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FTC: All eyes on consumer privacy

FTC: All eyes on consumer privacySpooky, but......there are things a lot more scary than Google's mail. Check out what they sell here and notice how they get it: www.Intelius.comprivacy is becoming thinner.why dont they just put a freakin' camera everyone home, and they could monitor everyone.. i hate this...

Tags: Google Gmail, consumer privacy, e-mail, Orwellian Language, FTC, privacy

Discussion threads 2004-06-10

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Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple?

Can Microsoft claw back lost market share from Apple?Yes, unless M$ shoots itself in the foot ...... by making W7 more expensive than Vista ... in which case Apple will have a field day :-(I can write the ad now.MAC Hello PC ... you're looking sad today.PC Yeh there's a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-05-20

Router Backdoors: Hacked by Chinese Part 2?

Router Backdoors: Hacked by Chinese Part 2?Typo AlertCite, not Site.Typo Alert: "They site no cases of any backdoors in any current routers sold from China."Correction: "They cite no cases of any backdoors in any current routers sold from China."Sorry to be nitpicking about typos, but this is probably because bloggers...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, router, Chinese Part 2, Router Backdoors

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world

About 10 years ago, we used to ask Jim Barksdale, then head of Netscape, a stock question during news conferences. Did you bag any "default browser" deals lately? Inevitably Jim would demur and say they were still trying. Those were the days when the light was swiftly...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Yahoo! Inc., Fact, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Channel Management, Internet, Web Browsers, Authentication/Encryption, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-04

Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images

Senator to propose surveillance of illegal imagesWhat the frack?Quote: It also covers obscene images of minors including ones in a "drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting." (The language warns that it is not necessary "that the minor depicted actually exist.")Very cute, since when did it become a crime to exercise concepts...

Tags: image, DRAWINGS, checksum, drawing

Discussion threads 2007-02-07

Another MySpace-enabled molestation, calls for crackdown

Another MySpace-enabled molestation, calls for crackdownMySpaceBravo! But ya know...MySpace isn't bad, it may be run badly, but it's the molestors who are bad...as well as the viruses/malware/spyware that comes with MySpace.Another war on terror?Only in the US you see this kind of overprotection for children. Almost all of the kids...

Tags: INTERNET, MySpace, predator

Discussion threads 2006-05-04

DRM and the myth of the 'analog hole'

DRM and the myth of the 'analog hole'"Simple" solutionIf movie and music people want to insist that they're selling "access" to the music on the CD or DVD then they should replace all damaged CD's and DVD's for free/cost. If they refuse to do that then they should have...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, digital-rights management, DRM IS, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2006-03-28

StarOffice 8 release date slips

StarOffice 8 release date slipsBogus reporting... sigh...---" However, OpenOffice.org, the open-source office productivity application on which StarOffice is based, has also been delayed for just this reason."---Um Mr. Reporter, you have it 180 degree's backwards. OpenOffice is based on a version of StarOffice the that Sun released to...

Tags: CollabNet Inc., OpenOffice, StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-08-12