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Human mind evolved for many millions years keeping the sense of risk that advice ed us stay alive running from predators and hiding from computer threats. On one side, this million-year experience makes our sense of risk a pretty good one, since it assistance ed us to survive during many millions years of evolution, but on the other side, the term risk sounds a little bit exaggerated especially when quoted by Net security expert engineer s of today.
This post is in reference to Bob’s post on Internet Video and TV. It started out as a comment, but quickly became too big for that. So here is my $.02. The problem isn’t technological at its heart, it is the content producers and distributors that are at fault, and here’s why.
Nielsen, the company known for telling us which TV shows are popular, has a new technology that uses sounds from videos uploaded online and matches them with its database that already has 95% of TV shows indexed. Nielsen is rolling out the service as early as today and is [...]
div>Sophos, an internet-security company, released numbers on the amount of spam sent per country between this past July and September. And the United States is responsible for about 30% of it (see chart below). Despite legislation such as the CAN-SPAM Act, the U.S. hasn’t been able to do much to [...]
div>Purdue University announced this morning that they received 47 new settlement letters from the Recording Industry Mafia Association of America.
Purdue spokesperson Jeanne Norberg said: “As an Internet service provider, Purdue will forward these letters when the user can be accurately identified.” “Purdue will not voluntarily provide names to the RIAA. However, should those [...]
div>On Monday, the FCC announced the final digital television (DTV) channel assignments in anticipation of the scheduled switch from analog broadcast. Because we haven’t covered this topic yet at TechConsumer.com, it seems like a good time to run through the process for those who may be affected.
Just what is DTV and why the [...]
div>Actually I’d prefer less. Those who have read this blog for any period of time probably know two things about me.
1) I write books. Those books are published by a publisher and are sold in a store near you. (Or at least on Amazon).
2) I don’t like copyright laws. Maybe “don’t like” isn’t [...]
There has been quite a lot of press lately about Google’s new Street View service. Street View allows you to pick a street and see it how it really is. This isn’t a satellite image, but rather pictures taken right on the street. So for example, here is a picture of the Bellagio [...]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a valid point in explaining the under-anticipated downside of going paperless. Once you’re gone, your family may not know where to begin to look for your accounts, assets, insurance policies, retirement plans, etc. So you should write all that information down and keep it in a [...]
Trent Reznor gave an interesting interview over at the Herald Sun. In it he states, “It’s a very odd time to be a musician on a major label, because there’s so much resentment towards the record industry that it’s hard to position yourself in a place with the fans where you don’t look [...]
