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Archive for February, 2008
Owner of Network Solutions Shuts Down Murray Sabrin’s Money Bomb
For those of you who don't know Murray Sabrin, he's running for Senate in New Jersey. He has been endorsed by Ron Paul and is a strict Constitutionalist. I really don't like NetSol now... First this now this?!? Below is an Official Press Release from the Sabrin Campaign... Democratic Private Equity Firm Halts Ron Paul Revolution! Jersey City, [...]
Billboard Liberation Front vs. ATT + NSA
AT&T, Your world delivered. To the NSA. Snipped from a BLF missive: The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and [...]
7 Sites You Can Only Find On The “Gopher Internet”
Yes, I said the Gopher Internet. No, I don’t mean little rodent things.You see, way back before these new-fangled graphical web browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer were invented, there were two Webs. There was the world wide web, and then there was the Gopher web. The World Wide Web has, obviously, gotten pretty popular. [...]
Microsoft Slapped by EU With $1.35B Fine
Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. The software giant will appeal against the fine which follows a long-running dispute between it and EU regulators. Microsoft's general counsel, Brad Smith, insisted the company had met the commission's [...]
Track Down Whoever Keeps Calling with 800Notes.com
Tired of getting phone calls from the same 800-type phone number, but have no idea who's calling? 800Notes.com, a free user-submitted reverse phone directory, lets you see who might be ringing, whether it's a sales firm, debt collection agency, or other cloaked caller. Whether or not you find a match depends on if anybody else has reported the [...]
Manage Your Online Reputation
Are you happy with the results people get back when they Google your name? If not, there are easy ways to monitor and guide what information is published about you online. Two years ago Lifehacker.com covered how to have a say in what Google says about you, and more recently, and how to track down anyone online. But a rash of social media sites [...]
Figure Out If It’s Malware at exeLibrary.com
Search engine exeLibrary demystifies the EXEs running in your Task Manager to help you get to the bottom of whether or not that cryptic process actually needs to be running (and whether or not it's malware). Just search any process when you're unclear of its purpose in exeLibrary, and it'll give you a detailed description of what the process [...]
NYC Seizes Designer Fakes in Chinatown Valued at More Than $1 Million
NEW YORK — More than $1 million of counterfeit Gucci, Prada, Fendi, Rolex and Coach goods have been seized in an early morning Chinatown raid by the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement. The raid Tuesday came after a two-month investigation by city officials in the special unit, which was created in 2006 to crack down on trademark [...]
Use a Googlemail.com Address to Lessen Gmail Spam
The Digital Inspiration blog points out a Gmail trick that's been just under the surface all along. Everyone who has an "name@gmail.com" address can also receive mail sent to "name@googlemail.com." What's the big deal? Well, knowing this gives you a stronger hand when you fight against spam, bacn, and all that other not-so-important but [...]
Stupid .htaccess Tricks
Apache server software provides distributed (i.e., directory-level) configuration via Hypertext Access files. These .htaccess files enable the localized fine-tuning of Apache’s universal system-configuration directives, which are defined in Apache’s main configuration file. The localized .htaccess directives must operate from within [...]
Stores aren’t allowed to set minimum/maximum amounts or a fee for CREDIT CARDS
You have probably seen signs like these from mom and pop stores who thinks they're NOT obliged to follow the rules like everyone else. This is a very common practice, even for a franchise of a major corporate chain in college towns where college students are not aware of the policy. "$x.xx minimum purchase with credit cards" or "$x.xx minimum [...]
Encryption Legislation Goes Overboard
Bills pending in the Michigan and Washington state legislatures would mandate that personal information stored in business computers be “encrypted.†Legislatures are unwise to engage in such micro-management. Pending Michigan Senate Bill (SB) 1022 would forbid a business from storing personally identifiable information in a database [...]
Researchers: Disk Encryption Not Secure
A team from Princeton University has developed ways to break disk encryption, including Bitlocker, Truecrypt, Apple encryption, and Linux encryption, if the computer is in sleep mode or sitting at a password prompt, or even if it's just been turned off. (more...)
Stanford Waives Tuition for Middle-Class Students
Morning Edition, February 21, 2008 · Stanford University says it will no longer charge tuition to undergraduates whose parents earn less than $100,000 a year. For students whose parents make less than $60,000, the university will also waive room and board costs. Source
Google Ventures Into Health Records Business
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader. The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 [...]
Disk encryption in Fedora: Past, present, and future
These days, data is mobile. Every day, sensitive corporate data leaves a company’s headquarters on a flash drive or an employee’s laptop. Regardless of where it is going, mobile data can be an I.T. department’s worst nightmare. In fact, the 2006 “CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey,†a joint effort by [...]
HOWTO: Making a USB Key Bootable in Linux
When I needed to make a USB key (aka. USB pen drive, USB memory stick, whatever) bootable under Linux I found there was a number of pages on the Internet that listed the steps needed. Some of these pages required you to do some steps from DOS and/or used the syslinux command. I did not want to boot DOS in order to get the job done. I wanted to [...]
TurnItIn.com
This is old news but still deserves a mention. In case you haven't been a student in awhile TurnItIn is a service for educational institutions. They make it compulsive for students to allow their paper to be submitted to Turnitin or receive a failing grade of 0. The service, a profit entity, operates by archiving student papers to detect [...]
Vista has improved with SP1
Got it through MSDN... the real release, not the beta. Everything to do with file transfer has improved substantially... Copy, delete, move.. large, small files.. all smooth now. C'mon Microsoft.. you can do it!
Facebook can ruin your life… and so can MySpace, Bebo…
People will post just about anything on social networking sites. And the information can be used against them. Suddenly, those saucy pictures and intimate confessions on social networking sites can be taken down and used in evidence against you in ways never dreamed of. In the judicial backwater of a New Jersey federal court, a case is being [...]
