Friday, February 22, 2002

Computer News: Microsoft Admits XP Media Player Spies on Users Technical reviews and media reports indicate that Windows Media Player 8 is designed to track which DVD titles users watch on their PCs by contacting a Microsoft Web server and transmitting an electronic fingerprint for the movie and a cookie for the PC. comment  4:54:20 PM

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Cruel and Unusual, An Interview with Connie Williams, an Inmate at Marysville Reformatory for Women: "Prison is cruel and unusual. I should be in rehab. In county I bunked next to a woman that murdered her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. All I did was drug myself into numbness and ruin my life. I don't belong with half these people. A lot of the people in here are addicts and didn't hurt anyone. Some of them stole shit to afford their habit but that's the extent of it. " comment  1:31:24 PM