This one is too easy to make fun of, we all had doubts about that little logo proclaiming readiness for Vista.  Instead, I will simply send you off to Slashdot to read the article.

Wow.  That’s about all I can say initially.  I am sure I don’t have to explain anything about Sun or MySQL to most of my visitors, and anyone that knows me already knows that I am a hardcore user and supporter of both.  I don’t know though, if this announcement is good news or not.  I think only time will tell on that one.  Really, it all will come down to what Sun decides to do with MySQL.  They have an opportunity to help MySQL grow and become even bigger … but then again, they can drop the ball and make it flounder as well.  I seem to remember a note a while back about Sun buying PostgreSQL too, I’ll have to look back and see if that ever came about, and if so, what ended up happening with it.  For now we’ll all wait and see!  Read more here …

Another goodie from Slashdot:

“folks at GNU Citizen have been researching UPNP Vulnerabilities in home routers, and have produced a flash swf file capable of opening open ports into your network simply by visiting an unfortunate URL. Looks like Firefox & Safari users are safe for now.”

Wow.

This article from Slashdot ought to get you thinking! Read this:

“National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is currently helping to draft a new Cyber-Security Policy that could make the debate over warrantless wiretaps seem like a petty squabble. The new policy would allow the government to access to the content of any email, file transfer, or web search.”

Dang. Don’t that just sound like a whole lot of fun?

In an article on Slashdot, we find that Network Solutions (NSI) has been caught registering every domain name that users check for availability from their whois service.  So, if you check to see if foo.com is available, and it is but you don’t register it immediately, they register it out from under you.  Nice job there NSI, way to provide a good service to the customer.  I have long suspected that someone was doing this, but I didn’t think the registrar was.  Wow.  Just goes to show that my aversion to dealing with this low life company was not incorrect.

Read more here …

It seems that the folks at GraffitiCMS, who make a competitor to WordPress, are aligning with Presidential hopefuls and slinging mud to promote their product even though it isn’t out of beta yet. I found the article here, I am not going to give them the satisfaction of linking to the original. Let’s take a walk though their arguments, shall we?

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