Avoiding malware on twitter and other social networks
Thanks to the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it’s a given that malicious hackers will devise ways to exploit the sites’ numerous users in order to infect their computers with malware. This unwanted software is designed to do a number of terrible things ranging from identity theft to turning computer into [...]
How I was saved from iSmug, or How Apple Pissed Me Off
The ongoing saga where I have to replace my aging laptop… Chapter 3 – My brush with hipsters
So…I almost drank the Apple Koolaid, and bought one of the new top end iMacs…with the Radeon 4850. But lo, I was saved from going to the smug side. (Or in Apple Terminology: iSmug.)
I called the apple store [...]
TED Archives
The Technology, Entertainment, Design conference brings some of the most interesting people. For those of us that can’t make the conference, we can watch the videos from past conferences.
You bought it, but you don’t own it
This just in from the EFF:
In a devastating blow to user rights, an Arizona federal court has ruled that consumers can be guilty of copyright infringement if they violate the end user license agreement (”EULA”) that comes with the software–even where the so-called “violation” is specifically excluded from copyright liability. Why? Because [...]
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