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The psychological impact of false positives

False positives, or the act of marking legitimate content as being malicious, are an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of rapid response security technologies. They are relatively rare, unseen events, that make the news only when something goes horribly wrong. Security filters in both the real world...

Tags: Antivirus, Error, Type II Error, American Citizen, Viruses And Worms, Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-02-03

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Fuel Efficiency Adviser

A typical car's trip computer shows information like average miles per gallon, range to empty, and distance traveled, but if you want to know more about your car's performance--a lot more--then the Fuel Efficiency Adviser deserves a place on your dashboard. Billed as a device to help you drive more...

Tags: Investment, Fuel Efficiency Adviser, Fuel Efficiency, advisor, car

Product reviews 2009-06-11

The psychological impact of false positives

The psychological impact of false positivesEmail and Type I errors"False positives, or the act of marking legitimate content as being malicious, are an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of rapid response security technologies.". . . and the absolutely absurd refusal to use proven security technologies like encryption and digital signatures for...

Tags: Digital signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, E-mail, SECURITY, false positive, psychological impact

Discussion threads 2009-02-03

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

Update, 12/4/08: It's been brought to my attention by a diligent reader that several of the products listed in this guide were from 2007, and not this year. I compiled this guide as an aggregation of several listings online; clearly, some of the listings were old...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Home Theater, Savings, HDTV, Price, LCD, Laptop Computer, Approx, SKIP, Home Entertainment, GPS, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-11-23

Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machines

Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machinesXubuntu 8.04 on low-power machinesI plan to load Xubuntu on two old machines -- so thanks for the info. I have had some success putting Puppy on some very old (98) machines. Why don't you try Puppy 3.01 or the latest beta (very...

Tags: Linux, Memory, Microsoft Windows XP, OPEN SOURCE, Xubuntu, Xubuntu 8.04, low-power machine

Discussion threads 2008-05-04

Microsoft's $240 million says Facebook no fad after all

Microsoft's $240 million says Facebook no fad after all$15 Billion for FaceBook??? Can you say Dot bomb IICome on, $15 Billion???? Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.Hey, I like facebook for what it is but there is no way its worth $15 billion and at some point people...

Tags: IPO, Investment, revenue, Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-24

Mossberg reviews Ubuntu

Mossberg reviews UbuntuYou are missing a poll optionI'm sure that 75% of the readers here could find some way of blaming MS for it. Please add that as a poll option and let's see. :)RE: Mossberg reviews UbuntuI feel disappointed. It appears that Dell has let us down.There is however...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Mossberg, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Countdown to Leopard: Snapshots are a good thing

I took note of a recent thread about recovering trashed files on Apple's Mac OS X Server list. The discussion points out the goodness we will gain from the Time Machine utility due in Mac OS X 10.5, a k a Leopard. And it also reveals a common user error...

Tags: Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Recovery, Apple Mac OS X, User, File, SubRosaSoft, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-09-04

Schneier: Will data reuse foster creation of a police state?

The current era of "extreme data collection" puts crytography expert Bruce Schneier in mind of how the government abused US Census data collection during World War II. Writing in Wired, Schneier recalls that Census rules specifically banned the re-use of Census data, precisely so people would provide data without fear...

Tags: Privacy, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-06-29

Podcast: 'Google Gears' vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps

Podcast: 'Google Gears' vies to be de facto tech for offline Web appsThis is truely a historic moment. We will finally be getting a standard wayto do off-line web applications. It will be great to have all of my contacts and old emails available off-line for gmail, though I would...

Tags: Podcasts, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Google Inc., Google Gears, podcast, Web

Discussion threads 2007-05-30

HP Compaq 6515b

Historically, HP's business notebooks haven't sparked a lot of excitement. Their button-down cases were always stocked with a decent mix of components for a reasonable price, but there didn't seem to be anything to set the systems apart from the rest of the field. The HP Compaq 6515b, however, has...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2007-03-30

Open source software for education

Open source software for educationTyping skillsI agree with the general thrust of what you are saying, but I disagree that "typing skills could take years". I took a 1-semester typing course in junior high school, and I was fine with that. I was touch typing after that, and my speed...

Tags: Keyboards, Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, One Laptop Per Child project, keyboard, software, Microsoft Office, open-source software

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

22" LCDs become the new reasonably priced monitor

22" LCDs become the new reasonably priced monitorwhat's the resolution?don't those top out at 1366 or something like that?Idea...?I use a 42 inch LCD TV as a screen for my PC... The only problem is, that it's still to small... :-( , but that's probably because you get used to...

Tags: Monitors & displays, Secunia, LCD, monitor

Discussion threads 2006-10-19

Apple comes clean on MacBook vent cover up

Apple comes clean on MacBook vent cover up"Clear" film??? Definitely a manufacturer error.If a smart manufacturer wants someone to remove packing material from an item, especially some sort of film on a non-visual item such as a vent as opposed to a keyboard, they would make it contrast with the...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., laptop computer, manufacturer

Discussion threads 2006-06-06

C7M_CN700_XPeSP2Image.zip 2005-11-25 (Windows)

This package supports the following driver models:Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Embedded Controller Microsoft System Management Bus Host Controller ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller Microsoft Windows Management Interface for ACPI Microsoft Composite Battery Closed Caption Decoder OTI CD-ROM Drive CD-ROM Drive CD-ROM Drive force CDDA accurate CD-ROM Drive (force CDDA...

Tags: Processor, ISA, Logitech, AGP, Microsoft Windows, USB, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., IMAPI, EISA, Play, RCC, AcerView, PCI, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-11-25

OpenDocument could 'turn everything inside out'

OpenDocument could 'turn everything inside out'Self-important bunkAn office file format will NOT change the world, whether it's ODF or Metro or PDF. The format in which the data is saved does not alter how people do thier work. It may facilitate collaboration, and may even show some productivity...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDoc, OpenDocument Format, Sun Microsystems Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-10-05

NP ToolBox 7.0 (Mobile)

NP ToolBox 7.0 is a premium medical calculator and rapid reference for the Nurse Practitioner working in the Critical Care, Emergency or Primary Care Environment. Healthcare providers have been able to reduce valuable time, stress, and error by using this product. This product also provides substantial textbook type content in...

Tags: Mobile, Module, NP ToolBox 7.0, Open Source

Software downloads 2005-10-05

Intel releases new high-end Xeon processors

Intel releases new high-end Xeon processorsAnd in published benchmarks the new Xeon...... got it's butt kicked big time by Opteron which was TWICE as fast as Itanic II and SEVEN times faster than the latest Xeon just released today. That's makes Intel products nothing more than Roadkill.Just one BIG problem!No...

Tags: Processors, Servers, computer, Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron, processor, Itanic II, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-03-29

Berlind's PodTop

Updated belowOver the past few weeks, my ZDNet colleague David Berlind has been in the podcasting kitchen whipping up a studio. The latest results are part of Berlind's Transparency Project. Berlind kindly credits me along with Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles and Phil Terrone of EndGadget with helping him...

Tags: audio, FX Send

Blog posts 2005-01-20

Athena CF Enabler 2.0.0 (Mobile)

The Athena CF EnablerYes, the CF slot on the Sony Clié can hold a CompactFlash Storage card, but its use was severely limited... until now. The Athena CF Enabler enables your Sony Clié to use the CompactFlash slot for standard CompactFlash memory. With the Athena CF Enabler product, you can...

Tags: Storage Card, Sony Corp., Card, CompactFlash, Mobile, Memory Stick, Movie, Storage, Sony Clié, Athena America, Athena CF Enabler, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2003-10-25