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- SPY Acts vs. CAN-SPAM: No difference
- SPY Acts vs. CAN-SPAM: No differenceOn the contrary[i]Cyber criminals are not law-abiding Internet citizens, and the SPY Acts, like CAN-SPAM, will have little impact. [/i]Like the "You CAN spam" Act, these all preempt State laws that actually have some chance of working. That is, after all, their main purpose....
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Spam, SECURITY, spyware, CAN-SPAM Act, State Laws, anti-spyware, SPY ACT, anti-spyware vendor
- Discussion threads 2007-06-08
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- Girls are as smart as boys, but tests are getting dumber
- New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one. A quick quote from the article before I get into the...
- Tags: Test, Teacher, Hyde, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks (SSDs) and Linux
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks SSDs and LinuxOh, It's just Loverock at it again? Pay no attention Jason.ntGeek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks SSDs and LinuxHow sad is that? You need a tweaking guide just to get a disk drive to...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, solid state disk, disk, Linux, Geek Sheet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives
- Crucial Micron Solid State Drive installation and configuration by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Micron Technology Inc., Solid State Disk, Jason Perlow, flash memory, micron, crucial, ssd, solid state drive
- Image galleries 2008-07-25
- Foxconn snubs Linux users
- Foxconn snubs Linux usersWho needs Foxconn anyway.There are plenty of good MB makers that do support Linux.It's a good idea to look at hardware compatibility at the distro's website anyway. I use Asus. But I have had to update the BIOS on every Asus MB I've bought to get...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Foxconn, Linux, BIOS, ASUS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- Britain moves against illegal file sharingWould like to know how they will determine this.I think they are going to have significant problems with this.Briton can do what they want, the people there seem to be unwilling to stop their government from making so many laws they are in "freedom chains"....I...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, file-sharing, File Sharing Program
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...
- Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- (Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug)
- (Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug)How Ironical....I consider it the greates irony that this conference was held in California... The same California that won't let another electrical generation plant to be built and can't keep all it's existing A/Cs running... Just where to they think they are going to...
- Tags: car, charger, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-TWHAT???So they let the app slide for two years until they launch their own competing version that proves to be a fraction as popular, THEN they go after these guys cuz their own app can't cut it?I call bullspit!If it was a rights infringement, they should have...
- Tags: Games, Scrabble-Scrabulous, Facebook, patent, game
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- NASA used cadavers to test Orion moonship
- NASA officials recognized last week that dead bodies were used to develop Orion landing systems. According to NASA, 'three human bodies were used in the tests at Ohio State University Medical Center' in 2007. Even if the results of the experiments helped NASA, one of its spokesman said that the...
- Tags: NASA, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Most IT department, private network, network, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ego Cup
- With many states recently passing hands-free laws banning the use of handsets while driving, we're seeing a flood of new Bluetooth devices into what is already a pretty crowded market. The Funkwerk Ego Cup is one such device, promising clear calls without fear of a citation. It stands apart from...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Ego Cup, cup-holder
- Product reviews 2008-07-23
- No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings
- Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
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