"Scareware" Vendors Sued (3)
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This is good: Microsoft Corp. and the state of Washington this week filed lawsuits against a slew of "scareware" purveyors, scam artists who use fake security alerts to frighten consumers into paying for worthless computer security software. The case filed by the Washington attorney general's office names Texas-based Branch Software and its owner James Reed McCreary IV, alleging that McCreary's company caused targeted PCs to pop up misleading security alerts about security threats on the ...
Huge System for Web Surveillance Discovered in China - NYTimes.com (1)
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A Canadian human rights group has uncovered a system that tracks politically charged text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture of which eBay’s Skype is a partner.
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"It’s ‘X-Files’ without the aliens.”
50 Years of NASA (1)
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It's hard to believe we've been living in the Space Age for over fifty years. I remember watching the first Space Shuttle launch at school in 1981, and feeling a rush because even though I was young, I knew something really neat and new was happening, but by that time going to space wasn't new. I was born after the last moon landing, and can only imagine what it felt like to watch Neil Armstrong ...
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Advanced Website Diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools (20)
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Running a website can be complicated—so we've provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having duplicate titles and descriptions), other issues can be bigger (such as your website not being reachable). While Google Webmaster Tools can't tell you exactly what you need to change, it can help you to recognize that there ...
Google to celebrate SC data center opening - Forbes.com (1)
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is having a party to mark the completion of its new data center near Moncks Corner.
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The data center will have dozens of computers that will be part of the company's worldwide network to handle Internet traffic.
ISP Behavorial Targeting Test To Begin In UK Tomorrow (2)
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The initials for British Telecom ("BT") might now come to stand for "behavioral targeting" as the company prepares its opt-in trial with Phorm. Phorm is a UK-based firm that seeks to tap ISP behavioral data in an effort to serve more relevant ads to end users. The BT-Phorm "Webwise" test begins tomorrow and promises both "protection against online fraud and makes ads that appear on participating websites more relevant to your interests." Click to continue ...
SpaceX Falcon 1 Makes History This Evening: Earth Orbit Achieved On Fourth Attempt (23)
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SpaceX’s Falcon 1 spacecraft made history tonight as the first privately developed launch vehicle to reach earth orbit from the ground. “About nine and a half minutes after launch, the second stage engine shuts down, and the Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to orbit the Earth,” the company said. This was their fourth attempt. The previous three attempts failed to reach orbit - the last launch, in August, lost two ...
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тaмás said:
nemsokara jonnek a fapadosok!
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Devin said:
Some cool news on an otherwise pretty boring day. (heh)
Woman wakes up, should have smelled the coffee - Yahoo! News (1)
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It wasn't just the caffeine that gave an Iowa woman an extra jolt after she had her morning coffee. It was also the bat she found in the filter.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/28/realscoop-tells-you-when-politicians-and-celebrities-are-lying/ (23)
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Have you ever wanted to know when politicians are lying? A startup called RealScoop thinks it can nail it down for you in real-time with the help of voice analysis technology that it claims is used widely in law enforcement and fraud prevention. Dubbed the Believability Meter, RealScoop’s analysis technology analyzes over 100 vocal elements of the human voice and performs over 1,000 calculations per second to find out if a politician or celebrity is ...
The Mother of All Search Functions - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog (2)
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David Pogue's technology column has appeared each Thursday in The Times since 2000. Each week, he also writes the Times e-mail column
Mouse: The Best Mouse You've Ever Had (30)
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Yesterday we asked what the best mouse you've ever pointed and clicked with is, and hundreds of testimonials later, we're here to report back. From high DPI gaming mice to ergonomic RSI-killers to graphics tablets to portable mice perfect for laptop use, we had a ton of power users extolling the virtues of their chosen input devices. We've compiled the mice earning top marks into the following roundup of peripheral goodness for your consideration. Read ...
I’ve Got Domain Renewal Fatigue; 5 Days to Go (1)
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Looming price hike means it’s time to renew your domain names. Over the past few days I’ve renewed thousands of dollars worth of domain names. The price of renewing most domain names will shoot up on October 1 as many of the registries increase prices. That includes VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), which runs .com and .net. Registrars will pass these price hikes to customers. Last time before prices increased I renewed domains a couple months out. ...
Eric shared as favorite Iron: Chrome for privacy fanatics (8)
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Filed under: Windows, Google, Open Source, BrowsersIf you want to use Google Chrome but are concerned or have questions about Google's policies for collecting usage data, you might want to give Iron a try.Iron, developed by German software company SRWare is Chrome stripped of all the user ID information that gave the German government cause for concern.I don't speak German, but the guys at the Incomplete-News Project have helpfully published an English translation. According to ...
Online safety tips from Google and AARP (7)
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Now more than ever before, older Americans are logging on and surfing the web to stay in touch with family and friends, read websites and blogs, share photos, watch videos, and run online businesses. Like all Internet users, they're sometimes faced with unsafe activity online, such as viruses and malware, and they're looking for resources to learn how to keep their information on the web safe, private, and under their control.So we teamed up with ...
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jeddings said:
Looky -- it's Shuman with some helpful safety tips! :-)
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shuman said:
A new series of video tutorials we just launched with AARP, to help older users learn the basics of online safety.
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