On hackers, maturity, and the international market

There has been several published works on the what the media calls hackers, the hacker underground, the information security industry, and the technorati class in general lately. Here are a few:

Phrack #63 section 13 The death of the underground
Zero For 0wned The “Industry check” section
H Security All Around My (Black) Hat
CNN Technology Hanging with hackers [...]

Real Estate

Since I’m a general know-it-all, and like unlike most people do not have problems managing finances, people ask me about real estate issues a lot.

If they have a decent attention span and live in Seattle, I point them to the Seattle Bubble Blog. It does a great job of debunking a lot of the fluff [...]

Amazon Kindle Launch

The media blitz over the Kindle is really excessive.

“Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device” (Amazon)

I think it’s great that someone finally found a way for newspapers to preserve their readership, but by getting people to buy a $400 brick with EVDO where they can download books? $10 ebook downloads? I’m [...]

Grumble

Whenever I try to get a cell phone, it always ends up being a circus.

For instance earlier today I ordered the previously mentioned Nokia N95.  I must now reject receiving it because this phone is going to be out in a couple of weeks.

From the product description:

Uses 3.5G wireless technology for easy, convenient Internet browsing
Features [...]

Seattle Housing

More real estate agents.Everything was gravy for people selling houses in the last few years due to large margins of profit for sellers and the greed for easy “houses never lose money” investments for buyers…. You need to embrace them or be left behind.I believe that these high margin sales people will get a bit of a reprieve from online social networking in that they will be able to capitalize on those who are online and use it socially, but not familiar with it enough to find tools toI find it amusing when juvenile mentalities are so commonplace in consumer facing [...]