BRUCEB NEWS
The Bad Guys Are Gonna Git You If You Don’t Watch Out
Be careful when you read your email! I’ve noticed an increase in phishing messages in the last few months. The bad guys continue to improve their grammar and the presentation of their fake messages, to make it more likely that you’ll be fooled into giving them a...
PAY MUSIC SERVICES
The music industry's pay services, RealOne and PressPlay, are worse than you realize. Read the details here, then do what I did - uninstall all the RealNetworks software from...
YOUNGSTERS ARE ALL THUMBS
According to a new study (reported in the Guardian Unlimited Observer), the thumbs of people under 25 have become the hand's most muscled and dextrous digits. Almost all people...
INTERVIEW WITH LAWRENCE LESSIG
If you're following the copyright wars, you might be interested in a question-and-answer session on Slashdot with Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and one of the leaders...
COPYRIGHT POLICE GET UGLIER
Today's news has more evidence that the entertainment industry is successfully shaping our world - by filling it with fear and intimidation. An Austin, Texas, man could face up...
DELL REACHES GOAL, SHUTS DOWN
The Onion is a treasure. One of its stories this week is just perfect: AUSTIN, TX—After 18 years of striving, Dell Computer finally reached its long-stated goal to be the...
TIME WARNER HATES AOL SOFTWARE
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that America Online has continued to use Microsoft Internet Explorer as its browser engine, even though it acquired Netscape last year - pretty...
WINDOWS XP HOME vs. PROFESSIONAL
There are relatively few differences between Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional for home users and small businesses sharing computers in a workgroup. (If your company...
EARTHLIGHTS
Here's a cool photo of the earth. This is the information that came along with the link by e-mail, for what it's worth. The image is a panoramic view of the world from the new...
NEW NOTEBOOKS
Today Dell is introducing a new notebook under a thousand dollars. The SmartStep 100N isn't configurable, but its specs are darned good for $949 - 1.06GHz Intel Celeron...
MORPHEUS TO ADD ANTI-COPYING TECHNOLOGY
Morpheus was looking like an ally in the fight to keep file trading alive. It didn't include spyware in its software, and its new software tapped into the truly decentralized...
SPYWARE
There's more and more ways to get "spyware" on your system - programs that monitor your web surfing and report back to third parties without your knowledge or consent. In some...
SEARCH ENGINES
This article starts out by explaining the different approaches chosen by Google, Yahoo, and AltaVista for indexing the Internet - and makes it easier to understand why Google is...
COPYRIGHT WARS UPDATE
The voices are getting louder on both sides of the copyright wars. Michael Greene, the president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, delivered a lecture...
YAHOO MAPS
Yahoo has created its own web site for maps, instead of relying on AOL's MapQuest. Here's an article about the corporate stuff, and here's the new Yahoo map service.
MORPHEUS/KAZAA UPDATE
There's a marvelous battle going on in the file sharing world. Allegations of denial of service attacks and conspiracies, record companies sniffing around and getting ready to...