Pupils and Porn and Games, Oh My. A Virginia school district is tightening security on over 11,000 iBooks after students downloaded porn and traded music and movie files. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]

Computers sold to schools should come with Spector and CompuTrace installed to monitor activity & track the computer if it’s missing or stolen. (BTW, I helped out with Spector & I’m working on the Mac version of CompuTrace)

I found www.yaywastaken.com in my referers page. Looks interesting.

The state of OS X Web browsers is my take on the strengths and weaknesses of the major browser choices as January draws to a close… [Mac Net Journal]

I still use IE most of the time, but I’m really starting to like Mozilla. Interestingly, although Netscape 6 feels really sluggish, Mozilla feels fast & responsive. Both render pages faster than almost any other browser, though.

On a digital privacy crusade. Internet security expert David Holtzman warns of the consequences of a digital society that’s polarized into two camps: “vanilla politicians” and security-obsessed “curmudgeons.” [CNET News.com]

Scott McNealy said, “Privacy is dead. Get over it.” He’s right–in the sense that privacy is complete control over your information. If you think of young college kids, the people who do everything online all the time, everything they’re doing leaves a digital footprint, and they won’t be able to sweep it away. They may be looking at their thesis papers 30 years from now. That’s pretty scary.

SJ Mercury: Government, Big Business battling another foe: liberty. Dan Gillmor. That was before Sept. 11, when so many Americans decided that liberty mattered far less than safety. Since then, Big Brother has reasserted his increasingly absolute right to snoop and pry and invade the deepest recesses of our bank accounts and private lives. [Tomalak’s Realm]

14300 ª January 30 7:46 AM. John Ashcroft is a-skeered of kitty-cats. Laughs like Nelson [MetaFilter]

What would he think of Cody? I’m sometimes afraid of Cody – he loves to pounce & attack me and he does the arched back ‘scaredy cat’ thing at the slightest provocation

14293 ª January 30 5:26 AM. Florida town casts out Satan If he’s thinking of visiting Florida’s west coast, Satan might want to steer clear of Inglis. The mayor of this small fishing village in Florida has declared the Prince of Darkness persona non grata — in essence, telling him to go to the devil. ROLF. [MetaFilter]

I’m getting so nervous about the move. I got the paperwork for my mortgage today and it’s sinking in just how much I’m going to pay over the next 30 years (assuming I live to be 70). I just barely scraped by with the downpayment and I still have the expense of actually moving.

On the other hand, I really hate paying over $800/month for a tiny apartment and not owning anything.

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