You've got to change your evil ways...baby

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Outlook: Paid Inclusion Needs to Change
its Ways

Outlook: Paid Inclusion Needs to Change
its Ways 12/26/2003 05:25 PM
Internet.com Dec 26 2003 4:10PM ET

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel 04/16/2004 07:45 AM
Sidney Blumenthal: Bush's press conference shows just how ill-informed he is about Iraq 4/15 .. Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel .. piece

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Meg talks about how times change, people
change, webl0gs change but some things
endure

Meg talks about how times change, people
change, webl0gs change but some things
endure 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

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Harnessing Evil for the power of...
well, less evil

Harnessing Evil for the power of...
well, less evil 06/05/2005 11:55 PM
There are days I think the $WORK_PROJECT is an exercise in extended programming irony. The parrot code my compiler generates for $WORK_LANGUAGE makes heavy use of continuations. Really heavy use of continuations, to the point where reports are taking (and discarding) three continuations per record plus another two or three per page of the output. For a language which doesn't have functions, blocks, or lexical variables, and whose idea of sophisticated control flow is goto or gosub to bare labels. Go figure....

Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy

Free baby photo trojan gets new moms to
sell baby-privacy 04/04/2005 06:24 AM
Cory Doctorow: A friend of mine worked at Procter and Gamble when they hit on the idea of giving away baskets of baby-related freebies to new moms. The idea was that a couple days after the family went home and they needed more diapers, mom would send dad out with the package from the freebies and say, "More like these, please." It's pretty clever, and I'm cool with it -- especially now that the whole thing is handled through brokers who take products from a variety of vendors, with input from maternity wards.

That, I think, is a pretty good way of marketing to new families. It doesn't compromise privacy, it gives them something they need, and it doesn't force them or lock them in. It's informative, useful, and respectful (provided that the marketing makes it clear that there's no medical endorsement of these products).

Compare that to this: a service that sneakily gets moms to agree to a "free baby photo" while they're signing all their necessary medical forms on the morning of their delivery. The company that takes the picture then sells your contact info to anyone who'll buy it.

On the morning of the delivery, the nurse hands a sheaf of forms to the mother-to-be. Buried within is a release form offering a free portrait of the new baby. Mom is wired to three different machines, having her pulse and blood pressure measured automatically while two others sensors detect uterine contractions and the baby’s heart rate and another chattering electromechanical behemoth plots a seismograph of both...

...[T]he photo enterprise is run by a third party, Growing Family. They’ll shoot a picture of your munchkin, in exchange for his or her name and birthdate and your full name and address...

Growing Family will use your information from time to time to promote additional products, services, rewards and special offers from Growing Family Network and its select Network Partners.

Another friend of mine had his baby daughter die from crib-death a few weeks after she was born. For years afterward, he and his wife got a steady stream of marketing materials, including ghastly "birthday cards" from marketers who'd bought the information that they'd had a baby, but never received the message that the baby had died. Needless to say, when their next baby was born, they never, ever bought products from the companies that ghoulishly continued to market to their dead daughter. Link (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys

Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys 04/12/2005 05:55 AM
Evil Man in Black and His Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good Guys .. Permalink

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Dividend change doesn't change
Microsoft's lofty status

Dividend change doesn't change
Microsoft's lofty status 11/04/2003 09:54 AM
Chicago Tribune Nov 4 2003 8:23AM ET

IRC is Evil

IRC is Evil 05/06/2004 12:00 AM
Anytime there is a relatively new mode of communication, its blamed for all things conceivable. A NY Times article takes aim at IRC as a breeding ground for file sharing, child porn and, god forbid, hackers. It specifically takes aim...

Evil or Not Too Evil?

Evil or Not Too Evil? 04/14/2004 01:15 PM
Our order processor, eSellerate (part of MindVision) decided to add a new "feature" to our store called the eSellerate Download...

Do Be Evil

Do Be Evil 05/13/2004 02:15 AM
Google To Start Selling Banner Adverts From the that-didn't-take-too-long-department, Google's ad sales VP Tim Armstrong says Google will now start selling graphical banner adverts. One concession to their old mores is that, for now, the banner adverts will only appear on affiliated websites running their AdSense referral program (as does MeFi), and there is an opt-out. However... "We have no plans to show images on Google.com", said Mr. Armstrong "but we are not opposed to it".

To Evil!

To Evil! 09/17/2004 12:36 AM
Danny O'Brien: To Evil! "How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free software hacking world? I have decided to evaluate those involved in our so-called industry in terms of a battle between good and evil."

NYT says IRC is evil

NYT says IRC is evil 05/06/2004 04:36 AM

The New York Times has an article about how evil IRC is.

