Bad Code Makes Me Thirsty
Sometimes when you’re whipping up them sites you need to use a table. Sometimes you need to use tables. And sometimes you want to be really, really, really sure the table you want is the table you get:
<table border=0 width=”582″ cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
<table width=582 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
<tr>
I’m having a hard time even conceiving of how this [...]
Sony Rootkits its DRM, Part III
I bet somewhere deep inside Sony someone is regretting very, very much their decision to put DRM on their CDs and infect their customer’s computers with it. Somewhere inside Sony someone said “Yeah, I know how we can do that…” and thus was born the beginning of their nightmare.
Sony is now being probed by [...]
Escapa!
Keebler pointed out this simple yet compelling game called Escapa! which was entertaing for about… the minute or so that it took to meet and exceed the challenge on the game’s site:
Click and hold the red square.
Now, move it so that you neither touch the walls nor get hit by any of the blue blocks.
If [...]
Going to the movies like a wanted criminal
James Reid is incensed (and rightly so) at the treatment he received at a preview screening of Derailed:
…the line was moving slowly because they were asking
customers to raise their arms so that they could be
electronically frisked with a metal detector, and
women’s purses were being searched by uniformed
security guards. Try to remember that this is
Toronto, [...]
Sony Rootkits its DRM, Part II
(A follow-up to this post).
In response to the onslaught of criticism they’re receiving for infecting customer’s computers with their DRM (digital rights management) Sony has released an update:
This Service Pack removes the cloaking technology component that has been recently discussed in a number of articles published regarding the XCP Technology used on SONY BMG content [...]
Bad Code Make Me Thirsty
Welcome to a new installment on this site called “Bad Code Make Me Thirsty”, a celebration of plain ol’ badly-written code. Most of it will probably be found code but every now and then I have no doubt some of my own will show up.
To inaugurate this feature: two pieces of code found mere lines [...]
Sony Rootkits its Digital Rights Management
This is pretty low, even by major media organization standards.
Mark Russinovich played his newly-bought Van Zant CD without noticing that it was a copy-protected disk. Later, while running rountine maintenance on his computer he discovered evidence of a rootkit: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far.
Note: A rootkit is a effectively a [...]