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Solicitor General, conservatives back Hollywood

Solicitor General, conservatives back HollywoodHere we go again.It's rather sad to see this same battle played out time and again. This battle has nothing to do with infringement -- it has everything to do with control. If the industry can't control the distribution channel, it must be destroyed.The threat to...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital music, Digital media, P2P, rampant copyright infringement, Solicitor General, massive copyright infringement, legitimate purpose, software

Discussion threads 2005-01-24

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Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debate

Mega-Corps & the worldThere is life beyond the Mega-Corp droneculture where management punishes theworker ants for a mistake and threatensthem with layoffs and pay cuts.No thanks, small enterprise businessis the groundwork, big mega-corpsare puppet shells with CEO's pullingthe strings.RE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateWell putRE: Enteprise 2.0 - the non-debateUnfortunately...

Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enteprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Oracle Fusion - a damp squib

Vomitworthy? Please try not to choke....Dennis, Thanks for the charming review of my post. You could never could figure out the difference between a good argument and an ad hominem attack, so you've deferred to your strength, the unreasoned insult. Great job. Kind of makes it hard to comment on...

Tags: Oracle Fusion, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Doctor Antivirus 2008 (The ultimate guide to scareware protection)

ScamsI have seen many of these screens before, on my own PC. I usually retreat to AVG, Norton, or Symantec sites to check their claims, do online scans, and Google search to find unhappy "users"RE: Doctor Antivirus 2008 The ultimate guide to scareware protectionthere ought to be laws... even so...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, antivirus, SpyBot, ultimate guide, TrendMicro RUBotted, Trend Micro Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

The ultimate guide to scareware protection

Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Windows Genuine Advantage: Spyware or legitimate tool?

Since when is your IP address "personal information"?Your IP address is visible for the whole world to see, just like it always has been.Are people really this stupid?PersonallyIt's a hassle Windows could do without. People will pirate regardless, and in those terms, Microsoft is fighting a war it cannot win.I'm...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, tool, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, spyware, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington state

Tax concerns to push Microsoft Azure cloud hosting out of Washington stateWhat next, they'll terminate everyone's licensing agreements and thenhit the kill switch?Governments should be bullying corporations. Not the other way around. (or perhaps neither side should bully the other?)Typical MicroshaftHire foreigners, make the taxpayers foot the bill...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, government, Microsoft Corp., Washington State, Quincy facility, Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Google could take a lesson from Bing on porn

Google could take a lesson from Bing on pornMissed it by THAT much...That's great and all, except it gives a false sense of security. If Microsoft's filters of explicit content was perfect, there'd be no reason to block a "domain"... one would just need to use Microsoft's filtering. ...

Tags: Bing, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., domain

Discussion threads 2009-06-13

Email service provider: 'Hack into our CEO's email, win $10k'

A newly launched startup called StrongWebMail is aiming to add a new layer of secure authentication for its customers - phone verification prior to logging in and alert services for potential email compromises. The company is in fact so confident in its approach that it's currently offering...

Tags: Phone, Password, Spamming, Feature, Computer, CEO, Dancho, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-02

When (and why) do you buy a new PC?

When and why do you buy a new PC?Just before a new release of Windows ...... providing OEM's offer a 'free' upgrade to the next version of the OS. That way you get a copy of XP and an upgrade to Vista/ copy of Vista and upgrade to Windows7 (which...

Tags: Notebooks, Games, dell laptop, new-PC, laptop computer, game, PC

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Does Ashton Kutcher kill Twitter's credibility?

Does Ashton Kutcher kill Twitter's credibility?the hype was certainly a two-edged swordyou are spot on with you commentary and i commen you for pointing out how we should be less distracted by the hype and more focused on how to bring the technology to the next levelCredibility! Is this a...

