04 Sep 2010
It’s a crisis even worse than the Twitteresque redesign, even worse than the terms of service contretemps.
I don’t like to alarm anyone, but might I suggest this research be given an incomplete?
But I have a suspicious and entirely unscientific feeling that all this research may tell us so far is that bookwormy, people-uncomfortable types do [...]
29 Aug 2010
I know what I’m getting Major League Baseball’s all-time leading home run hitter for his birthday this year.
I know, I know. I’m the most generous Dodgers’ fan ever, right? Besides being eminently appropriate, and just plain awesome-looking, this asterisk is actually useful. Especially if Barry has, say, a MacBook Air.
This asterisk is a four-port USB [...]
24 Aug 2010
The service works with clustering software from Elastra, which means that servers and storage are quickly brought online to meet changes in computing demand, he explained. It taps into Amazon’s Web services for hosted servers and storage, called Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
He argued that the offering will [...]
24 Aug 2010
Yahoo announces its first quarter earnings on Tuesday, and the results will likely be acceptable to the Street given the signaling from the company. Earlier the company said that it expects to post revenue within a forecast range of $1.28 billion to $1.38 billion. For further reference, Yahoo’s full year 2007 revenue was $6.97 billion, [...]
24 Aug 2010
The researchers painted a sober picture of the changes wrought by deforestation. Here’s the link to the full report (PDF).
Because of the ongoing forest clearance projects in areas with deep peat soils, experts warn that the region’s carbon emissions will likely climb. (In the last quarter century, companies working in the province have cleared [...]
24 Aug 2010
To begin with, the fact that one is practicing the prior art doesn’t prove they’re not also doing something that infringes. For example, if I design and build a
car that uses a gasoline engine and has LED headlights, I’m practicing the prior-art inventions of Daimler and Benz for a gas-powered automobile. If a patent holder [...]
24 Aug 2010
In addition to asking for credit card information, the phony iTunes page also asks for one’s social security number and mother’s maiden name.
“We’ve never seen Apple as the target,” Proofpoint’s Andrew Lochart told Computerworld on Tuesday. “It’s probably indicative that the bad guys see Apple’s online presence as large enough to be a target.”
In [...]
24 Aug 2010
All this absurdism, tongue firmly in cheek, comes by way of asking: What are these folks really trying to accomplish here? Could it be that the tech-heads in both militaries just want a new toy to play with? Your guess is as good as mine.
When most people think of military hotlines, it is safe to [...]
24 Aug 2010
If you don’t have antivirus protection, get some. See CNET’s latest antivirus performance test results here. If you already have an antivirus product installed, make sure your subscription and the data files are both up to date.
“Generally speaking, when you only have something like 25 percent or less who are updated with the current patches [...]
24 Aug 2010
*All stats reported here are from Advanced Web Statistics version 6.6 (build 1.887).
**Not all users of the website are running Windows, of course, but the stats shown here are just for Windows users. Comparing the popularity of Windows vs. Macs is another topic. Unfortunately, AWStats does not break down visits or page views by [...]