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22 Jul 2013
The other day I got an odd flyer in the mail,
sent from Singapore,
advertising a $1,000 six volume reference set about
wellbeing, which is apparently an academic subject these days.
(Click on the label to see the whole thing.)
This is a rather odd thing to arrive in my mailbox, since it is not a
topic in which I have ever shown the least bit of interest.
But a little squinting at the label reveals what happened.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/ependrl.html
20 Jul 2013
At its meeting in Durban, ICANN signed contracts with the applicants
for four new top level domains.
The new domains are شبÙØ©, which means "web" in Arabic,
онлайн and ÑайÑ, which mean "online" and "site" in
Russian, and 游æ, which means "game" in Chinese.
They should give us an interesting hint about the future of the
new TLDs, because all four are utterly, totally, generic.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/newfour.html
18 Jul 2013
Arthur in L.A. asks:
Why do online accounts like the one at my alarm company keep adding extra security questions?
The choices always require either a subjective answer ("What's your
favorite movie?") or, in a two-person household, more than one answer ("In
what city did your parents meet?")
We all know that passwords are a terrible security mechanism. People
forget them, and bad guys are ever better at guessing them. So there are
basically three ways to authenticate a person: something you know, such as
a password, something you have, such as a driver's license, and something
you are, a biometric. Two-factor authentication schemes are much more
secure than single factor.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/cargocult.html
05 Jul 2013
You've probably heard about the Winklevoss twins, who got a great deal of money from
Facebook in a 2008 lawsuit.
Now they have bought up a vast number of bitcoins—reportedly about 1% of all of them—and presumably
want to make bug bucks in the bitcoin market, but to succeed they need some suckers to help them out.
They recently filed
a preliminary
prospectus with the SEC for the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust, which is intended to be an exchange traded
fund (ETF),
Felix Salmon
blogged
about the reasons that it would be a terrible investment if the SEC
allowed it which they probably won't,
but I haven't seen comments on the key fact that this ETF appears primarily a way for the Winklevii
to unload their bitcoins on a large pool of greater fools.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Money/winklebit.html
01 Jul 2013
The endless lawsuit by the Authors Guild (which purports
to represent authors, no longer including me), against
Google moved another small step toward completion today.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Copyright_Law/noclass.html
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