Cringely talks about the DMCA and other things while inviting you to Steal This Column. Read the last paragraphs closely.

Why do I bother?

I don’t always agree with Dave Winer, but he’s on target with his take on Joel Spolsky. Of course, both of them are pundits, and isn’t it the job of pundits to make the Big Statements?

Cam of CamWorld has been more than emotionally under the weather. It sounds bad, but it could have been worse.

There’s still life left in the PowerPC. Apple and IBM are working together on a 64-Bit CPU, the GigaProcessor Ultralite (GPUL). Now all Apple has to do is build motherboards that don’t choke the processor, and look out baby!

This is old, but interesting nonetheless. It seems Apple has an update to OSX 10.2 “Jaguar”. That’s not earthshaking, but they posted a document online, AppleCare Document: 107036, before announcing the update. Lots of good fixes and additions, in any case.

Mozilla is reported to be susceptible to a privacy exploit that can reveal the last page you visited. This applies to all Mozilla-based browsers.

Dan Bricklin, creator of VisiCalc, has written Why Johnny can’t program.

Be honest, you’ve probably received the famed Nigerian email scam at least once. If you even bothered to read it (it’s a hoot) you more than likely didn’t think of responding (and you certainly didn’t take it seriously, right?). Luckily, someone has come up with a nifty response that pretty much nails it.

How do you know a operating system is popular? When crackers develop worms for it. The latest exploit against Linux is called Slapper and it affects OpenSSL installations. Find out how to fix your vulnerability here and more about Slapper here.

If you run a file sharing app (Morpheus, Kazaa, Gnutella, etc.), your ISP may be shutting you down because of your excessive bandwidth usage. Your ISP has to pay for packets that go beyond it’s network boundries, so it has an incentive to keep traffic local as possible. Given that most ISP’s charge by the [...]

Dan Gillmor lays down the three issues that will shape the Internet going forward. This is a follow-on to a previous column on the decisions that made the Internet what it is today.