mpawlo writes "As reported by Greplaw, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) together with Privacyactivism has released an interactive video game designed to educate players about their privacy and fair use rights. The game is focused on digital rights management technologies, online spyware, and data profiling servers. We have seen similar games in Sweden from the Anti-piracy Bureau and Flash movies from BSA in the US, however striking a different tune.

I was going to write my Metaphors rant, which focusses on the do's and don'ts of metaphor usage, esp. as relating to the Internet, but I found myself really wishing I had a prerequisite piece. So here it is: A piece on what I mean by the term Clear Thinking, which I use a technical term with a specific meaning to me. I'm finally starting to get some synergies going in my essays.

When I first read Meg Hourihan’s piece on blogging, I said to myself— SWEET! Of course, this wasn't the hegemonic response. Stavros was the first to blast it, followed closely by Jonathon. You see, in my opinion, what she was writing about is really the continuum transfunctioner of blogging. To be tiresomely McLuhanesqe, the medium is the message. You may be somewhat unfamiliar with the terminology used in this post, but despite, or perhaps because, of it, I think it makes some valid and interesting points.

Get well soon, Dave.

You don't "install" web pages; you simply visit them. Why should applications be any different? ... Existing HTML/JavaScript developers can be productive immediately developing XWT user interfaces. This is because XWT visual layout is specified using a dialect of XML which is extremely similar to HTML tables, and because interactivity is scripted in industry-standard ECMAscript (JavaScript). No special tools are required -- just a simple text editor and a zip archiver.

This is a test post to make sure everything's working correctly. I moved my main computer system to be a mostly-permenent Linux box for my job, but I missed Radio Userland, which is now the only Windows program keeping me in Windows at all. So I shuffled the stuff I had my 233MHz onto the main machine, and loaded up Windows XP onto my 233MHz Pentium I with 96MB RAM.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, tell all your friends about the CBDTPA!! [Scripting News] And remember, the The CBDTPA is immune to criticism while you're thinking about how to attack it. I haven't watched the Flash yet; the server is still slashdotted. I hope that it's good quality.

You may have caught an earlier post on this topic if you're subscribed to the RSS feed. I got Radio working quite well under WineX* from Transgaming, but it's just flawed enough that I can't quite use it or fix it. But it's getting close... Current summary of Radio in Wine: * The news aggregator works. There is an issue with the date/time APIs... my computer thought it was 10am when it was 2pm (UTC vs.

The good news is, I've got a summer job so I can continue to eat this summer, before going back to school and resuming the TA jobs. The bad news is, the job has a lot of perl, and I'm a python kinda guy. Though I'll live. (And it's still up in the air whether I'll have to write any, difficult directly proportional to the quality of the existing code.

A month ago, the MPAA filed its report [PDF] with the Senate Judiciary Committee on the terrors of analog copying. I quote: "in order to help plug the hole, watermark detectors would be required in" -- are you sitting down? -- "all devices that perform analog to digital conversions." At their page Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age, the Senate lays out the issues they'll be looking at, including briefs from corporate groups, and provides a comment form so your opinion can be heard as well.