Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Over the years Toyota has become a pretty big player in the automotive world. However there is now solid evidence that they have finally grown so much that they're just too big for their britches.
Desktop Nexus, a popular desktop wallpaper site, has been hit by Toyota's willingness to abuse ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
You could subtitle this: If Matt Cutts is going to attend, would you even bother making las vegas hotel reservations to attend PubCon?
[insert classic Bronx raspberry here]
My answer: Absolutely not!
To me that's kind of a "Duh Moment". Matt Cutts may be a decent enough guy (I honestly don't ...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
The state of Washington is doing something that I think is long overdue. They're going after an SEO outfit for bogus business practices. The state's Attorney General says:
these entities have ripped off their mostly mom-and-pop clientele through a pattern of unfulfilled performance promises and financial shenanigans.
By the way, ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Researchers at Perth's Edith Cowan University working with partnership with the Western Australia Police have come up with a tool that they're beta testing that they describe as a "random breath test". It's purpose is to scan computers for illicit images of the sort that won't ever appear on ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
I saw an interesting bit on Slashdot recently, it seems that the Air Force, wants to rewrite the rules of how the Internet works.
The first thing I have to say is that I fully get the need for security and the fact that their IT and security people are tired ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
In a way it's interesting to note that while a lot of people have made a lot of noise about government and corporate datamining operations, it doesn't seem like very many people have given a whole lot of thought to how much data Google (and other search engines) has access ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Weird Al Yankovic can now join the ranks of the censored. Not over anything political that I've ever heard of but rather over the lyrics to one of his songs.
That's right, MTV has "bleeped" parts of the song 'Don't Download This Song'. Specificaly, the portions bleeped were the names ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
I read that there's this huge group of spammers, a spamming botnet made up of an estimated 35,000 compromised computers and able to send upwards of ten Billion emails a day, being shut down. You'd think that with something that large being shut down that I and many others ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I read recently that YouTube (and their Google puppet-masters) are working on a deal to bring full length television shows to the screens of YouTube viewers everywhere. I have to admit that there's a certain advantage to using the computer to watch ... no HDMI wall plate to install, ...
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Saturday, October 18th, 2008
You may recall the story of the city of Monticello, Minnesota being sued by the Bridgewater Telephone Company because the city had the outlook to see that they needed a fiber optics network and since the boys in the telco's offices didn't seem to think the city needed it, they ...
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