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A pic to read, and why is this in a tech blog, READ!
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today
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The Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today — and inadvertently published it in the process. Some investors were undoubtedly rattled to see, as our tipster did late this afternoon, the Apple CEO's obit cross the wire and then suddenly disappear. Jobs's battle with pancreatic cancer, and speculation over his health, jarred Wall Street earlier this year and continues to be the subject of speculation. The Times weighed in on the matter as recently as last month, when columnist Joe Nocera spoke with the secretive tech executive. But news organizations routinely prepare obituaries in advance, even for the healthy. And if Bloomberg readers had seen the internal story slug, "testjobs," their jitters might have abated. The obit, which we've obtained and reprinted after the jump, is a bit macabre to read but should not scare you out of your Apple shares. (UPDATE: Bloomberg has "retracted" its obituary, and the retraction is also after the jump.) More interesting are the accompanying notes for Bloomberg reporters!
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D, Advising at keen as The WebsterRead my other blog, http://the-peoples-patriot.blogspot.com/ and or http://letslets.blogspot.comI just signed up at viddler.com and found this, sooo...
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White space and what to do with it...
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In 18 months you'll be abe to "Pay by cell Phone"
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Moving your wallet from your back pocket to your front pocket
D, Advising at keen as The WebsterRead my other blog, http://the-peoples-patriot.blogspot.com/ and or http://letslets.blogspot.comFrom "Steelhoof" a member letsnet.org
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FTC all but bans robocalls
WASHINGTON--The Federal Trade Commission essentially banned robocalls Tuesday--creating new rules that telemarketers may only send the prerecorded sales pitches to people who actually want to receive them.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10021092-38.html?hhTest=1&tag=nl.e433
AND
Microsoft's data centers growing by the truckload
Once upon a time, Microsoft used to fill its data centers one server at a time. Then it bought them by the rack. Now it's preparing to load up servers by the shipping container.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10020902-56.html?hhTest=1&tag=nl.e433
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Thank to Leo and giz and David for the 56K Modem Emulator
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http://www.lazylaces.com/56Kmodem/
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'Malvertizement' epidemic visits house of Newsweek.com
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Symptoms felt 'all over the net'
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Monday 18th August 2008 19:48 GMT
Newsweek.com is one of several high-profile websites suspected of running rogue banner advertisements that try to trick visitors into installing fraudulent anti-malware programs, security researchers warn.
The malicious ads have been appearing on Newsweek's website via feeds that carry the Washingtonpost.com address, according to this post on the Bluetack Internet Security Solutions site. The ads redirect users to a site that falsely claims users' PCs are infected with malware and urges them to buy and install software
that will remedy the problem. The banner graphic posed as an ad for
www.easy-forex.com, which bills itself as an online foreign currency exchange.
Click on this link, you need to read the rest of the story for you own good, or Just don't click on any ads.
D, Advising at keen as The WebsterRead my other blog, http://the-peoples-patriot.blogspot.com/ and or http://letslets.blogspot.comMystery web attack hijacks your clipboard
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A new web-based attack is making the rounds that tries to spread poisonous links by hijacking end users' clipboards.
Forum discussions all over report the same thing: the commenter surfs to a seemingly legitimate site (MSNBC.com comes up more than once) and suddenly a malicious link is copied to the clipboard. The rogue link remains even after the user copies a new batch of text. The only way to remove it is to reboot the computer.
You'll need to read the rest of the story for the who, what, where, and how of it from theregister.co.uk.
The attack has been reported by Firefox users running both OS X and Windows, but we wouldn't be surprised to hear that other browsers and operating systems are also vulnerable. It's unclear exactly how the attack spreads. The Spyware Sucks blog posits here that banner ads transmitting bad Adobe Flash code is responsible, and that makes sense to us.
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New PCs Can Wake up When They Get Phone Calls
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NEW YORK — Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology that will let computers "wake up"
from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet.
Current computers have to be fully on to receive a call, making them
impractical and energy-wasters as replacements for the telephone.
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Leo Leporte's 6 for safe computing. You ask me to find it, so...
