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German man beats WWII Colossus code cracker

German man beats WWII Colossus code crackerAnd this is surprising why?Why is it considered a challenge to beat a WW2 computer with a modern computer? It should take less than a second.CodingI think the "wow" is in how he quickly and single-handedly coded his own solution to the problem....

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, WWII Colossus, German MAN

Discussion threads 2007-11-17

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Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability

Do phishers actually make money, or is phishing an unprofitable business, scammers lose time and resources into? Taking the economic approach of generalizing how much money phishers make, a recently released study by Microsoft researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio (A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons), states...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Welcome to the Consumer Electronics Show. Sales Are Flatlining.

The semi-annual forecast of industry sales for consumer electronics makers just came out. And the projection is that, despite the transition to digital TV and lust for portable electronics of all types, sales are going down this year. Not by much. Percentage-wise,...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Salesforce Outage - Klaatu Barada Nikto

As I'm sure half the known and 2/3 of the yet to be discovered universe is aware now, salesforce.com had an outage on January 6.  It was due to a memory allocation failure in the main servers and it whacked the failover to back up servers too.  ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Outage, Sales Force Management, Manufacturing, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-01-08

CES 2009: Summing up Ballmer's first keynote [day 2]

CES 2009: Summing up Ballmer's first keynote [day 2]Ballmer, not badIt was always interesting to watch Bill mostly because he is the richest man in the world. I always wondered what the richest guy was thinking about. Had to watch Steve just to see what he had to say. Not...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, CES 2009

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Top movies in 2008

Top movies in 2008re: Big Whoop[i]On the BoxOfficeMojo ranking of all-time top-grossing films WEIGHTED FOR INFLATION, Dark Knight comes in at #27, behind films such as The Graduate (#18), Mary Poppins (#23), and even Grease (#25).[/i]Domestically, yes. Worldwide, it's #4 at $997 mil UNADJUSTED. Unfortunaltely I can't find...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Worldwide IT, Dark Knight

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

The Gupta choice

The Gupta choiceWe are doomed.Why stop at an obesity tax? Why not a risky sex tax? You know, all those questions they ask you when you give blood? (Have you ever, even once, had sex with another man?)We could have a risky behavior tax. Do you...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, thought police, tax, cigarette, obesity tax, fatty, risk

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerability

Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerabilityEconomic tremors and MSWith Economic tremors abounding us right now, I do not see how a Company could withstand the money lost from an exploit like this plus all of the time spent by staff and lost productivity due to insecure software. I do not see...

Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Corp., worm

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Top movies in 2008

Rank Title Distributor Total US$ Open Date 1 THE DARK KNIGHT Warner Bros. 530,540,885 07/18/2008 2 IRON MAN Paramount 318,313,199 05/02/2008 3 INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL Paramount 317,023,851 05/22/2008 4 HANCOCK Sony 227,946,274 07/02/2008 5...

Tags: SEUSS, Disaster Recovery, Data Management, NB

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Are White House computers a crime scene?

Are White House computers a crime scene?Really pointless attention huntingI am surprised that it takes some news author to bring up the issue of proper care and archiving of official communication and proper treatment of electronic information carriers.For one, it would take real numskulls in the president's entourage to leave...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Whitehouse, crime scene, White House, Bush-bashing, computer, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Why Schiller's Macworld keynote is a big deal in the big picture

Why Schiller's Macworld keynote is a big deal in the big pictureSteve in a bottleLarry Dignan's brief analysis of the Apple situation is clear, concise, commonsensical and certainly correct. It's a welcome change from all the noise that has been bombarding us over the last few weeks... culminating in a...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

TAO 1.1 (Mobile)

TAO (TranslateIt! Online) is an app for one-click translation of texts from one language to another powered by Google online translation engine. Customizable list of source and target languages, support for Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,...

Tags: Mobile, Tao, Deep IT

Software downloads 2009-01-07

The Bat (Professional Edition) 4.1.9 (Windows)

The Bat is an e-mail application that supports multiple POP3 accounts, multithreading, MIME and UUencode standards, multimedia, APOP authorization, and PGP. You also will find a fast and comfortable message editor with text highlighting, as well as a mail dispatcher for managing messages on servers. English, Russian, German, Dutch, Polish,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, RitLabs, Bat, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Security

Software downloads 2009-01-07

Forget global warming, consider global blooming

Recently I tried to warn an indifferent public about the curse of the killer jellyfish. This time, it's an even tinier threat, but also a great one. Deadly and toxic algal blooms are increasing in the world's coastal waters. Researchers cite degraded water quality from increased nutrient...

Tags: Global Warming, Water, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-06

How to be less stupid in 2009

How to be less stupid in 2009The ribbon, a "debacle?""As has been shown in the ‘ribbon’ menu debacle of Office 2007, no-one will likely want it."There have been some dissenters, but from what I've read so far, the biggest complaints have been simply that it's so different and the lack...

Tags: Strategy, ribbon, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Forget MacWorld and the keynote. Jobs as Obama's CTO? No.

So Mike Contaxis at MacSoda had the "real reason" why Steve Jobs was not going to give the keynote today at MacWorld. This was before Jobs' disclosure of the "hormonal imbalance" that his medical team has determined is leading him to lose weight. Jobs is set to...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, CTO, Macworld, Obama, Internet, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Apple's final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappoint

Apple's final Macworld: Schiller delivers but announcements disappointNot worthy?"DRM-free tracks ... will expand to include all 10 million songs in the catalog" and you have to question if this is "worthy of a “One last thing…” announcement"???This is GREAT news, and it alone would have made my day! But...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Notebooks, Desktops, DRM-free music, Apple Inc., Macworld

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Top 10 DVDs in 2008

Rank Title Distributor Release Date 1 Iron Man Paramount Home Entertainment 9/30/08 2 I Am Legend Warner Home Video 3/18/08 3 Alvin and the Chipmunks Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent 4/1/08 4 Enchanted Disney/Buena Vista Home Video 3/18/08 5 National...

Tags: Movie, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., DVD, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, NB

Blog posts 2009-01-06

China cracks down on porn

China cracks down on pornChina cracks down on pornNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!RE: China cracks down on pornI think this is great! I only wish that the U.S. could implement mandatory porn filtering.RE: China cracks down on pornChild porn is still one of the biggest problems, much of it from the Far East. As...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Network technology, dictator

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Numeraders 1.0.1 (Mobile)

Numeraders is a game inspired by Calculator games from the 1980s. You must cycle through the green targeter number on the left using the Aim button and match the advancing red numbers on the right. Tapping fire will destroy the invader and gain you 10 points. If you shoot a...

Tags: Mobile, Point, Numeraders, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-01-06