The first half of that title could apply to so many things, but regarding the Fairpoint proposal, Vermont’s PSB found this: In rejecting the application,… Read More »Vermont Confuses Me (specifically re: Fairpoint)
Over on Slashdot, contributor BlueParrot brings up a good concern with the type of watermarking I advocated earlier this year in Watermark Me! – that… Read More »A Protocol for Mutual Trust in Digital Watermarking
I got this in my e-mail over the weekend: Dear Verizon New England Inc. Customer, Pending approval of the Maine, Vermont & New Hampshire public… Read More »Fairpoint Deal Closer?
Mailman has a pretty poor idea about what spam-proofing a mail archive means. Currently it makes bob@example.com into ‘bob at example.com’. Boy, the spider writers… Read More »Spam-proofing Mailman’s Pipermail Archives
For better or worse, the Ruby console doesn’t have a shell-like ‘history’ command. Here’s how to simulate it: Readline::HISTORY.to_a.map {|h| puts h} Gosh, this stuff… Read More »Printing the Ruby Console History
So I looked at my blog today and found 800+ trackback spams that Akismet had missed (typo bug?) and started to delete them manually. Then… Read More »Battling Trackback Spam at the Typo Console