Just about a year ago, the Baltic state of Estonia went offline. Botnets, immense networks of hijacked computers, poured billions of hits onto Estonian government and commercial websites, and the Estonian servers, attempting to shoulder many times their normal load, gave up. Tensions were elevated-Estonians blamed the Russian government, who naturally denied involvement. For nearly [...]

Computers are one of the greatest inventions of humanity, designed by some of humanity’s most brilliant people. With all due respect, though, their brainchildren, while enormously useful, have been subjected to some serious pain due to developers’ negligence. Here are a few examples from my personal experience.

Canon’s ZoomBrowser software for its digital cameras is truly [...]