The Clever Shark

SCO claims hundreds of thousands of lines copied into Linux. It’s a shame they invalidated their claim by distributing it all under the GPL though. Then again that new claim also comes without direct evidence unless you’re willing to sign your soul over to their devil and sign an NDA, surprise surprise.

EFF counsel: what kind of crack is SCO smokin’? Well he didn’t actually say that, but in the end it’s the same thing really.

First class action ensues following the Northeast Blackout. Litigation is America’s national pastime, after all.

Teen prostitution articles may sell magazines and papers, but what’s behind the scary pronouncements? We’re not sure, but apparently actual numbers and figures are nowhere to be found, leading one to wonder “bullshit or not?”

Al-Qaeda: we caused the Northeast blackout. No doubt they’ll claim responsibility for this year’s frequent thunderstorms as well.

Weekly Standard: the BBC is the problem. All this license fee money, and for what?

Report a vulnerability, go to jail (at least in the U.S.) It’ll get filed as a side effect of letting retarded monkeys (in Congress) make bad laws.

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Those google ads continue to puzzle me. At this point some are correct, and some are old — you get different ads depending on whether you’re coming in through www.clevershark.com or clevershark.com, for instance. The ads also take quite some time in catching up to the content. I may have to look into putting together a sort of “hybrid ads” system where some articles would have Google ads while others have other ads where other ads would be more appropriate. I have to say it’s a little frustrating.

I thought it might be a good idea to have some sort of “google ping” which an AdSense customer could use to notify google that his/her site has changed, as this would be mutually beneficial to both the advertiser and Google (which gets to sell more ads or increase rates). Pretty much something outlined in Tristan Louis’s article on the subject save that I see this primarily as an added value to the AdSense proposition (especially for sites who don’t see so much traffic), whereas Tristan sees this more as a general-purpose tool for Google.

Cringely about Macs, productivity and outsourcing. He has some interesting points.