Maybe I am just more uninformed than others, but this explanation of how marketers found a way around the usual delete the cookies routine using flash left me fuming. Especially so after I ran: find . -iname *.sol on my home directory and found circa 50 entries of these so-called super-cookies.

According to some sources, all of them, for now, are stored as these sol files in a special directory under .macromedia. In addition, I found a couple in .gnash/SharedObjects dir.

I hope this helps to spread the awareness a bit.

I hope Stagger Lee finds the bloody bastards who make that dung ;-) .

Does anybody else think Wheezy is a stupid name for a high-performance OS?

Another ingenious intellectual property lobby embarrass itself publicly:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property

Microsoft Patents Sudo
Nov 12, 2009

A further patent by Microsoft brings the software patent discussion to a renewed boil: the software giant has claims on "sudo."

At regular intervals Microsoft issues reminders that Linux and other free software allegedly infringes 235 of its patents. Now sudo could become number 236. Sudo is short for "super user do" and familiar to every Linux and Unix-like operating system users as a way to apply root privileges to a process....

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Microsoft-Patents-Sudo

But then again:
Microsoft 'Sudo' Patent No Danger To Unix:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/opensource/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221700117&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_Software

Good to hear about things like this

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/eu-takes-uk-to-court-over-internet-privacy-1812263.html