Entries from October 2009

Ad nonsense

October 27, 2009

419 is the section of the Nigerian criminal code dealing with the email scams we all see in our inbox from time to time. I did a Google search on “419 scam” and found some information. But in addition, Google Ad Sense advertising returned this jewel:

FireFox browser trashes Windows users

October 17, 2009

A tiny group of FireFox developers have pushed out a blocklist that automatically installs itself without permission, that cannot be rejected and cannot be removed. And by so doing, they knowingly prevented mission critical applications based on Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation from working.
I think this unilateral action by FireFox is outrageous. What were they thinking?
[This [...]