(1) (Terms Of Service) See acceptable use policy.
(2) (Type Of Service) A field in an IP packet (IP datagram) that is used for quality of service (QoS). The TOS field is 8 bits, broken into five subfields.
(2) (Type Of Service) A field in an IP packet (IP datagram) that is used for quality of service (QoS). The TOS field is 8 bits, broken into five subfields.
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- Inside the Google Chrome OS security model
- The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- What the duck? Aflac gets quackin' on Facebook
- Social_Networking = Privacy disasterntHmmYou're right. If anyone knew I was a fan of the Aflac duck it would be curtains for my privacy. :)People do not understandWhen you put your pictures, location,hobbies, job, kids and so on the net.That site owns that data and it iscached forever.Yes, I knowI was...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Microsoft gives up to 1 million Xbox modders the boot from Live
- Exactly. I could not agree moreno different then many other things.In NASCAR, the team owns the car, NASCAR the rest.You are perfectlly free to do with your car whatever you wish, NASCAR just will not allow you to run it at their events.Microsoft is not stopping them from modifying their...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Net pioneer GeoCities finally laid to rest
- Rest in peace GeoCities.... NTBefore they were bought, they were ahead of their time.Before they were bought, they were way ahead of their time, trying to add a social aspect to web hosting.After they were bought, they turned pretty crappy quickly. This closing only proves that being bought by Yahoo...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers
- how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Google Wave: The moral equivalent of sliced bread
- Can I get it without Google?Maybe it's just me, but anything that lets me collaborate with colleagues in a business environment should NEVER be run on a server run by a company that includes a clause in the user TOS stating all data created by the user is property of...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Twitter starts to get serious about spammers
- Great idea!Took long enough, but better late than never. I didn't know about @spam, so I've just blocked all the spam users that follow me. It would have been more constructive if I'd had an easy way to report them!Dont be like yahooWell if they do the great job...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- 73% of residential VOIP subscribers to use wireless VOIP phones by 2009
- COIP Cellular Over Internet Protocol is Bandwidth Hog Answer to VOIPInteresting,Having been an advocate of VOIP since beginning, and seeing the improvements in technology eliminating the early poor quality call clarity. Cellular Over Internet Protocol, or COIP, as in VOIP, has broken new ground with the first dial tone on...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- The Windows 7 judge and jury: Your mom
- Testers seemed to like Windows Vista before it bombed. Windows 7 has also garnered positive reviews. The natural question: How much faith should we put in early tests of Windows? Mary Jo Foley raises the question and notes that even Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is wary of...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Microsoft plays the security card in response to Google's Chrome Frame
- "Latest" phishing/malware data from NSS Labsapplies to Chrome 2. The most current Chrome is 3.0.195.21. I'm not surprised Microsoft mentions it though; they need to say something. Concering Chrome running inside IE..Yea I think they do, sort of. Correct me if I'm wrong but in Vista and beyond that plugin...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Google Docs items to show up in search
- With news like this its amazing why anyone would continue to use any of Google's services.Maybe because..maybe because they want their work to be publicly available as it is now with most web content? Including these comments sections which you continue to enjoy using even though they show up in...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Facebook ranks in privacy poll; Users like control of their content
- Facebook is ranked as one of the 10 most trusted companies when it comes to privacy, according to the findings from a survey by the Ponemon Institute, an information security research company, and TRUSTe, a widely recognized Internet privacy trustmark company. The social networking site - ranked...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- German court orders Google to change TOS - a little late
- A little late, but, great to hold Googles feet to the fire on privacy and ownership issues. We can not just depend on Google's "do no evil" clause, we must be vigilant against Google and all other providers.True......but as soon as Google made the change A YEAR AGO, don't you...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- German court orders Google to change TOS - a little late
- File this under the slow march of justice. A German court just ordered Google to remove certain clauses from its terms of service because they might have given the company the ownership rights in consumer data. Only thing is, Google already removed those clauses, which it called "unfortunately framed," --...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Source code for Skype eavesdropping trojan in the wild
- Social Engineering?According the the Symantic press releasehttp://www.prwire.com.au/pr/14463/symantec-threat-bulletin-trojan-peskyspy-recording-skype-voip-conversation"The Trojan is detected by Symantec as Trojan.Peskyspy and can be downloaded to a computer by way of tricking the user with an E-mail scam or other social engineering tactic....The Trojan is targeting Windows API hooks, a technique used to alter the planned behavior...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Industry fight against Google hurts education
- So it's NOT OK for Microsoft to control technology......but it IS OK for Google to try and take over the world of information?Sorry...not buying it.Google does no evil, just IS evil?Look at the account TOS. Anything that requires an active Google account -- gMail, gTalk, gApps, etc. -- is...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- HiMyTribe helps iPhone, iPod touch users network with GPS [review]
- For the last couple of weeks I've been playing with Never Alone Anymore's HiMyTribe iPhone/iPod touch app, which lets users network for business or pleasure using the device's built-in GPS functionality. A social networking tool, HiMyTribe fuses aspects of Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'
- Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'"As Authorized""[i]... or as authorized by Amazon ...[/i]" seems to leave a pretty big hole in the TOS.RE: Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'since 1984 book is available thousands of places, the law suit has little merit in terms of damages regardless of how much the download...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Ridiculous lawsuit against Amazon
- Ridiculous lawsuit against AmazonRE: a quick read of [the TOS] shows that Amazon absolutely [has] the right your claim is ludicrous. The health insurance industry wants to takeyour money until you get sick-- then you're on your own; the creditcard industry reserves the right to change your lending agreement--...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
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