Tags: Twitter, Kutcher

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

7 (nasty) truths about IT spending

7 nasty truths about IT spendingWisht that I could work....For an over funded IT department. Or even have a project that is anywhere near properly funded. Where do these slices of heaven exist?agreedIt does seem simplistic to simply kill a project because it hit a threshold. If an unexpected data...

Tags: Strategy, Financial accounting, information technology, IT-spending

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

Making sense of the latest Conficker update

Making sense of the latest Conficker updateBe VigilantSince it is apparent that Conficker is a 'rootkit' there is all the more reason to scan your systems using a tool which reads your Windows partitions in an 'off-line' manner.I describe such a tool here:http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2009/04/a-must-have-security-tool-bitdefender-rescue-cd-for-unicies.htmlAlso, admins can scan subnets collectively in a...

Tags: Piracy, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Conficker Update, latest Conficker update, Making Sense, Microsoft Corp., Conficker Worm

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

News scraping: Are bloggers doing more harm than good?

News scraping: Are bloggers doing more harm than good?Sources and attributionin many cases the newspapers need to remember that it is not their own words that they're guarding. It is the words of their sources. In most cases the plain facts and the words of a third party can be...

Tags: Blogging, blogger

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakers

Mozilla, Skype join EFF in supporting jailbreakersApple Makes the best Smart Phone. Now...... it needs to make the most open Smart Phone.The backlash against Apple is growingPeople are slowly beginning to realize that Apple, the multi-national, multi-billion $$$/year mega corporation, does [b]not[/b] have consumer rights in mind. They are...

Tags: Web browsers, Strategy, Cellular phones, Mozilla Corp., Apple Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-02-18

Wall Street waits for layoffs at Microsoft

Wall Street waits for layoffs at MicrosoftI told you so!Nobody believed my predictions when I said that M$ is going down quickly and Linux is eating their lunch!Now the naysayers have been proven wrong!The only tech companies that are hiring and grow are the OSS kind.M$ drones will get in...

Tags: Linux, Operational accounting, Workforce management, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Windows7, Microsoft Corp., revenue, layoff

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

The inevitable rise (and fall?) of 'twishing'

The phishing or "twishing" situation happening with Twitter is merely the tip of the iceberg. Rather than dig into the situation myself -- including the OAuth debate -- I've turned it over to one of  my more technical-brained friends. Damon Cortesi is a security consultant who has also authored a...

Tags: Network, Twitter, Damon Cortesi, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Thousands of legitimate sites SQL injected to serve IE exploit

Thousands of legitimate sites SQL injected to serve IE exploitThis is why Firefox + NoScript isn't a magic fixBefore any Firefox zealots start going nuts, Firefox + NoScript is my browser configuration of choice.That being said, people do have to be careful when they use the "Allow " option of...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, NoScript, whitelist, Mozilla Firefox, SQL, Microsoft Internet Explorer, attack

Discussion threads 2008-12-17

SpyCatcher Express 5.1.2 (Windows)

SpyCatcher Express protects all Web surfers by providing a safe and advanced antispyware solution. Free Scan. Free Removal. Free Forever. SpyCatcher Express protects against next-generation, complex spyware and puts users back in control of their PCs. SpyCatcher goes beyond traditional signature matching by incorporating a multi-pronged method for threat detection...

Tags: Tenebril Inc., Microsoft Windows, Tenebril SpyCatcher, SpyCatcher Express, DeepDefense, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2008-12-17

Dell XPS One 24 (PRODUCT) RED desktop computer (Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200, 750GB HDD, 4GB)

We liked Sony's Vaio LV180J 24-inch all-in-one because it works as a relatively complete secondary home entertainment system. Despite Dell's ambitions in that direction with its own XPS One 24, we don't think it's as well suited to the purpose. Instead, Dell's new large screen all-in-one fares better if you...

Tags: Home entertainment, Desktops, Intel Core 2 Duo, desktop computer, computer, Intel Corp., hard drive, desktop, XPS, Dell Computer Corp., Sony Vaio LV180J

Product reviews 2008-12-09