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“Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including [more...]
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve never trusted free online service providers like Google or Yahoo! with any of my personal or confidential data.
And I have absolutely no interest in storing any of my data — confidential or not — “in the cloud.”
So, instead of using online applications that [more...]
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve been using personal computers since 1979, and I’ve been using Linux full-time instead of Linux since July of 2006.
Having been a DOS and Windows power user and support person since the early days, I’m really grateful that [more...]
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’m a staunch supporter of computer users’ privacy rights.
And it drives me crazy that an increasing number of those users are willing to trade the security and confidentiality of their private data for a little added convenience.
Many of you have written to tell me that you [more...]
oo-ee oo-ee ooooh — wa-wah-waa.
I’m sure that fans of classic films instantly recognized that as the opening notes of the theme song from the iconic 1967 Clint Eastwood spaghetti western.
Good luck trying to get it out of your head. It’s still in mine as I write this.
Anyway, here’s some good news about [more...]
How much do you trust your government?
Would you feel comfortable knowing that they can listen in on your private telephone and cell phone conversations?
Would it bother you to know that they can monitor your Internet browsing habits? [more...]
With everything that we’ve learned over the years about its never-ending list of serious security vulnerabilities, I find it really hard to believe that anyone would choose to run Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser any more.
Personally, I switched to Mozilla’s much-more-secure, free and open-source Firefox browser — first in Windows, and then in Linux — on the [more...]
Regular readers know that I began writing this Journal in October, 2003 — and that I’ve written a Journal post nearly every single day since then.
In this Journal, I’ve covered a wide variety of both technical and non-technical topics, as you can see in the Journal Tags section in the right column [more...]
I’m always looking for a good analogy/metaphor to use when I’m explaining Linux to people.
Here’s my latest one. I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought yet, so this will be an incomplete first draft of my initial thoughts, off the top of my head. I may leave it as it stands now, or I may end up refining it later on. [more...]