Open-Source, Parasitic Computing, Altavista, Surveillance & Information War
Governments around the world have found a new rallying cry — 'Software libre!' — and Microsoft is working overtime to quell it. A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option.
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings — disguised as mice — are using us to compute The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, And Everything. Now earthling scientists have roped unsuspecting web servers into a similar — albeit slightly less ambitious — exercise in parasitic computing.
Regional Altavista search sites have not added any new listings for more than four months.
Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia has spoken out against recommendations that could see Internet service providers forced to put their customers under constant surveillance.
The United States government agencies that once tried to breach the Iron Curtain with radio broadcasts are taking the information war to the Internet, hoping to finance an American-based computer network designed to thwart attempts by the Chinese government to censor the web for users in China.
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings — disguised as mice — are using us to compute The Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, And Everything. Now earthling scientists have roped unsuspecting web servers into a similar — albeit slightly less ambitious — exercise in parasitic computing.
Regional Altavista search sites have not added any new listings for more than four months.
Civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia has spoken out against recommendations that could see Internet service providers forced to put their customers under constant surveillance.
The United States government agencies that once tried to breach the Iron Curtain with radio broadcasts are taking the information war to the Internet, hoping to finance an American-based computer network designed to thwart attempts by the Chinese government to censor the web for users in China.