Friday link frenzy

Is it just me, or does Niall Kennedy's history sniffing hack creep you the hell out? Commenter Kris Arnold points out some privacy remedies.

Mike Orr points out more evidence for the theory that the spyware problem is a subset of the proprietary software problem.

Karsten Self was one of the first to draw the connection. In "Spyware, Adware, Windows, GNU/Linux, and Software Culture". Karsten wrote: "The short version of this section is: adware / spyware / malware is the logical outcome of the competitive, proprietary software market of the past several decades."

On a practical level, what is the difference between software that does something on your computer out of your control, without telling you, and software that does it, but does tell you in a EULA that you don't read?

Interesting blog entry from Jignesh Shah to go back and read in light of the Sun/MySQL deal. "Today UltraSPARC T2 based systems are 'artificially' bottlenecked not because of performance but because of price of proprietary databases just because they are running on UltraSPARC T2."

Jimmy Atkinson's "Top 25 Linux Games for 2008"!

LinuxBIOS is now called coreboot (It's not Linux and it's not a BIOS, so let's all be a little less confused for a while.)

Best. Headline. Ever.