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- So just what is a 21st Century Skill?
- We hear a lot about 21st Century Skills lately; I'm certainly guilty of using the phrase. There's a whole website devoted to building them (actually, there are thousands, but this one has the domain name www.21stcenturyskills.org). We also know that a lot of our kids don't have them...
- Tags: Student, 21CS, Ruby On Rails, Productivity, Domain Names, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft's Live Search (finally) adds malware warnings
- Microsoft's Live Search team has officially announced the integration of warnings for potentially malware infected sites within Live Search, following last week's introduction of a malware warning service aimed at webmasters. According to a post by Christian Seifert, Software Design Engineer at Live Search Anti-Spam & Anti-Malware...
- Tags: Microsoft Live Search, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search Team, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- AV on my Macs? Say it ain't so!
- AV on my Macs? Say it ain't so!Just pointed the issue out to my brother at UNCThe linked text at Apple in question:[pre]Mac OS: Antivirus utilities * Last Modified: December 02, 2008 * Article: HT2550 * Old Article: 4454SummaryLearn about...
- Tags: Desktops, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Apple Macintosh, virus, antivirus, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- E pur se muove (and yet it moves)
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Ivan Arce On January 15, 2008, the Vatican released a statement indicating that Pope Benedict XVI had canceled his visit to Italian La Sapienza University as a result of a series of protests...
- Tags: Information Security, Galileo Galilei, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?
- At well over 300 talkbacks and counting, plenty of folks took my challenge (and my reader's challenge) to sort out just what it would take to switch from Windows to desktop Linux. Obviously, there was plenty of the standard Windows vs. Linux bickering, but there were also a lot...
- Tags: Desktop, Americans With Disabilities Act, Desktop Linux, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Remote Access, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Study: Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers do
- Study: Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers doThis study proves nothingOther than people are inheriently stupid. It would then become the responsibility (yes, responsibility..something we all dont want to take on these days) to know when to hang up/disconnect the call depending on driving conditions. All this does is...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, phone, cell phone, car
- Discussion threads 2008-12-01
- The widget conundrum
- There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...
- Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- US search engine market shares in October 2008
- Domain October 2007 September 2008 October 2008 www.google.com 64.49% 71.16% 71.70% search.yahoo.com 21.65% 18.06% 17.74% search.msn.com 7.42% 5.36% 5.40% www.ask.com 4.76% 3.63% 3.53% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base
- Virus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military baseThis isn't news.It's par for the course.RE: Virus hits nearly 75% of systemsHave these people not heard of Linux or Mac OS X?What these reports don't tell you...Is that the great majority of these infected systems are simply email stations for...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, virus, military base, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-29
- Why C wins: the cold realities of abstraction
- Why C wins: the cold realities of abstractionPoints of inflectionMy guess is that if we had a valid means of quantifying "abstractiveness" versus effectiveness we'd find a curve with clear points of inflection - and C on one of those.POSIX itself surprised it was not named SOSIX is an abstraction....
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Machine Language, C, abstraction
- Discussion threads 2008-11-29
- Google: no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability
- Following the speculations on the resurrection of what's thought to be an already fixed Gmail flaw which could assist in domain name hijackings, yesterday Google commented that their investigation indicated that the recent domain hijacks should be attributed to a phishing campaign, rather than to a Gmail flaw. The phishers...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Attacker, Vulnerability, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Are electronic and personal health records inevitable?
- Are electronic and personal health records inevitable?Well obama won and one of his main topics was healthcare.I would wager to bet, EHR will play a pivitol role in the tranformation of our healthcare system.Simple answer: noThere will be no electronic health records in the foreseeable future. Those who would have...
- Tags: E-health, HEALTHCARE, INTERNET, personal health record, EMR
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- The case for Scala
- Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....
- Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Web 2.0 security? What a mash
- * Ryan Naraine is away on vacation. Guest editorial by Guillaume Lovet Ah, Web 2.0. Its endless composition of heterogeneous sources (aka "mash-up") possibilities, its social networking-oriented nature, its user-provided content... A Web adapted to today's powerful machines, linking people together in world...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Codec, YouTube Inc., Video, Web 2.0, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Security, Internet, Marketing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Would you 'Kumo' it?
- A few months back, I noted Microsoft had been exploring some new possibilities for rebranding its search engine -- among them, Kumo. The LiveSide.Net folks are reporting tonight that Microsoft has taken control of the Kumo.com domain and has started redirecting internally some of its servers to it. by Mary...
- Tags: Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft Corp., LiveSide.Net Folk, Mergers & Acquisitions, Workforce Management, Corporate Law, Search, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-23
- Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom
- Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., CloudFront, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- What's driving women out of computer science?
- What's driving women out of computer science?Apples and orangesYou start by comparing "all engineering disciplines" from 1984 to present, then look at current trends in CS.This totally misrepresents the fact that [b]current[/b] female enrollment in the other disciplines is also falling.Either compare CS in 1984 to CS today along with...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, computer, women, computer science
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us
- OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught usFor the sake of the childrenIt didn't cost me anything to put up a page to promote OLPC, buy one get one.Negroponte/OLPC has catalyzed the netbook industry. If OLPC didn't come into being, would we have seen the Intel Classmate and the outpouring of...
- Tags: E-Ink, One Laptop Per Child project, Kindlenomics, textbook, text book
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
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