nice things

One of the complaints that we hear often from various publishers is the idea that, without copyright, other sites could simply copy all content.

In fact, this is the big complaint we keep hearing from newspapers these days -- the idea that they do all this expensive "reporting," and then along comes some "blog" that just copies the work, with a bit of commentary and gets all the traffic.

I tend to point out that this is a silly position to take. The thing is I say that even though I've experienced being on the "other" side of this discussion, and not with a smaller site, but a larger one.

Mixed Signals: "Amid the infinite number of monkeys typing away about Windows vs Google vs Chrome vs Microsoft vs Apple vs blah - can we take a break at some point, please?

- some nice things happen. As in, I bought a printer and it worked."

One of the nice things about Linux — but by no means the most important — is the enhanced security that comes along with running it.

That doesn't mean Linux never runs into security issues, though, and this week, the vulnerability in question centers around a nifty little service called udev.

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Hello, oh great and powerful Adobe people.

Thank you so much for releasing Flash Player 10 beta 2 for Linux.

Thanks even more for (finally) building in support for video4linux2 Webcam technology. You have no idea how much we appreciate that.

The only problem is that many (if not most) of us can't use it. You see, it crashes our browsers within seconds.