Archive for June, 2005

Hotmail will start fighting spam — starting with legitimate mail

Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology
If your e-mail does not have a Sender ID, Microsoft wants to junk your message.
This is nice. Starting this November, Microsoft will start marking legitimate mail as spam if the sender refuses to adopt their Sender ID technology. I don’t know whether my mails are tagged with the right information and frankly […]

Feed me Spread Firefox points ;)

Please click this button so that I earn Spread Firefox points. I know this is a shameless plug and I don’t quite know what to do with those points yet (just signed up… ), but hey, I guess it won’t hurt ;) . And I read they’re perhaps looking for developers for a new site, […]

Adblock Plus 0.5.8 verwacht rond 1 juli

Vandaag kreeg ik te horen dat Adblock Plus 0.5.8 rond 1 juli klaar zal zijn. Omdat ik tegelijkertijd het verzoek kreeg de vertaling bij te werken en ik deze net opgestuurd heb betekent dit dat deze extensie ook gelijk in ons aller moerstaal beschikbaar zal zijn. Bij het vertalen zag ik de interessante mogelijkheid om […]

Seagate to the rescue in an Orwellesque world…

This morning I read the newspaper. I read about the dutch police that slowly compromises our privacy. Sure, crime is a problem, but among the things I read were about face recognition (i.e. having yourself photographed in your car everytime you pass certain checkpoints), license plate recognition… keeping track of someone’s internet activities, mobile phone […]

I hear you, Richard!

There are times that I’m ashamed to be a European. Especially today. European politics are a fraud, pretending to represent the people. Pretending. Those with real power aren’t the voters. Real power comes with money. The mantra of the free market is still omnipresent in European politics and the only ones really benefitting are large […]