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- Twitter's "me too" anti-spam strategy
- With Twitter's continuing growth, its popularity is logically starting to attract the attention of malicious parties, like spammers, phishers, and malware authors who wouldn't mind the fact that nobody is following them when they're actively updating several hundred users with their latest propositions. Last' week's Twitter announcement...
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- 29% of Internet users buy from spam emails
- 29% of Internet users have purchased goods from spam emails, according to Marshal. The most commonly purchased items include sexual enhancement pills, software, adult material and luxury items such as watches, jewellery and clothing. Botnets are networks comprised of thousands of infected personal computers, controlled remotely by criminals. They have...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.And used "roll" instead of "role" in the post"TSA actually discusses FAMs increasing roll post 9/11..."From this statement, I would guess that the TSA is somehow increasing their spin? ;)You misspelled 'Knew'on your poll ;-) ...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.
- Update: TSA has commented on the CNN story on their website. From our good friend Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix Security Digest, and memorable quotes from Samuel L. Jackson, apparently we can draw the conclusion that we have snakes on planes, but not Federal...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Fired Director of IT accused of destroying organ donor information of former company
- Here's a story that will make you absolutely sick. I used to live in Houston, time to time I still check out the Houston Chronicle... which I did this morning. I was interested in reading more about the altercation between the Astros pitcher and general manager, but then I stumbled...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Planes, trains, and automobiles
- Planes, trains, and automobilesRE: Planes, trains, and automobilesIt's all about fear and control. Since planes can cover a greater distance AND are easier to control points of entry are limited to a plane and fewer connection points they also offer a higher profile of success. The natural fear of flying...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thuslyHand Sanitizer Bombinterestingly enough, it's probably completely possible to build a bomb out of a can of hand sanitizer and a lighter. well... maybe not a bomb persee... but enough of a distraction i'm sure.i know i'm not giving away...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- A professor deals with political climate around climate change
- I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Why the GOS will fail
- Why the GOS will failOligopolies rule, like it or not"It was a policy choice to allow these duopolies to return. New policy choices can restore competition and free the bits."The truth is that it is SO expensive to set up the entire infrastructure that we CAN'T have "loads of competition"....
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts on virtualization trends and role of IT operations efficiency for SOA
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 24, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, our experts examine virtualization trends through the acquisition this summer of XenSource...
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Is Relational Relevant?
- Last week, some friends of mine from Ingres, the early relational database management system, attended a retrospective on relational database systems held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley with other database pioneers from Oracle, Informix, IBM and Sybase. I was an early employee at Ingres which was the...
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- What Yahoo's bio for co-founder and 'Chief Yahoo!' Jerry Yang says
- Yesterday, some folks here at CNET Networks asked if I had anything to say about Jerry Yang replacing Terry Semel as CEO at Yahoo. Yahoo's media relations site lists Yang as co-founder and "Chief Yahoo!." I couldn't think of anything to say that hadn't already been said. ...
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- What will many cores mean to future Windows releases?
- What will many cores mean to future Windows releases?Not a Microsoft issue, its an industry wide issue.Frankly I am surprised that you seem to think this is an MS only issue. From EVERYTHING I have seen this is an industry wide issue.not a new problemI have read several articles...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps to Avert Potential Epidemics
- Epidemic. It is a word that can strike as much fear in a population as yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie theater. Whether the disease is SARS, the Bird Flu, or the West Nile Virus, the key to addressing a medical emergency - as well as to quell a dangerous...
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- NJ court: Citizens may videotape government meetings
- The New Jersey Supreme Court issued a wake-up all to state and local governments this week: Wake up - its the YouTube era. Robert Wayne Tarus was arrested after he tried to videotape two Pine Hill Borough Council meetings in 2000. Yesterday the state Supreme Court ruled that...
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Viacom to partner with Joost
- Despite its well publicized spat with YouTube, Viacom is moving ahead with more plans to offer its content online, by partnering with the yet-to-be launched peer-to-peer (P2P) television service, Joost. The content made available will include television shows from MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 and Nickelodeon, as as feature films...
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Real Frameworks for a Service-Oriented World
- The beginning of every custom software delivery project is the same - check the field color: green or brown? It's usually brown, let's face it; draw the same diagrams. How many ways are there of representing N-tier architecture? write the same stock code. Let's map objects to relational data. Let's...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Six trends for 2007 and the 21st century
- eSchoolNews editor Gregg Downey offers six prognostications for the coming year. #1. Web 2.0. YouTube is just the latest and most spectacular example of how the democratization of the internet is about to change everything. For education, it seems to me, the populism inherent in the internet...
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- Do ordinary users care about data portability? And if not, should they? Four social networks respond.
- Social networks operate on the premise that it should be as easy as possible for a user to input their data into the system: user profiles, blog posts, media etc, but if they try to move their data someplace else or simply want to make a backup, more than often...
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Is Web 2.0 Darth Vader?
- Bill Thompsons essay on The Register warns that "Web 2.0 marks the dictatorship of the presentation layer, a triumph of appearance over architecture that any good computer scientist should immediately dismiss as unsustainable."He goes on to imply that the the fate of the Internet hangs in the balance, heading down...
- Blog posts 2006-11-26
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