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I keep trying to get you to do any one but if you'll listen to leo that fine. What's inportant is that your safe. And I've made it a clickable link to go to his Show note were you'll see them for yourselves.
Leo’s Six Rules for Safe Computing:
1. Don’t open email attachments; even if it’s from someone you know. If you do get something from someone you know, make sure that they really sent it to you. Email attachments are the number one way viruses and trojan horses get into your email. You might also want to turn off HTML email in Outlook and other programs. HTML emails are just as dangerous as rogue web sites, and can spread infections just by previewing them.
2. Don’t click links in email. That link could lead you to a phishing site, or the link may lead you to install malicious software. Copy and paste links into your browser, or type them in by hand instead. Another reason to disable HTML email - the HTML hides the real destination of that seemingly innocuous link.
3. Don’t download files from places you aren’t absolutely sure are safe. Stick with the well known sites. Teeneagers who use filesharing software like BitTorrent, Azureus, Kazaa, Morpheus, Grokster, and Limewire, often unwittingly download spyware and trojans. If you must, quarantine all downloads then scan them a few days later with an updated anti-virus.
4. Update your OS regularly! Turn on automatic updates in OS X and Windows. Apply all critical updates immediately. Criminals often create hacks within 24 hours of Microsoft’s patches (these are called zero day exploits), so you need to protect yourself the day the patches appear.
5. Use a firewall. The best firewall is a hardware router - the kind you use to share an internet connection. Even if they’re not billed as firewalls, they are, and they’re quite effective. I also recommend turning on your operating system’s firewall - even if you have a router - but I don’t recommend third-party software firewalls. They cause more problems than they solve.
6. Never run as an administrator in any operating system. Administrators have way too many priveleges that malicious people/code can take advantage of. Run as a limited user as much as possible. Windows Vista, Linux, and Mac OSX allow you to run a majority of features, but with some additional safety, as a limited user.
Hour 1
D, Advising at keen as The WebsterRead my other blog, http://the-peoples-patriot.blogspot.com/ and or http://letslets.blogspot.comNew PCs can wake up when they get phone calls
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By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK - Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet.
Current computers have to be fully on to receive a call, making them impractical and energy-wasters as replacements for the telephone.
The new component Intel is announcing Thursday will let computers automatically return to a normal, full-powered state when a call comes in. The computer can activate its microphone and loudspeaker to alert the user, then connect the call.
"This certainly helps the PC become a much better center of communications in the home," said Trevor Healy, chief executive of Jajah, which will be the first Internet telephone company to utilize the feature.
The first Intel motherboards with the Remote Wake capability will be shipping in the next month, said Joe Van De Water, director of consumer product marketing for Intel.
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From Dick DeBartolo, The Giz Wiz
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http://www.gizwizbiz.com/
Dick's gadget spots are low to medium-tech and light hearted. The light-hearted part stems from his second career as MAD Magazine's MADDEST Writer. For more than forty years he's been writing many of those famous off-the-wall movie, tv and ad take-offs. He started his MAD writing career in high school when he submitted an article. He thought it had been returned when his own envelope came back. The envelope was stuffed with cardboard, a check and a note: "ha, ha, thought you were rejected, but we bought your piece. Dick wrote the book GOOD DAYS AND MAD, which is all about the insane way MAD founder William M. Gaines ran his multi-million dollar empire. (No secretaries, no switchboard, even white wine in the water cooler one day!)
Dick appears regularly on WORLD NEWS NOW, the overnight ABC Network news program showing the latest gizmos and gadgets. He also appears on http://www.twit.tv/DGW Leo Laporte's, the tech guy, webcast website and has appeared several times on the HAPPY HOUR on the Fox Business Channel.
It's fun and so is he.
See and hear him:
GizWiz.Biz USB Smart Button
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From my tweet at twitter.com
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Steve Jobs has confirmed that the iPhone 3G has a kill switch that can remotely remove software from the devices. http://tinyurl.com/64fyko
D, Advising at keen as The WebsterRead my other blog, http://the-peoples-patriot.blogspot.com/ and or http://letslets.blogspot.comThe air car, that our Gov. won't let in the US
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See the video on Youtube
This is the same company which-a few months back-invented
a car that costs only $2500 new. BUT it's
not available in the USA
. Why is it that a gasless vehicle that eliminates the
reason to buy oil from foreign countries hasn't nipped the
minds of US manufacturers? How bad can this be for
anybody, anywhere in the world -- except for foreign oil?
