Posts by D. H. McKee

Rambling on about garbage

It’s pretty quiet this morning at Cafe 1842. I’m typing away on my laptop from the corner table, mostly because...

Firefox undercut by security flaws

The Web browser seen by some PC users as the underdog that would upset Microsoft’s Internet Explorer may have run...

Hacking trail leads to Swedish teen

A Swedish teenager is being questioned over a daring internet attack that penetrated thousands of computer systems in the US,...

Pizza man sorry for bringing down Canada minister

A pizza shop owner who forced former Canadian immigration minister Judy Sgro to resign by claiming she had offered to...

Ex-marine claims nuclear weapons stored at Nfld. base

An American veteran who says he guarded a secret stash of nuclear weapons in Newfoundland claims his government would rather...

Apocalypse Soon

Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we’ve come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe during...

Schneier on Security

The United States is getting a national ID card. The REAL ID Act (text of the bill and the Congressional...

Sith Comes Up Short

The good news, based on playing the video-game version of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, is that...

DJ Spooky Raps About Remixing

DJ Spooky relies heavily on sampling in his work as a DJ and musician. So it shouldn’t be a surprise...

Junk Science: David Bellamy

David Bellamy’s inaccurate and selective figures on glacier shrinkage are a boon to climate change deniers. For the past three...