Tag Archives: Tech

I’m in favor of stopping botnets and all but remotely deleting old copies of Tor from users’ machines? I don’t see how Microsoft avoids law suits and criminal complaints. They doubtless have some obscure terms-of-service item covering this but if … Continue reading →

Via Jean-Philippe Paradis, I was led to the Twitter meme/thread/hashtag #FiveWordTechHorrors. The idea is identify an especially egregious tech issue in five words. Some of my favorites: It’s a standard, like Windows We emailed you your password Congress is drafting … Continue reading →

I’ve written about UTF-8 before and recounted the story of its invention one night over dinner by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. Now Tom Scott over at audible.com has a wonderful video on UTF-8, which he calls the world’s greatest … Continue reading →

I’ve read several times that PDF is “just compressed PostScript” but I recently learned that that’s not true. David Evans has a nice article over at Adobe on PostScript vs. PDF. Evans starts off by describing what PostScript is and … Continue reading →

Two weeks ago I wrote about power management in electronic devices. The thrust of that post was that because battery technology hasn’t advanced very much it was necessary to work on the problem at the other end by making our … Continue reading →

I came across two articles today—one looking backward, one looking forward—that illustrate the incredible progress we’re making in power management and battery life for our electronic devices. This is important because battery technology isn’t making tremendous strides (although there have … Continue reading →