Best Day Saturday. The Black Lips, Matt & Kim, Bowerbirds, Beirut, Yeasayer...it's like an illegal file-sharing server come to life!
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Best Day Saturday. The Black Lips, Matt & Kim, Bowerbirds, Beirut, Yeasayer...it's like an illegal file-sharing server come to life!
Is Spam Here to Stay? - (Information Today, News Bank) - 0 views
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This article gives a little background information of spam in 2006, and 2008. It talks about the costs, ussage and cases. Spam acounts for nearly 200 billion messages each day, which translates to about 90% of email worldwide. The U.S. is the biggest source at 17.2%.
Dialogues with Colorful Personalities of Early AI - 1 views
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Of all the legacies of the era of the sixties, three colorful, not to say garrulous, "personalities" that emerged from the early days of artificial intelligence research are worth mentioning: ELIZA, the Rogerian psychotherapist; PARRY, the paranoid; and (as part of a younger generation) RACTER, the "artificially insane" raconteur.
Understanding Computers and the Internet | Harvard Video Course - 0 views
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This course is all about understanding: understanding what's going on inside your computer when you flip on the switch, why tech support has you constantly rebooting your computer, how everything you do on the Internet can be watched by others, and how your computer can become infected with a worm just by turning it on. In this course we demystify computers and the Internet, along with their jargon, so that students understand not only what they can do with each but also how it all works and why. Students leave this course armed with a new vocabulary and equipped for further exploration of computers and the Internet. Topics include hardware, software, the Internet, multimedia, security, website development, programming, and dotcoms. This course is designed both for those with little, if any, computer experience and for those who use a computer every day.
Google Pulls Some Street Images (BBC Technology) - 0 views
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This article explains how certain street images have been pulled from Google because they respond to people asking for pictures to be removed. A solution mentioned is that they could take multiple sets of pictures on the day that they are taking them to ensure that they don't choose the offensive ones.
Instant Fix Slow Computer Solutions - 1 views
I bought a brand new PC with good specifications just last month. But only three weeks of use, I noticed that my PC froze and slowed down a bit. For the next three days, it continued to slow down. ...
New Sunglasses Let You See Another's Emotions...Really - Forbes - 0 views
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Image courtesy of 2AI Labs One day soon, you may be standing next to someone wearing sunglasses at a bus stop and notice that they are staring at you, really staring. Look closely at the glasses and you might find a logo with the name "O2Amp", and if you do, you'll [...]
Short Film of the Day: Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus | Film School Rejects - Stu... - 0 views
Slashdot IT Story | Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD - 0 views
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The discs have been showing up at credit unions around the country recently, a throwback to the days when viruses and Trojans were distributed via floppy disk.
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the infected CDs
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rather than an actual attack.
Privacy for palm consumers - 0 views
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The discovery was made by software developer and Pre owner Joey Hess, who found that his phone was reporting his location over a secure connection back to Palm. It also sent back information about application crashes - even those not seen by a Pre owner.
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It added: "Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience."
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The company issued a statement after one owner discovered his phone was sending data every day back to Palm.
Research shows that gamers are less healthy in many ways than non gamers - 1 views
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A team from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found gamers were less healthy, fatter, and more depressed than non-gamers.
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This is where it shows that games impacts health of many people.
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areas of impact- health
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"Health risk factors, specifically a higher BMI and a larger number of poor mental-health days, differentiated adult video-game players from non gamers," he said.
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The specific issues of health that is impacted.
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Female video-game players reported greater depression and lower health status than female non-players, while male gamers reported a higher BMI and a greater reliance on the internet than non-gamers.
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Talking about the different people that are shown as examples.
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Burma hit by massive net attack ahead of election - 2 views
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An ongoing computer attack has knocked Burma off the internet, just days ahead of its first election in 20 years. This can have political impacts!
System Administrator Appreciation Day - 2 views
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What does a sysadmin do? Well, let a sysadmin explain...
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