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- These photos illustrate AT&T's phone, Internet tracking activities for NSA
- These photos illustrate AT&T's phone, Internet tracking activities for NSAThe WiMAX Steamrollerwill set us free. With no external control over "the MESH", and encrypting ALL traffic - there will be no way to tap into the traffic. Meshing technology will randomly route traffic, and since its all encrypted - you...
- Tags: Internet, Orwellian, phone, plastics, AT&T Corp., What-If, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-05-24
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- Why your text messages are not private
- Why your text messages are not privatesolutionAll new text messaging clients should just use 128 bit encryption by default. Then there would be no legal battles to fight from either side.If text messaging application providers would as a standard use 128 bit encryption for login/password validation and for the...
- Tags: E-mail, Network technology, Google Inc., licence
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Pigs is pigs and data is data
- My former mentor, Curtis Meinert, was fond of telling his fellow clinical trialists that "pigs is pigs and data is data" as we wrangled over drug testing results. When I first heard the phrase at the ripe old age of 19 from this midwestern guy turned white-haired biostatistician and...
- Tags: Data, RTI, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Jobs' Apple as premier platform mantra to accelerate
- Jobs' Apple as premier platform mantra to accelerateNo, ZDNet talkbacks are the reason[i]So, instead, they declare the Mac user irrational.[/i]5 minutes on ZDNet talkbacks are all we need to declare Mac users irrational. :)False on many frontsWhy PC users are not excited about their machines? Completely wrong. Plenty...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, job, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Stolen laptops phone home
- Stolen laptops phone homeSounds great but...I wonder, can this technology be used to track people's whereabouts without their knowledge? For example, is there or could there be some NSA or other secret group back door whereby a tracing function may be activated via the internet?This type of concern is already...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, BIOS, INTERNET, Workforce management, Notebooks, phone, windows laptop, laptop computer, computer, tracker service, administration, IP address, password
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Why OS X costs twice as much as Windows
- Why OS X costs twice as much as WindowsMore Closed??Nearly half of OSX is all open source. Freely available for download, including the code. The *ONLY* proprietary part is the GUI that lies on top, and a few key underpinnings such as Core technologies (CoreGraphics, CoreVideo, etc). Now when you...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Every move you make tracked by RFID tags
- Every move you make tracked by RFID tags...Too Orwellian for my tastes... ]:)
- Tags: RFID tag, RFID
- Discussion threads 2008-04-06
- 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
- Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the net
- Wikileaks judge realizes you can't enjoin the netforgetting the 1st Amendment?Clsoing down a whole site due to one item that may or may not be actionable seems a bit Stalinish to me. Perhaps our esteemed jurist would like to look at a little document called THE CONSTITUTION! Or perhaps he...
- Tags: Wikileaks, Miranda, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Websense CEO Gene Hodges on attack vectors, the future of AV and the malware arms race
- Websense CEO Gene Hodges on attack vectors, the future of AV and the malware arms raceSounds like the Human component is still neededWith Enterprise 2.0 we seem to want to take the human element out of the picture as much as possible, but at the same time, when we have...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, malware, Websense Inc., Web site, attack vector
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Protein+nanotech+in+next+gen+storage
- Protein+nanotech+in+next+gen+storageviruses?Perhaps too far in advance for any testing, but I wonder if this places a new spin on the term "computer virus". Imagine somehow "infecting" a hard drive with a pathogen which feeds on proteins. Your machine would no longer need to be turned on to be destroyed. Plus, the...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, SECURITY, protein, storage, media, attack, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Damn I'm glad I don't live in the UK
- Damn I'm glad I don't live in the UKYou can't have it both waysDo ZDNet's bloggers bother to read what they write? How can you say you favor prosecuting downloaders but not the government knowing what's in an ISP's pipe? Follow the logic here: If downloaders can be prosecuted, that...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Microsoft Corp., Internet Service Provider, government, accomplice
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Fuming over fumes: E.P.A. is 0 for 3 with a loss in the blogosphere
- The Environmental Protection Agency Orwellian doublespeak in its current incarnation seems to be having its own lame duck problems during the final months of the current American regime. The latest two attacks come from the non-executive parts of the federal government itself. A federal appeals court...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Blogosphere, Blogging, Federal Government, Internet, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- News to know: Windows Server 2008; MySpace developers; Zimbra
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: What will run on Windows Server 2008--and when No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are good to go Ballmer outlines Microsoft's eight long-term growth bets Vista marketing...
- Tags: Developer, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Zimbra, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, MySpace, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world
- Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web worldahem, IE 3 & 4 superior to NS 3 & 4, Firefox is better than bothNS 3 & 4 rendered tables terribly and if you had a space in the web page file name in a URL, NS would not read the URL...
- Tags: Web browsers, Channel management, NS 3 & 4, Orwellian Web world, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- 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
- Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and away
- Microsoft Q2 earnings and outlook are up, up and awaySame old story"Results in the prior year were impacted by the deferral of $1.64 billion of revenue and operating income and $0.11 of diluted earnings per share from the second to the third quarter of fiscal 2007, due primarily to technology...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Financial accounting, Operational accounting, paragraph, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Q2 earning, Microsoft Q2
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboards
- Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboardsA scary anectdoteI remember, a few years ago while I was still in the Service, I'd come home on leave and went to a local minor league hockey game. Before letting us into the stadium, they did the wand test, and...
- Tags: Keyboards, Marketing research, bear, cutesy keyboard, cuddly creature, Build-A-Bear Workshop, creature, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- New torrent technology a serial industry killer
- New torrent technology a serial industry killerBittie will likelyBittie will likely wet his trousers over this.:o)Nice work DanantList of torrent RSS feeds of practically every showThis site has a long list of torrent feeds for practically every popular TV show, formatted for Miro. You can even view the list...
- Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, broadband, serial industry killer, industry killer, cable, industry
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- Going into predictive health with eyes wide open
- When I chose to attend the Predictive Health Institute symposium this week at Emory University, I feared an Orwellian nightmare. Combining knowledge of your personal genome, population studies, and a desire for efficiency among all those paying into the health care system -- government, employers, parents --...
- Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
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