The Compressed Air Car, developed by Motor Development International (MDI)
Founder Guy Negre, might be the best thing
to happen to the motor engine, and people all
over the world.
The $12,700 CityCAT, one of the planned
Air Car models, reaches 68 mph, goes for a
range of 125 miles. It will take only a few
minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at
gas stations equipped with custom air
compressor units. MDI says it should cost
only around $2 to fill the car up with
340 liters of air!
The Air Car will be starting production soon,
thanks to India 's TATA Motors.
Forget corn! That's a joke.
There's fuel, user friendly, pocketbook
friendly fuel!
What can be better than air?
Cool Concept :)
Now
If We will just DEMAND
this technology in
the USA , we can tell
Saudi Arabia , Venezuela &
dirty foreign oil to take a
hike!
In the meantime we suffer because of the
worst do nothing Congress in US history.
D, Advising at keen as The WebsterRead my other blog, http://the-peoples-patriot.blogspot.com/ and or http://letslets.blogspot.comFriday, August 8, 2008
tech humor
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Spoofing, it's happening at your ISP. Maybe
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53% of ISP's are failing on having put the patch on SPOOFING. So more than likely your being spoofed and that's not good.
Go here to wikiapedia to find out about what spoofing is.
And go here to listen to Steve Gibson speak on what's happen or not happening.
So, who is this Steve Gibson? Go here at Wikipedia to find out.
But here's the biggie from Steve for right now, in your browser, type this into you URL box or as you might know it as the address box for or where you put in the "http://www. something .com.
This is an OARC site, OARC is the outfit that watchs over the Internet.
Go to my Opera blog to see pic of what I got as a reply to me test. I got a "Great", but if you get a POOR that's as bad as it gets. Call your ISP...
Then test again in a week, NO change I'd leave for a better ISP myself.
And don't keep this info to yourself send others here so they can help themselfs as well. The Spoofers are telling other spoofers ya know.
D, Advising at keen as The WebsterRead my other blog, http://the-peoples-patriot.blogspot.com/ and or http://letslets.blogspot.comMonday, August 4, 2008
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) gave you the power
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EFF Releases "Switzerland" ISP Testing Tool Empowers Internet Users on Eve of FCC Comcast Action
Just click on this pic on EFF's home page for the rest of the story and the free download.San Francisco - Hours before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to take action against Comcast for violating the FCC's net neutrality principles, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is releasing "Switzerland," a software tool for customers to test the integrity of their Internet communications.
"The sad truth is that the FCC is ill-equipped to detect ISPs interfering with your Internet connection," said Fred von Lohmann, EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney. "It's up to concerned Internet users to investigate possible network neutrality violations, and EFF's Switzerland software is designed to help with that effort. Comcast isn't the first, and certainly won't be the last, ISP to meddle surreptitiously with its subscribers' Internet communications for its own benefit."
Link to the EFF home page and/or listen to Leo Leporte Podcast
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Just a little something fun on tech...
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Link to theHelp page for Voice in the Opera browser
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OK, here's the link to the Help page at Opera.com to find out how "Voice" works, http://help.opera.com/Windows/9.27/en/voice.html I should have put it into the blog before. Sorry.
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From Keith Combo's blog, Favorite Windows Vista Runtime Improvements (RTI)
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There’s an acronym from the past for you. Run Time Improvements (RTI). I am always looking for ways to squeeze another speed improvement out of Windows Vista. In fact, a few weeks ago I made some changes to my Dell Latitude D820 and it made a very real difference in how the machine performed.
Before I list out all of the stuff below, keep in mind I am willing to sacrifice some features for the sake of overall system performance. I’m usually looking for all of the horsepower out of my machine for a couple of reasons. Video encoding or virtualization workloads.
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