Maszman Speaks!

I can see why so many peo­ple don’t bother to vote any­more. The coun­try is run by and for cor­po­ra­tions and there doesn’t seem to be any­thing you can do about it.

And so it begins. The Rochester area has been hit hard lately, and the bad news keeps coming.

In Vir­ginia, the Hen­rico County Pub­lic Schools are sell­ing used iBooks for $50. If you’re going and would be will­ing to pick me up one, I’ll pay 4x the price for your trou­ble. Get in touch via the usual methods.

Still work­ing in man­u­fac­tur­ing? Kiss your job good­bye.

Okay, folks, lis­ten up. DRM doesn’t work. All it does is annoy your cus­tomers. The “bad guys” are barely inconvenienced.

Chances are, the bits that made up this page you’re read­ing came to you via a Cisco net­work router (or many of them). Cisco’s routers have their own oper­at­ing sys­tem, IOS. Like any soft­ware, IOS isn’t per­fect. As a mat­ter of fact, a researcher found a fairly seri­ous flaw in IOS. But it looks like Cisco is try­ing to silence him. He ended up quit­ting his job in order to deliver a paper on the flaw at a conference.