Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, October 5, 2005

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Staying anonymous in the internet jungle: "Criminals pursuing identity theft, phishing scams, and spam rings are running rampant on the internet. Just a few years ago our major concerns were more to do with securing servers and avoiding virus outbreaks. Now anonymity and protecting one's information has become paramount."


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Mind the Gaps - Intelligent design as an answer to all life's great conundrums: "The problem with science has always been that each new discovery unleashes thousands of new questions and ambiguities. So really, the more we discover new stuff, the stupider we get. Clearly, that isn't working. ID says we shouldn't bother ourselves with resolving scientific inconsistencies or untangling puzzles. We should recognize that what God really wants is for us just to stop learning."


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On Sunday I finished my article about blogging in Finland. Having my left hand in a cast due to the bicycle accident made writing difficult, but somehow I managed to finish the writing. In the end I had quite a lot of ideas which I didn't manage to include in the article, but this always happens. Somewhere you have to draw the line - what to include and what not.


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A fake freedom: "Here is a game: let's say you have one day to download your pictures out of Flickr and your mail out of GMail. Can you? Do you even have access to the data? Do you still really own it?"