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Importantance of Podcasting Outside of Technology
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
I mentioned that I am beginning to produce a podcast totally outside of the topic of technology and business.
Please visit the Rotary Polio Podcast for some insight into one of the most incredible private humanitarian efforts, and the private stories of those who have participated in the world wide eradication of polio.
I’ll not abuse your interests, other than to mention every week or two as new material is posted.
Listener comments on Stories this Week:
Mark H speaks of some far away past events that might not be so far away:
Daniel R comments on a different story – the evolutionary split in the human race in the far away future:
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Wishful thinking or political posturing ?
1994, radar echoes orbiter called Clementine appeared to show lake frozen water lay near the lunar South Pole
Radar signature called the circular polarisation ratio – Clementine thought = thick deposits of ice – could also be created by echoes from the rough terrain and walls of impact craters.
Radar signal from the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico. The signal hit the southern lunar region and the reflection was picked up by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
Pirates: Usenet is Safe Harbor
MPAA goes after Bittorrent
Two terabytes of binary data is added everyday to Usenet, according to a recent report:
Guba does with that material:
Crawls Usenet for multimedia content, indexing over 300,000 files a day
recently partnered with major movie studios to sell downloadable films, and offer some free user-submitted content
GUBA
GUBA protects content owners using the latest DRM solutions and a proprietary, MPAA-approved filtering technology named ‘Johnny.’”
MPAA ignoring the fact that GUBA provides access to these pirated and illegal files, they are undermining the very position they have taken in suits and actions against P2P and Torrent-indexing sites.
Benjamin’s rule: Benjamen’s Rule.
Windows Genuine Advantage—could become a problem if the layer itself is ever targeted by a virus or Trojan horse.
Aside from having the potential ability to turn your operating system off so that it cannot work at all, it is the program that allows your OS to be upgraded.
There will be no patches for an exploit against the program that turns off upgrades.
Vista turning itself off in enterprise situations such as airline reservations or a hospital full of patients on life support.
not perfect. Yet. But it’s a start, and it did a pretty good job of hiding a copper cylinder.
microwaves bounce off objects making them visible and creating a shadow,
Cloaking differs from stealth technology, which doesn’t make an aircraft invisible but reduces the cross-section available to radar, making it hard to track.
Cloaking simply passes the radar or other waves around the object as if it weren’t there, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.
Dell Should Make Apple Hardware
Apple hardware: Gartner
Apple’s best bet for long-term success is to quit the hardware business and license the Mac to Dell, analyst firm Gartner
leverage its close relationship with Intel and team up with Intel’s closest ally, Dell,
Apple’s sales, while still smaller than its major competitors, grew by double digits in the second quarter of this year. IDC attributed the growth to a successful transition to Intel chips.
Wisdom of Crowds ? Maybe Experts are better
Don’t bet on it
PicksPal identify a handful of experts.
“wisdom of crowds,” the notion that the tremendous masses drawn to the Web can together provide collective knowledge that outperforms even that of experts
group wisdom,
Link-analysis formula Google Inc. uses to rank search results.
Marketocracy.com
wisdom of the few is Marketocracy, a site that has been recruiting Internet users to manage model stock portfolios and evaluating their performance for more than three years.
Marketocracy tries to identify the top stock investors out of 55,000 users who manage portfolios by evaluating both their long- and short-term performance.
SocialPicks.com
SocialPicks.com seeks to fare even better by combining stock picking with social networking.
Elite stock trader, high rates of return and accuracy,
Post analyses that others deem to be exceptionally insightful,
Stanford University School of Medicine in California, US, indicates that more than one in eight US residents show signs of “problematic internet use”.
using the internet to self-medicate,”
14% of respondents said they found it difficult to stay away from the internet for several days 12% Approximately 6% also said their personal relationships had suffered as a result of excessive internet usage.
Zombies Blend in – Tales of the Undead
Cybercrooks are moving to new Web-based techniques “zombies.”
Malicious remote-control code turns a computer into a zombie via security holes in software, a worm, or a Trojan horse.
It then runs silently in the background, letting an attacker send commands to the system, unbeknownst to its owner.
IRC control is old school
Harder to identify zombies on a network, and harder for security professionals to use the hackers’ own tools to spy on them.
Bad Guys
Criminals make money by networking their zombies into a “botnet”. They put these networks to work mounting denial-of-service attacks against online businesses in extortion schemes; hosting faked Web sites used in phishing scams; and relaying spam.
IRC Advantages
IRC lets hackers control their bots in real time. As soon as a computer is infected, it connects to a specific chat server and channel, and awaits its commands.
Good guys is that they can lurk in the chat rooms, spy on the hackers,since IRC uses its own distinctive network protocol. a certain signature.
Resolution
Internet service providers already block traffic to the IRC servers used by zombies, and many organizations use network shields, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems, to block IRC traffic altogether. This prevents a compromised PC on a specific network from contacting its command-and-control center.
zombie fighters lose an important capability to identify and spy on botmasters.
anti-immigration site VDARE is publicizing the fact that it has been blocked as a ‘hate site’ by several Internet blocking programs
VDARE says they decided that showing legal muscle was a good way to get unblocked,
VDARE is not “white nationalist”, but adds, “We also publish on VDARE.COM a few writers
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