Archive for January, 2011

Facebook address/phone visible to apps now?

Monday, January 17th, 2011

If you’re actually dumb enough to put your home address and phone number into Fbook in the first place, you probably want to be careful which apps you run, because address and phone are now available to apps. Just another uncomfortable reminder that advertisers are the real customers; Facebook users are the product.

nVidia 260.99 + external display

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

The nVidia 260.99 and (beta) 265 series drivers can not detect external display devices (analog CRT) on my laptop (ASUS G50Vt) running Windows 7 64. What a day. Rolling back to the 256 release fixes the problem, but why should I have to do this? 260 is a whql release from three months ago! Er, […]

Stochastic Terrorism

Friday, January 14th, 2011

Stochastic terrorism: the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.