Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label censorship. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Wake Up

Someone, somewhere, is complaining about the offensive content of the internet. And sending cease and desist letters, to chilling effect.

Someone, somewhere, is wishing a file format they need to process was documented. People write books about things lacking documentation. Like Windows 2000, and its assorted development tools. Someone (who?) may be programming Windows applications in assembler.

John Levine's Linkers and Loaders book is available online in draft form.

Finally, online hex to binary/decimal converters are useful.

Monday, 8 December 2008

Securitron (Police State 2000)

Who knew that some sort of inscrutable blacklist of forbidden websites is maintained, and used, to restrict internet access in the UK? And that it'd be used to ban the image of a heavy metal album cover?

And that there is a news spin off of Wikipedia?