New York Times

Still, I.R.C. perhaps most closely resembles the cantina scene in "Star Wars'': a louche hangout of digital smugglers, pirates, curiosity seekers and the people who love them (or hunt them). There seem to be I.R.C. channels dedicated to every sexual fetish, and I.R.C. users speculate that terrorists also use the networks to communicate in relative obscurity.

Dvorak's ragging on chat and IM too.

Give me a break. Are people running out of new technologies to bash?

via Ross Mayfield

Die You Evil Bug

Die You Evil Bug 06/09/2004 07:08 PM

Oh That Evil IRC

Oh That Evil IRC 05/06/2004 02:53 AM
Admittedly, I haven't used IRC in about a decade, but I'm still a bit surprised to see the NY Times write up a whole article describing just how evil IRC is. After reading the article, you can almost count down the days before some politicians talk about investigating this "IRC thing." Is it my imagination or is IRC just a technology that can be used for chatting? Most of the article talks about all the terrible stuff that is done on IRC in a way that does its best to blame the technology. They practically apologize for the few times they try to mention non-evil things that IRC is used for, as if they can't believe that anyone would dare defend such an evil monstrosity.

Am I Evil?

Am I Evil? 06/25/2004 10:27 AM
Coincidence or contortion? Ivan Panin deciphered a numeric code in the Bible. Known as Gematria, the 'code' implies the Bible could not have been written without Holy assistance. Panin offered an open challenge for someone to create text using a similar pattern, yet no one was able to create one(nor tried).

However many people doubt the authenticity of the code though. The code is found in the same verses using different translations. It is also claimed that Panin manufactured his own translations to create this mathematical phenomenon.

Whether or not you believe, you can determine how good or evil any text or website is.

More about evil-or-not

More about evil-or-not 03/23/2005 08:15 AM

Yesterday, late in the afternoon, I wrote a bit about evil, and how unfortunate it is that this word has entered discourse in the blogosphere. I think we can trace it back to the Google goal of not being evil, an idea that's run its course, and should be stricken from their corporate philosophy. Google is no more or less evil than any other company, has no basis to claim a moral superiority, and should openly cancel it. And if they won't remove the hex, let me offer a new law of the Internet, a corollary to Godwin's Law. "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of it becoming about evil approaches one." And I'd add, that the length of time is shorter, but the effect on discourse is the same. It stops all rational discussion immediately.

ARM: The Non-Evil Monopolist

ARM: The Non-Evil Monopolist 07/10/2004 05:01 AM

The New Mask Of Evil

The New Mask Of Evil 07/24/2004 02:21 PM
Rubies is showing off new mask of Darth Vader's helmet at Comic-Con. This should be out just in time for Halloween.

The Queen of All Evil

The Queen of All Evil 04/25/2004 08:52 PM
The Queen of All Evil .. new digs

qoae.net
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The Evil Spider mEn!

The Evil Spider mEn! 06/30/2004 06:09 PM
Spiderman as a villian! Just to keep the trend for the day going.. (Via I-mockery by way of Fark)

Labyrinth Of Evil

Labyrinth Of Evil 07/19/2004 03:03 AM
Next January, Del Rey Books will release Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil, a new novel that ties directly into the beginning of Episode III. With access to detailed information from Lucasfilm, author James Luceno details Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi's last mission together during the Clone Wars, as the Jedi track down Darth Sidious. The events in this novel will dovetail with the events in the third season of Cartoon Network's micro-series and Dark Horse's upcoming Obsession comic book series. Click on the thumbnail above for more details, including an early first look at the book's cover.

In the Face of Evil

In the Face of Evil 09/07/2004 09:34 PM

Britt Blaser: Paying For Others' Sins. What do you do with the information that several hundred children have been killed or wounded to make a point?

Evil Thoughts

Evil Thoughts 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

Intel has been making denials about the DRM system embedded in the latest Pentium D processor.

Now, what if Intel is not confirming the DRM not because it isn't there, or it wanted security through obscurity, but because Steve Jobs told Intel not to say anything?

:-)

Spam is EVIL!!!!!!

Spam is EVIL!!!!!! 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
Some interesting results from the Transatlantic Consumer Dialog's survey on spam. 21,000 people responded, from 36 countries.


Perhaps the scariest one is that 52% number. Spam is becoming a serious drag on the Internet economy. Not just the direct time and resources it sucks up, but its indirect effects in discouraging people from using email and the Web.

Evil for dummies.

Evil for dummies. 03/19/2003 10:28 PM
Just in case you're not sure how to be evil... You can get help. 8 easy steps to help you become evil.

