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- 4 signs that it's time to restore your iPhone
- Does your iPhone exhibit any of the following symptoms?: Laggy access to the Text/SMS application Longer that five second delay to get a live image in the Camera application Long pause before being able to scroll in Contacts Delay when clicking on the letter...
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Can the U.S. CTO avoid being steamrolled by bureaucracy?
- There has been a lot of chatter about President Elect Barack Obama's plan to name a U.S. chief technology officer and the biggest challenge for anyone who takes the job is this: How do you avoid being consumed by a bulky bureaucratic machine known as the government? ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- Report: Chinese hack into White House network
- Report: Chinese hack into White House networkI'm not surprised.The first thing Bush's aids did was to switch everything over to Microsoft "solutions". Serves us right. I hope they found some good juicy stuff and put it up on the Internet.RE: Report: Chinese hack into White House networkand sometimes...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Can we really go paperless?
- Can we really go paperless?paper is madefrom sapling and cotton for the most part. Complaining about "killing" trees for paper is about like complaining about killing wheat for bread.Paper has the advantage of requiring no power, being foldable, writeable, high-resolution and you can spread it out across your desk giving...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-07
- Black market for zero day vulnerabilities still thriving
- One would assume that popular sources for zero day vulnerabilities+Poc's such as Full-Disclosure, Bugtraq or Milw0rm are the primary sources for obtaining responsibly or irresponsibly released flaws. They'd be wrong. The black market for zero day vulnerabilities and the concept of over-the-counter OTC trade of zero day flaws, has been...
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emails
- Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsAnother Fishing Expedition ....... funded by the taxpayer and brought about by partisan politics. I suspect the rumors and the interest will subside shortly after the election.RE: Judge orders Palin to preserve Yahoo emailsIf there was anything criminal in those messages, the Dems...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- News to know: Windows 7; Google; Pepcom gadgets; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: How long will Microsoft support XP and Vista? Adam O'Donnell: Webmail providers can fix Palin hack-style problems Is the HTC Dream Google...
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Adobe moves to nuke 'clipboard hijack' attacks
- Adobe moves to nuke 'clipboard hijack' attacksHow long until the next version comes out?It has been almost 2 years since Flash Player 9 came out, shouldn't the new version have come out by now?
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Adobe moves to nuke 'clipboard hijack' attacks
- Adobe has announced plans to modify the next version of its Flash Player to use an "allow/deny" system to mitigate clipboard hijack attacks. The change will be fitted into the final version of Flash Player 10 to demand user interaction when a Shockwave (.swf) file attempts to...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- The depressing future of the Internet
- The depressing future of the InternetRE: The depressing future of the InternetEverybody knows the *real* meaning of life is somehow embedded into IPv6. I don't know - I've got a fever so high I could fry a sodding egg on my forehead.Whoa! Slow down, Momar...[i]...some years ago, some military...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- The depressing future of the Internet
- A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could nuke the hell out of other countries without actually being near there. A smart professor from England then came up...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers
- Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Can Adobe mitigate 'clipboard hijack' issue?
- Adobe's product security incident response team PSIRT says it is investigating possible solutions to the clipboard hijack attacks spotted on Flash-based advertisements on high-profile Web sites. A barebones note on the PSIRT blog simply acknowledges the issue and promised more information after the investigation but, by mentioning...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- 29ò0of Internet users buy from spam emails
- 29ò0of Internet users buy from spam emailsthis total is based upon the spammer purchasing their own product...and a few innocent idiots... i was innocent once...;)spammers (nuke em!!!!)
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtwhat a bsis it really journalism when just copy and paste somebody else's BS?RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtRussia is doing an amasing job in protecting the people in he break away regions.RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Jobs: App Store is huge; iPhone has a kill switch
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs says App Store users have downloaded more than 60 million software programs and confirmed that the iPhone has a kill switch so the company can nuke brand breaking software. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jobs noted that: ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Revisiting iPhone's app kill switch
- The saga around Apple's alleged App Store kill switch gets more curious by the minute. Remember Apple's ability to nuke software remotely on the iPhone? Well, the findings and the forensic code analysis from the source of the ruckus--Jonathan Zdziarski--are being called into question Techmeme. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- News to know: Google; Web Olympics; Patch Tuesday; iPhone
- Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics melt the Internet? Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC More worries for Beijing visitors Phil Wainewright: Hello, Google, is anyone in there? Larry Dignan: Google: Our AOL investment is ‘impaired' ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely
- A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotelyMicrosoft already canAll MS has to do is flip a bit on their WGA servers and the next time your Vista logs in, you get a "not validated" message and can't do jack squat with your entire machine.The ONLY...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely
- Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say that this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus Techmeme. MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App...
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
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