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PimpMaster C explains pump and dump scams

Yo, PimpMaster C here, to tell you all about the pump and dump. I know you ladies in the audience probably have a thing or two to say about that shit too, but this is not a romance advice column; I'm talking about the financial concept. It's a way to make serious bling by basically just convincing other foos to give it to you. UPDATE: Check it, my academic homies Frieder and Zittrain have wrote a paper about those pump'n'dump stock spams you get. Go read it (you gots to have Javascript to download the PDF), and don't be falling for that shit, yo.

(22 January 2007)

Buried in bits

Almost ten years ago, I read a fascinating essay by George Gilder in Computer Underground Digest, reprinted from Forbes.  He predicted that in The Future, technologies like the erbium doped fiber amplifier would cause bandwidth to grow faster than CPU power, and that that would eventually have drastic effects on how we do computing and networking.  I'm not sure that prediction has really come true, but supposing it did, what would be the effect on the copyright wars? (16 January 2007)

How to concatenate PDFs without pain

In my work I recently had a situation where I needed to concatenate several PDF files into one big PDF file.  That turns out to be a much harder problem than it sounds, and the Web isn't as helpful in solving it as should be the case.  Here's a summary of what I've discovered on the subject, so that someone else who wants to append PDF files on a real computer won't have to go through what I went through.  This page covers only software that will run under Linux and similar FLOSS environments. (9 January 2007)