Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
I've never been one to use text message functions on cell phones, mostly because I absolutely cannot stand using the teeny tiny keys on a phone keypad to try tapping out letters to say something. I'm not up on the shorthand that most people seem to use with the ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Here's a good illustration of why you should be careful about what pictures you put online even if they're in a "private" area of some kind.
This story on Wired.com tells the story of a security flaw that was discovered in MySpace last fall.
This flaw allowed people to view photo galleries ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
These guys at Georgia Tech are working on an even faster version of Wi-Fi... They're working on building 60ghz transceivers that will be able to move large amounts of data really fast.. It's only supposed to have a short (roughly 30 foot or so) range, but the ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
This story makes it pretty obvious that file sharing can sometimes have risks and not just limited to those that involve possible malware infected files. The danger comes in what you allow a file-sharing program such as limewire to have access to.
If you use such a program, make certain ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
If you're a fan of Marvel Comics then you already know who Iron Man is. Billionaire Industrialist Tony Stark builds a powered suit of armor to save his own live in a desperate situation. Later when he returns to normal life, he modifies the armor and goes into ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
I just read an interesting piece on space.com about plans to terraform Mars. That's right, there is actually serious talk about a project that it's proponents claim could be done by the end of the century, whose goal will be to turn Mars into a place with shirtsleeve weather ...
Posted in Science, Space, Tech | 1 Comment »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Just when you're getting used to something somebody has to come along and change it. such is the case with Micro$oft and the tool used to search for stuff on your local hard drives.
Frankly, I don't really like the changes I've seen so far. Strangely enough, I LIKED ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
I'm wondering, why would somebody go to the trouble of building a website or blog if they did not want people to read it?
The thing is, a LOT of people appear to not want readers. You can tell by the color schemes they use on the page if they ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Is there reason for concern here? I think so. Anytime you get one organization with access to that much information about the surfing, searching and page viewing habits of large numbers of people there is serious potential for abuse.
The fact that the data is individually identifiable is part ...
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
I just saw an AP story that says the EU is looking into Google's Privacy practices
Basically, they have a problem with the fact that Google uses cookies to track the searching habits of it's users and that they keep this information for quite a while. Google counters with self ...
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