June 2009
4 posts
Kindle download policy clarified... mostly
KindleGate: Confusion Abounds Regarding Kindle Download Policy | Gear Diary
The long and short of it seems to be that, as promised, you can download a book as many times as you need to, but it can only be on a certain number of devices at a time. Usually, but not always, six.
As in, “Six readers ought to be enough for any book.”
DRM sucks, but okay, at least they’re playing...
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Is Internet Voting Safe?
Is Internet Voting Safe? The answer, of course, is not really. And it likely never will be in the way most folks imagine it. Here’s why:
Small-scale fraud is relatively easy with both paper ballots and electronic ballots. Look up any recent federal election for ample evidence of both.
But, as pervasive as it is, physical ballot fraud doesn’t scale well. It’s much harder to...
Amazon Recalling Some Kindle2s?
I got an email from Kindle support the other day, asking me to call them “at your earliest convenience.” Thinking that it was some kind of phishing attempt, I ignored it. But when they left a message on my home phone my curiousity got the better of me and I had them give me a call (via the Call Me feature of Amazon’s site).
The whole thing might be an experiment in how many...
Smart GMail Trick: Mute a Thread
You know those email threads which you don’t really care about, but which someone seems to post to every day for a week? You archive them, but they keep reappearing in your inbox with every new post.
Google calls this “the thread that just won’t die”, aka thread from hell.
Well, now you can silence them permanently by using GMail’s mute feature. View or select the...