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Importance 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.
Video Being Dugg – published at SDR a month ago
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Cryptic note on Digg
“but at this point it looks like it’s on life support and the heart monitor is flatlining.â€
Great loss to podcasting if that’s true.
TechTV legacy – but when you are moving in the business and finance circles – unintended consequences
getfirefox.com
anti-phishing technology to prevent the deceptive disclosure of personal information.
system crash restore for windows, tabs, in-progress downloads and text typed into online forms if any of those are interrupted by a
Corrects the spelling of words entered on Web pages.
9.8 percent vs Techie over 70%
Digital audio technology to “neutralize” the sound of speech and other distractions
an stay focused in any environment.
MP3 audio format relies upon acoustic masking to increase its compression efficiency.
ChatterBlocker does not use noise-cancellation.
soothing blend of nature sounds, music and “anti-chatter†voices.
Canada Space Elevator
Canadian competitors is rising to the challenge in a NASA-funded contest
competitors are gearing up for the Spaceward Foundation’s Space Elevator Challenge,
University of Saskatchewan Space Team (USST), said he and his Saskatoon-based team of 20 to 30 undergraduate engineering students have been working for about 10 months on a solar-cell skinned elevator prototype.
Canada Part 2
Power Beam Challenge: one metre per second up a ribbon suspended nearly 61 metres (200 feet) from a crane. The climber must be powered by a light source.
Tether Strength challenge: develop a material that would be light and strong enough to support the 100,000-kilometre tether that would lift a full-scale elevator into space.
The space agency has funded prizes purses of $200,000 US this year, which will rise every year until 2010′s purse of $600,000.
German License
5.5 Eu / month license fee for phone with internet capability
Germany’s 16 states agreed on Thursday to introduce from January 1 a licence fee of 5.52 euros (3.70 pounds) a month
German households
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pay just over 17 euros a month to watch TV,
Switzerland and the Nordic countries paying more.
Microsoft Invincible
Roughlydrafted.com
myth, Microsoft’s expertise in building software platforms ensures that everything that Microsoft does will turn to gold.
Microsoft will eventually dominate all new markets, from online music stores to the iPod, and how advances by Linux and Apple’s Mac OS X will never make any significant impact on PC desktops.
DELL and HP
Not MS but manufacturers
PC makers rely on Microsoft to supply them with software, and Microsoft relies on PC makers to sell it for them.
If Microsoft lost its invincibility, the PC platform would be torn in different directions, and face competition from alternative platforms.
Microsoft signed exclusive OEM licensing contracts with them to effectively deny anyone else the ability to bundle their OS with new hardware sales.
Part 2
Windows appeared to be cheaper – because the price was hidden within cheaper hardware.
Manufacturers that bought copies of Windows, such as Dell, HP, and IBM, simply passed the cost on to consumers in a way that made Windows to appear to be free.
Sales of Windows PCs are growing annually at 10-15%, but Mac sales have been outpacing industry growth at nearly 40%, and expectations call for even faster growth in the future.
Apple’s growth comes out of the most profitable PC sector: home and professional users willing to pay for premium machines.
Increasingly unattractive market; competing fiercely below $500, it becomes increasingly difficult to hide a substantial Windows license fee in the mix.
Japanese Videos Start
YouTube Removed 30,000 Japanese Videos from Site
Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC). unauthorized materials taken from Japanese sources, including movies, music videos, and television.
Japanese broadcast giant NHK was among those seeking the removal of materials.
Viacom will be the second domino to fall
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating
Simple as that
The patch shows a film reel, a music CD and the international copyright symbol, a “C” enclosed in a circle.
being introduced to the 52,000 Scouts in the Los Angeles area, with plans to offer it to other California councils early next year. The program will reach Scouts ages 6 to 21.
Judge Rules In Favor Of Spamhaus
Founder Steve Linford predicted disastrous results, claiming that his blacklist is responsible for stopping over 50 billion spam messages per day.
e360insight was granted an $11.7 million default judgment in the case after Spamhaus decided not to fight the lawsuit.
a devastating loss of personal freedom for all U.S. Citizens’
millions of unsolicited emails that e360 Insight pumps out every single day
Opening Diebold Source, the Hard Way
Tossed over the transom in plain wrapper – source code to voting machines that ran Maryland’s polls in 2004..
Cheryl C. Kagan, a longtime critic of Maryland’s elections chief, says the fact that the computer disks were sent to her – along with an unsigned note criticizing the management of the state elections board – demonstrates that Maryland’s voting system faces grave security threats.
Diebold Election Systems Inc. expressed alarm and state election officials contacted the FBI
Trojan Installs Anti-Virus, Removes Other Malware
The Trojan has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner
keep all the system resources for themselves—if they have to compete with, say, a mass-mailer virus, it really puts a damper on how much spam they can send,
Malicious hackers battling for control over an infected system have also removed competing malware by killing processes, removing registry keys, or setting up mutexes that fool the other malware into thinking it is already running
SPAM THRU
SpamThru takes the game to a new level, actually using an anti-virus engine against potential rivals.
Stewart found that SpamThru was being used to operate a spam-based pump-and-dump stock scheme.
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