Link: iTWire - Vista: They took five years for this?
“Linux users can, at times, be the worst kind of ingrates, whining and complaining about what they perceive as missing features in a free operating system. My advice to all such whingers: spend 10 days using the latest version of Windows and you’ll realise that you are living in a world of relative bliss.”
Probably worth reading. If not, just enjoy that lovely lead paragraph. :)
Link: Create Password Protected PDF Files On Your Mac (22 Jun 2007)
This article describes in details how to create password protected PDF files on Mac OS X by using a freely available command line utility, as well as an Automator Workflow.
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Link: The ten most hated words on the Internet
Blogosphere wins for me…
Link: CBC-TV: The Nature of Things: Build Green
I’d like to see this show. Perhaps it’s online somewhere…
Link: Security study pokes holes in advanced authentication claims
The study is saying that image authentication systems aren’t effective. However, they’re ineffective because users ignore them. Seems to me the image system isn’t the problem, here.
…as usual. ;-)
Link: Whoops: Airlines And Cable TV Score Lower Than The IRS In Customer Satisfaction - Consumerist
A very impressive achievement, indeed.
Link: Users strike back against corporate customer service
“Power to the people! Creative consumers have found plenty of ways to get some personal attention from faceless corporations. No longer content to sit back and abide by the whims of fate (or customer service), empowered consumers have been on a rampage this month; let’s take a look.”
Are arbitration-only clauses in EULAs unenforceable? That’d be an interesting development…
Link: RechargeIT.org
Google’s getting into philanthropy now. I’ve seen some pessimism that the $11M contribution to plug-in hybrids is pretty small and won’t likely do much, but hell, that’s really quite a lot of cash. It’ll be interesting to see how this moves along.
Link: WebIS: Open Letter to ‘Warez’ Sites - OSNews.com
So is the lesson to take away from this that we should only pirate software from large software houses? :)
Link: The Quest for the Car of the Future
“Where will the car of the future come from? It’s unlikely to come from anywhere you’d expect it to. Wired’s money is on the car of the future coming from NASA. ‘New technology that promises to revolutionize the automobile as we know it is emerging from research institutions and startups — and these innovations won’t set you back $100,000 like a Tesla will… One experiment involves small electric motors located in the wheels of the CityCar, a tiny, nimble and practically silent vehicle with wheels that turn 360 degrees, enabling it to slip neatly into tight urban parking spaces. Others are looking to revolutionize the automobile’s engine, not replace it.’”