Archive for July, 2005

29Jul

Bruce Schneier on Identity Theft

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Identity Management

Welcome back!In an interview with “Government Technology”:
“”Identity theft” doesn’t make sense as a term. Your identity is the only thing about you that cannot be stolen. The real crime is fraud due to impersonation. Even worse, by calling it “identity theft,” we naturally focus on the wrong solution: making personal information harder to steal.
We need [...]

29Jul

More bouncy balls

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

more bouncy balls

Originally uploaded by sem.

I sure wish there also was a movie…

28Jul

IRA orders end to armed campaign

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Politics

Guardian Unlimited: IRA orders end to armed campaign
Whoa, this is big. (If they act upon it)

The IRA said in its statement: “The leadership of [the IRA] has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. This will take effect from 4pm this afternoon.
“All IRA units have been ordered to dump arms. All volunteers have been [...]

28Jul

Want to see Bill Gates speechless?

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Fun

He can’t even appreciate getting credited for an invention!.
(Side note: even *that* wasn’t an invention by Microsoft – did they come up with anything at all???)

That guy must be insanely rich by now – first he founds StarDivision and manages to sell it to Sun, now his latest company gets acquired by Yahoo.
Congrats! As you know, I welcome *any* progress in the syncng arena…

28Jul

The broken locks: Kryptonite speaks

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Naked Conversations have an interview with Donna M. Tocci, Kryptonite’s PR manager, trying to explain how busy they were and why they acted the way they did.
Still a rather lame excuse, I’d say.

28Jul

Cruisebox – Tell the FCC to stick it

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Music

Heard that on the Daily Source Code today – that song ROCKS!
Get it via the artists’ page, rather than using Adam’s broken podshow.com links (they link to the Podsafe Music Network, but to a login page rather than the song page).

28Jul

John Cleese – Declaration of Revocation

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Fun

HIL-ARI-OUS!!!


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