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About Tor
Tor, an innovation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a distributed network of virtual tunnels (you can think of it as a peer to peer network of proxy servers). Essentially data is transferred in encrypted form through multiple servers. It is very useful as a privacy measure because the data is encrypted and it’s [...]

Hot off the heel’s of the iTunes movie store and Amazon Unbox, Wal-Mart appears to be planning a digital movie download service of their own. And why wouldn’t they, when movies off iTunes cost less at retail than Wal-Mart has to pay at wholesale for their DVDs. Wal-Mart seems to be getting into a trend [...]

Steve Jobs just made a keynote today announcing a whole slew of iPod and iTunes related developments. A new aluminum iPod Shuffle will be released that is about the size of a belt buckle (and sports a belt clip). In addition, a new series of aluminum iPod Nanos will be released in multiple colors, with [...]

Mark Shuttleworth reports that a new team has been created to oversee the integration of new desktop effects into the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Specifically, this team is responsible for integrating XGL, AIGLX and Compiz into Ubuntu for ease of installation. This is definitely a good idea, because at the moment getting your native composited X [...]

Over at TechCrunch, Mike Arrington reports that Microsoft is coming out with a new YouTube clone called SoapBox. It appears as though this product will recieve the MSN branding, instead of the new Live branding that the MSN services are being changed to, which I find to be very inconsistent. The site will apparently be [...]

That’s right, DOCSIS 3.0 is a cable modem spec allowing for you to have a 100 megabit+ line to your home. Oh wait, did I say “allowing for you”? Sorry, I meant allowing the ISP’s the option of giving you, which, I might add, they’re very unlikely to take. DOCSIS 1.0 allowed for 38Mbps down/10Mbps [...]

Over at ShoeMoney, a reader is suing a commenter for slander. That’s right, the suit isn’t for an actual blog post, it’s for something posted in the comments. I don’t really know what to think about this, since neither the post nor the comment in question are mentioned anywhere on the blog. But isn’t this [...]

The Xubuntu blog has a tutorial on how to change Flash’s user agent version so that you can bypass those annoying gateway pages that say “You must have the latest version of Macromedia Flash to continue”. I used it and it worked great for the sites I wanted it for, now I don’t have to [...]

In part 2 of Engadget’s “The Lockdown” column, Marc Weber Tobias discusses the security of various types of locks, which ones can be defeated by bump keys, which one cannot, and why. The article is a very good read if you’re considering buying a new lock, as it discusses which locks can be bumped (or [...]

ICANN’s proposed domain name agreement removes price restrictions from registrars on domain names. From the announcement:
Lifting of Price Controls on Registry Services. Following extensive consideration and discussion, each of the proposed new .BIZ, .INFO and .ORG registry agreements provide for the lifting of price controls formerly imposed on the pricing of registry services. However, in [...]