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VivaKi, dude, where is my code?

VivaKi, dude, where is my code?Geesh!Do you think it's possible that an ad company might use the term "open source" in a different sense than the coding community? Consider that "open source" was used in the intelligence community PRIOR to being used in the coding community and it does...

Tags: Cyberthreats, open source, Geesh, VivaKi, spam, Hormel

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

New Skype 1.3 for Windows is plagued by "known issues"

New Skype 1.3 for Windows is plagued by "known issues"Another Sensational Headline from ZdnetWhy do omit in the headline that it's Beta? Why fear-monger? They clearly warn about the potential problems upfront. Have you even used the version? It's got some neat features and seems to have better...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, beta, Geesh, Skype 1.3

Discussion threads 2005-06-02

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Hacking the vote

Hacking the voteYou'd think soBut lots of very smart people have spent lots of time not solving it.i think your server idea is right except that programmable clients make it possible to attack the server data store - something that can't be done with Sun Rays.Downside to having people pick...

Tags: Scanners, E-voting, SECURITY, VOTING MACHINES, ballot, hacking, programmer, server

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

Google Chrome is complementary to Firefox

Google Chrome is complementary to FirefoxAt lasta blogger who understands open source. Every idiot on the internet tries to paint Chrome as competition to Mozilla. They do not have the vaguest clue......RE: Google Chrome is complementary to FirefoxI am excited. I like firefox but with Googles track record,...

Tags: Web browsers, NOW IT, Google Browser, Remember IE, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, Google Inc., Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

MindMentor, the first robot psychologist

MindMentor, the first robot psychologistFirst? robot psychologist?The claim of "first" in the headline in patently false. Everyone knows that Joe Weizenbaum built the first one -- "ELIZA" in 1966. You should do some fact checking...RE: MindMentor, the first robot psychologistWhy would you do a whole article on this...

Tags: Robots, robot, MindMentor, first robot

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Hands on with the Kindle: This ugly duckling has potential

Hands on with the Kindle: This ugly duckling has potentialVersion 1.0 indeedI have been saying for several years that I will gladly try something like this if they also make it able to check my email and some of my daily web reading. As noted, all this would need is...

Tags: E-books, Wireless LANs, E-mail, Newsweek, Hands-On, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

Google third quarter earnings strong; $700 or bust?

Google reported strong third quarter results Thursday, but it was unclear whether it was strong enough to propel the stock price to that $700 mark some analysts have been projecting. After market close, Google reported revenue of $4.23 billion, up 57 percent from a year ago (earnings call transcript,...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, Partnership, Earnings, Business Structures, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Vista SP1: Indictment of Vista 1.0?

Microsoft's announcement that it is preparing a Vista Service Pack 1 beta in two weeks is curious on many levels. Although Microsoft delivers improvements via service packs I can't help but consider Vista SP1 a do-over. When the SP1 lands in the first quarter of 2008 are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, SP1, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-08-30

Can cryptography prevent printer-ink piracy?

Can cryptography prevent printer-ink piracy?loss and gain"...costs the industry at least $3 billion a year" means "$3 billion a year of bleeding the public manages to escape."How aboutCompetition?Seems like nowadays, if a company's profit margins start to shrink or the revenue goes down, the answer is litigation and more crypto.If...

Tags: Printers, cryptography, printer, cartridge, Hewlett-Packard Co., manufacturer, printer manufacturer

Discussion threads 2007-06-27

Silicon Valley gets a bad case of startup-itis; the doctor is in

Before commenting on Michael Arrington's yearning for a simpler Silicon Valley life, I'd like to disclose the following: I don't live in Silicon Valley; I always thought you West coasters were a bit off--now I know why self loathing; A CEO has never cried to me; And everyone whining about a little success...

Tags: General, Innovation, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Google denies Viacom copyright charges

Google denies Viacom copyright chargesHere is the problem..."under the Hosting Safe Harbor of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Kwun said. Under the provision, service providers that host other people's content are "safe" from liability if they quickly remove material a content owner alleges infringes on their copyright."Apparently Google has...

Tags: Google Inc., copyright holder, DMCA, Viacom Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

Can Google bring business intelligence to offline advertising?

Google announced its long-awaited TV ad trial with Echostar and Astound in what has become a long line of offline advertising forays. Whats Google up to? Creating a dashboard for advertising services. In other words, Google is trying to do what business intelligence companies do today...

Tags: Web Technology, Search, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-04-03

20 million Vista licenses equals a lot of unhappy customers

20 million Vista licenses equals a lot of unhappy customersSame as alwaysI had hardware problem going from Window NT to Windows 2000. I had to help tons of people with hardware problems going from Windows 98 SE to Windows XP. Nothing is different now. By the time the first service...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, PC Market, Nothing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-03-27

Google Apps in first collapse

Google Apps in first collapseExactly why online applications are not worth considering.Computers, as a rule, tend to breakdown when you need them most. It's bad enough to depend on one computer and locally installed application and of course the locally available data that goes with it. We take...

Tags: E-mail providers, E-mail, Google Inc., Google Gmail, online app, beta, Gmail IS, Google Apps

Discussion threads 2007-03-02

Microsoft set to publicize list of 800 Vista-compatible apps

Microsoft set to publicize list of 800 Vista-compatible appsWoW! 800 Applications available for Vista!And people complain about the lack of software for Macs ;-)Doing their best to encourage??!!!??Wow...am I ever encouraged! 800 out of the tens of thousands of available Windows apps...booyah!! And certified by independent testers...that inspires...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista Compatible, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2007-02-20

Gloomy iTunes predictions premature

Gloomy iTunes predictions prematureYou won't catch me buy tunes from iTunes even though I own an iPodWhy would I?Still ripping their collectionsand getting their MP3s, not AAC, from elsewhere? Anyways, you can never count Apple out, . . even if MS has to buy them back into existence. ...

Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Bernoff, CD, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

Microsoft patches zero-day Windows Media flaw

Microsoft patches zero-day Windows Media flawSide affect of DRM?Is this why a media player gets a higher priority than an office productivity app? Who doesn't see this as Microsoft placing the interest of their customers behind the interest of the media conglomerates? Amazing.-MikeThe same thing happeneda couple of...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Word, Patches, Apple Inc., patch management, Back-up, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, flaw, GNU/Linux, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

Taking passwords to the grave

Taking passwords to the gravePasswords changeOr at least they should every few months or so to be secure. So having online banking password in an estate plan isn't going to work.Passwords aren't the answerWhy not just have some provision for specifying who, if anyone, can have access to your online...

Tags: password, e-mail, family member

Discussion threads 2006-09-22

A hacker by any other name would code as sweet

A hacker by any other name would code as sweetGreat MenTalk about [url=http://www.jmusheneaux.com/39cc.htm#1968]hackers.[/url]Geesh! ;)Hack On!where'd the line go?there once was a line between hackers and crackers... hackers are like crackers, but they do it legal, legit, and for good purposes... crackers break in, break code, disrupt, and are the negative...

Tags: Hacking, hacker, cracker

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Never say never, even about Microsoft

Never say never, even about MicrosoftMicrosoft does not have to protect itself...... so much as it has to keep giving people and organizations reasons to buy upgrades of the company's products.If customers bought any given Microsoft product only once and remained fully satisfied with its performance, the company's profits would...

Tags: Dana, Microsoft Corp., OSS, Linux

Discussion threads 2006-09-11