Evil geeks

Evil geeks 09/14/2004 02:49 PM
Cory Doctorow: Danny "Evil" O'Brien has written an hilarious column in (mock) celebration of the world's most evil geeks:

How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free software hacking world? For most of them, there's no income to be appraised, there's no stock market valuation to watch. What value can you give to these contributors, who work without care of reward, except maybe all those groupies hanging out at the stage door of the Sourceforge ftp servers?

Well, I guess you could review their software or something. Sadly, I suffer from a debilitating illness (which I shall not mention here) that tragically precludes me from doing actual research. So, instead, I have decided to evaluate those involved in our so-called industry in terms of what we all, I think, see it as.

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The Intentionality of Evil

The Intentionality of Evil 06/24/2005 09:52 PM

Eudora 6.1 is evil

Eudora 6.1 is evil 04/19/2004 07:07 PM
Paul Szabo (Apr 19 2004)

Return of the evil Net

Return of the evil Net 04/19/2004 01:38 PM
A News.com stor y today includes the quote from Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, explaining his opposition to a municipal broadband network:

This reminds me of the media coverage of the Internet around 1995.  A good percentage of the stories were focused on the dangers of online porn, privacy violations, and other threats the Net posed to truth and decency.  Sure, many of those issues were and are real.  But the tenor of the coverage suggested that the Net was a cesspool of filth, with harms exceeding its benefits. 

I thought we were beyond that point.  But now we seem to be back to a similar discourse, with a twist.  The threat is that if you give people better connectivity, they'll use it to -- gasp -- share files!  This is another example of the criminalization of intellectual property law that I discussed two posts ago.  It's also the epitome of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater." 

Evil Twin

Evil Twin 02/01/2005 08:35 PM

Evil Twin (via Dave Winer) Wi-Fi vulnerability is another example of typical boneheaded security designer's mindset: single-side authentication.  While Wi-Fi users have to identify themselves to protected Wi-Fi routers, routers don't have to identify themselves to the users.

Storms of Evil

Storms of Evil 04/13/2004 08:35 AM
Pulling Source, and GPL

Google: Be a Little Evil

Google: Be a Little Evil 12/30/2004 09:08 AM
Technology Review Dec 30 2004 1:14PM GMT

"Mom, what are asses of evil?"

"Mom, what are asses of evil?" 09/02/2004 10:09 AM
Protesters have taken over my Manhattan neighborhood. But how do I explain their signs -- let alone the dismal state of the world -- to my 9-year-old son?

Possible Google IPO - Is it Evil?

Possible Google IPO - Is it Evil? 04/24/2004 03:54 PM
Search Engine Journal Apr 24 2004 8:09PM GMT

SINA Evil?

SINA Evil? 07/28/2004 09:27 AM
Investing in China's risky, but if you hear no evil and speak no evil, maybe SINA can't be evil.

The Axis of Just as Evil

The Axis of Just as Evil 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
This made me laugh out loud. It's allegedly written by John Cleese, but it turns out that it originally came from Satirewire. "Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the "Axis of Evil," Libya, China, and Syria today announced they had formed the "Axis of Just as Evil," which they said would be more evil than that stupid Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address. Axis of Evil members, however, immediately dismissed the new axis as having, for starters, a really dumb name. "Right. They are Just as Evil...in their dreams!" declared North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. "Everybody knows we're the best evils... best at being evil...we're the best."

flash is evil?

flash is evil? 03/11/2003 02:00 PM
while doing some research on a topic i'll post after this one, i came across the "flash is evil" page....

Pure Evil

Pure Evil 08/13/2004 03:30 AM
This Flash game kinda drove me nuts and I never got it right once. (turn off your sound. the game don't need it and there's some cheesiness) {click games them m3 or m3 expert if you're a glutton for punishment}

Sergey: Don't be evil.

Sergey: Don't be evil. 12/14/2002 08:15 PM
Wired: Google vs. Evil. Discusses Sergey Brin's role as the "moral compass" of Google, making sure they aren't evil....
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HTML Tip: 5 Ways To Get The Bugs Out

HTML Tip: 5 Ways To Get The Bugs Out 01/10/2003 04:46 AM
Net Mechanic Jan 10 2003 3:29AM ET

HTML Tip: 5 Ways For Debugging Your Web
Page

HTML Tip: 5 Ways For Debugging Your Web
Page 12/21/2002 02:15 PM
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HTML Tip: Ten Easy Ways To Break Your
Web Page

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Rise of Evil

Rise of Evil 06/25/2004 06:43 PM
Project is up and running!

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