other people are having their jobs threatened out there because of their unrelated free expression... the McDonalds VP who has angered the AFA for supporting gay causes, the teacher who lost her job because someone found nude art photos of her on Flickr, and so on. It's not just about jail.. if your speech can be silenced through economic means, it ain't free. - Roger Benningfield

@michael turro just like i'm always slayed by those people who think they have a right to not be offended. all humans have a basic, inalienable right to think or feel however they choose to, as well as express those feelings. in my opinion, the only time freedom of expression should be curtailed is when that expression can lead to direct, imminent harm to another. - Andy Green

I agree - but Feldman's ability to speak his mind has in no way been curtailed. HE can get on his soapbox right now and say whatever he wants. Let's not confuse the right to free speech with the right to make money. After all it's the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself that is our inalienable right. - Michael Turro via twhirl

The N-word is all about context. When a white person uses it, there's no way to "whitewash" away the hatred or intent to demean it evokes. Words have no power without context. It's great that we're all discussing this now. However, I think the idiots in that chat room have been given way too much of a soapbox. They probably love the fact that a few of their choicest comments are out there for everyone to see. As a society, we need to collectively shun them. They need to be voted off the island. It's time to move to the next stage of humanity. - Patrick Beard via twhirl

@michael turro - i completely agree with what you said in your last post - however, that's not been the argument being advanced as far as i could tell. your comment is the first one made about his ability to make money (or the lack of it) based on his actions. the vast majority of the other comments have been something related to "well, it's racist so we have to shut him up". in my mind, two COMPLETELY different positions. - Andy Green

No person should be allowed to profit on the blatant racism that is stereotyping, without the obvious transparency and disclosures (i.e., tell us who is supporting your trash so we may vote with our wallets, alternatively, find a racist angel) - Dave Martin

Bring mean < Being offensive < Being a bigot http://www.sheysmith.com/2008/... - Shey

and still nobody looks at ego .. they think it is skin, how weird - gregory lent

It was a good reading, thx ! > The Universal Declaration of Human Rights > http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/ < Here you will find the most comprehensive collection of translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) (French) (Spanish) of 10 December 1948. Over 335 different language versions are available in HTML, PDF and graphical forms. + goto How can I help ? - alexandrek

I just love that the guy's name is "Hank Williams." - James Joyner

This was a good read. I think Hank's point is not about peoples rights to say what they want, his point is that this speech is being propagated by anonymous cowards. Guess that's the Internet equivalent of wearing a white sheet and hood over your head. What happened on Wayne's and Corvida chat the other night was disgusting! - Kevin

@James Totally derailing, but every time I'm talking to my husband about something Hank wrote and I say "Did you see Hank Williams' post..." I can't get past the Williams without him adding the "Jr., bitch" on the end. Hank has his second favorite name. After Bob. He really wanted to name one of our boys Bob. - Cyndy

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