CPU Rings, Privilege, and Protection - good overview article.
Archive 20. August 2008
Drinking fruit juice 'may stop medication working' - hmm, Mizolastin is not listed there, but the pharmacy already gave me information about grapefruit juice. Somehow silly, maybe I should drink my usual morning orange juice in the evening from now on ...
The Associated Press: States throw out costly electronic voting machines - only here do we still believe the manufacturers' lies more than the experts. There are no unhackable computers. As already in XKCD: "anti-virus programs on voting machines? You are doing it wrong."
The Great Consumer Crash of 2009 - ouch. This reads like a script for a horror movie. And since we in Germany are usually a few years behind the U.S. in all stupid ideas, something similar will certainly hit us here as well (and some of the developments described there can also be observed here - such as living off the credit line).