Reflections on trusting TRUSTe (2006/07/20)
So, there’s this thing, called TRUSTe. They “certify” privacy. What’s that mean? Well, it means about the same thing for privacy that a diploma mill does for education. It’s not that a TRUSTe logo tells you nothing; it’s that it is a good indication that you are dealing with someone who could not otherwise hope to convince anyone that they would be safe.
[read more...]How I stopped liking the Red Cross (2006/06/29)
Okay, so a while back, Studio Whipping Boy did a charity drive. We picked the American Red Cross, because hey, everyone knows they’re legit, right?
[read more...]Suncoast: Shut up and eat your spam. (2006/06/12)
I’ll say what can be said in their defense: It wasn’t technically illegal.
[read more...](214) 279-0990 (2006/05/12)
So, here’s the thing. You can spoof caller ID. There are several ways to spoof it, but all of them depend on the cooperation, at some level, of the phone company.
[read more...]MoveOn's "email tax" meme considered harmful. (2006/04/25)
One sees, occasionally, reproductions of a heartfelt, probably sincere, dire warning about the coming Email Tax, in which AOL will soon destroy all good and innocent people by forcing them to pay email. It’s censorship, of course, because it’s backed by secret cabals of Republicans wearing special tinfoil hats which let them know when to falsely report the mail as spam.
[read more...]The statute of limitations. (2006/04/15)
Sex allegations oust Gloucester Catholic teacher, read the headlines, and her heart skipped a beat. Had he finally been busted?
[read more...]Ready-made child-sized coffins. (2006/04/13)
That’s the Problem of Evil, right there, in a nutshell: Child-sized coffins are ready-made. They don’t need to be specially commissioned.
[read more...]Woo! I'm high-functioning! (2006/04/11)
So, a friend of mine recently put up some self-scoring Asperger’s tests, implemented based on some tests he foeund as PDF documents.
[read more...]No! The one where I try to pick him up and there's blood. (2006/04/07)
My younger nephew, Gabriel, died last night.
[read more...]Small developers with really good games (2006/03/21)
It turns out that the budget doesn’t make the game.
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