Who does Google know that you know? - Boing Boing

It's unsettling to click a link and find that you're connected to thousands of people without your knowledge, even though that's sort of the purpose of social networking tools on the Internet.


Who does Google know that you know? - Boing Boing

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Meaty Spam in my Inbox

Judging by my spam folder, there's an audience for secretly capturing my hard meaty stick. Who are these people, anyway?

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Stand Up For Net Neutrality

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AP and Woot®

What goes around comes around sometimes. In this case Woot® has advised the AP that since the AP took content from the Woot® website and used it within an AP story, AP owes Woot® payment for said use, given that AP is very aggressive about holding other organizations to the very same standards.

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The Internet...Has A Whorehouse In It (Lord Have Mercy On Our Souls)

It's comforting that we're hell-bent on eliminating Internet-facilitated prostitution, since officials have been so spectacularly successful in eradicating hookers from our street corners and hotel bars.

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Will The Internet Stop on May 5?

No, this isn't a movie about how the Mayan calendar stopped on May 5 so therefore the Internet will stop working. The Mayans were good, but they didn't invent the Internet.

Al Gore invented the Internet.

But seriously, folks. There's some concern in techie circles that the planned May 5 transition of the 13 main DNS root servers to DNSSEC might blow something up. It's unlikely, although any change implementation introduces risk.

If you're an ISP running antique hardware or software, or if you use applications that make specific DNS calls, you could see some problems, which is a good reason to not do either of those things.

That said, I could be wrong, but I'm not worried. If the Internet stops working, you won't be able to send me scathing emails or come here and post angry comments.

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