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- Bigger isn't better -- for carnivores
- Imagine that youre a beaver: you might find enough small prey to easily survive. Now, imagine that youre a polar bear weighing half a ton, and things should become more difficult: youll need to catch bigger preys. In Why are lions not as big as elephants?, a short press release...
- Tags: Carnivore, prey, species
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
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- Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ring
- Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringI have many waysthere are many ways of dealing with these peoplewithout death being the punishment, they'd wish they were dead.RE: Feds bust P2P-based kiddie porn ringThey should take everyone of them out and hang them. Don't let their neck snap but let them down...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Did the big boys really kill OLPC?
- The UK's Timesonline is running a story today showing us that, despite internal strife, questionable morals and ideals, and now, the inclusion of Windows XP on a computer that was supposed to embody all that was good in open source, OLPC remains a media darling. The article...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Consumer Reports urges Mac users to dump Safari, cites lack of phishing protection
- The 2008 edition of Consumer Reports' "State of the Net" report, advises that a common security mistake is "thinking your Mac shields you from all risks", and that due to Safari's lack of built-in phishing protection Mac users are urged to switch to Firefox or Opera : "According to...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Safari, Consumer Reports, Phishing Protection, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer
- Google Knol - Yup, it's a Wikipedia killer"American Physical Society had recently stated that this is NOT the case"You claim that the American Physical Society APS recently stated that "there is still a lot of SCIENTIFIC debate going on" regarding the causes of global warming. That is an inaccurate...
- Tags: Wiki, Christopher Monckton, American Physical Society, Google Knol, Google Inc., Wikipedia-killer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- WISeForm (exe)
- Access your Web sites using one password, or digital certificate, easy form fillings, one click logon, and also run from a portable USB device. WISeForm is a password, Web single sign on and form filling application. Most Internet users struggle with password management, and as a consequence they often use...
- Tags: Web, Password, WISeKey, WISeForm
- Software downloads 2008-07-09
- Pay $50 extra for XP on a PC? You've gotta be kidding me!
- Pay $50 extra for XP on a PC? You've gotta be kidding me!Welcome to reality...[b]Whatever happened to the idea that computing would change the world, and that free and fair competition is the basis of a free market society? [/b]Uh... I don't know what ivory tower you grew up in,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Construction, user experience, Apple Inc., Pay $50, job, window, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- 10 top Vista tweaks, part 2
- 10 top Vista tweaks, part 2There's a registry fixIt's an architectural problem, unfortunately. XP sees the new restore points, but can't read them and assumes they're damaged.There's a workaround here:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185I prefer to run XP in a VM on a Vista machine rather than dual boot.RE: 10 top Vista tweaks, part...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Home Premium
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Another bug your tools won't find and your WAF won't prevent
- Another bug your tools won't find and your WAF won't preventNothing is secureIt's always the simple things that work best.And do not even think this is limited MS, every system will fall prey to this or something like it.The only totally secure system, is one not connected to the network.But...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, WAF
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Polar Bear Threatened, says U.S. Global warming acknowledged in public.
- The U.S. Department of Interior has just listed the polar bear as a "threatened" species, that is legally and technically different than being listed as "endangered." The Feds based their announcement on studies by government scientists. Global warming is reducing Arctic sea ice off...
- Tags: Bear, Global Warming, Bloomberg News, Wetzler, Kivalina, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Mozilla spreads malware rather than security
- Mozilla spreads malware rather than securityyet another demostration that open source code is NOT safer than closedyet another demostration that open source code is NOT safer than closedSh*t happens....There is no absolute security in computing. And there never will be. Not even when you are running Linux (safe from viruses,...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Web browsers, Murderers, security, Mozilla Corp., malware, virus, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy; Microsoft's big move
- Wall Street is a big prediction market and traders are increasingly getting antsy about Microsoft's next move regarding Yahoo. Thus far, Microsoft has kept people guessing, but may reveal its plan on Wednesday. As we all know, Microsoft's negotiate or else deadline passed on Saturday and it...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wall, Wall Street, Corporate Governance, Construction, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- A 100-million-year dragon killer
- Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...
- Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Creeping totalitarianism: The NSA, personal data and you
- Here's a simple rule for preventing totalitarian rule in any nation: Don't build the systems for monitoring people's daily lives closely in the first place, and you will not be at risk of totalitarian rulers using those systems to overwhelm individual choice. The Wall Street Journal today has a long...
- Tags: Monitoring, Terrorism, NSA, Government, Homeland Security, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- eBay sees growing risks to business in coming year
- eBay sees growing risks to business in coming yearThere main problem is...they suk! Their customer service is the pits! and sellers/buyers are sick of it! Simple questions get automated email replies. Issues are down-played by their so-called customer reps. Many hope they die off... but that won't happen. All...
- Tags: eBay Inc., risk
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- "Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?
- "Vista Capable" logo - what went wrong?What went wrong was simple....... MS proved once again that they are a marketing company and not a technology company. Marketing takes precedence. It doesn't matter if the customer gets scr3wed because they're a monoply and the customer's only purpose is to fill the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), No_Ax, marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Vista Capable
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Microsoft+courts+open-source+vendors+to+support+Win+Server+2008
- Microsoft+courts+open-source+vendors+to+support+Win+Server+2008I just can NOT stop laughing. Like save all that money on the otherapplications so you can turn it over to MS for a server that does not work as good as Linux????? I mean, like, who is THAT stupid???? Stevie and Billy are dreaming.Of all the open source projects,...
- Tags: Linux, Scripting languages, Operating systems, Programming languages, UNIX, M$FT, Microsoft Corp., open source, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- News to know: Adobe launches AIR 1.0; Private IE 8 beta; Apple IIc; Jeremy Allison
- Notable headlines: Adobe to launch AIR 1.0 Techmeme. Putting terabytes of memory into servers, the cheap way Mary Jo Foley: Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon Richard Stiennon: Pakistan removed...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Jeremy Allison, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Beta, Internet, Wireless LANs, E-mail Providers, Open Source, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Birds Screensaver (exe)
- World is beauty. Birds have added to its beauty more. There are different types of birds in the world. They are different in color, size and habit. On their habit and activities they are also classified as teasing birds, tailor birds, singing birds, birds of prey, taking birds, domestic birds,...
- Tags: Screensaver, Bird
- Software downloads 2008-02-06
- Obama+a+Mac%2C+Clinton+a+PC%2C+but+what+is+McCain%3F
- Obama+a+Mac%2C+Clinton+a+PC%2C+but+what+is+McCain%3FSpeaking as an ArizonanMcCain is a 4.77 Mhz IBM PC with 256K of RAM emulating an Apple ][ running VisiCalc.RE: Obama a Mac, Clinton a PC, but what is McCain?Hillary = trojan horseObama = virusA Trojan Horse is full of as much trickery as the mythological Trojan Horse it was...
- Tags: Mainframes, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Default OS, computer virus, McCain, Obama, Obama+a+Mac%2C+Clinton+a+PC%2C+but+what+is+McCain%3F
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
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