Aside from having some idea what you’re going to do with a website, perhaps the single most important thing is deciding where you’re going to host the site. Any serious business or blog is going to need to be on a domain that isn’t just a sub domain of free hosting service.
No, this isn’t going to be a Bob Hope tribute. I was just struck recently by the state of technology now compared to when I was a kid. You see, we recently got a digital camcorder and along with it we got a 4 gigabyte SDHC memory card.
Catching up on Slashdot again I ran across something that’s a tad bothersome. Seems that Micro$loth is calling IE8’s habit of phoning home ‘Innocuous’.
One of the things that’s bugged me for a long time is the fact that Windows operating systems have this thing to them about autoplaying any CD-ROM that’s inserted.
Word is out on Slashdot that the US Department of Justice has hired Sanford Litvack, formerly of Disney to get out his legal swimwear and get ready for a possible anti-trust suit against Google.
Do you trust electronic voting machines? If so, there is some good reason why you should reconsider. The Security Group at the University of California in Santa Barbara has released video that demonstrates a very probable method of tampering with these things.
A tech company called Verayo has announced a new flavor of RFID chip, one that they say cannot be cloned. It uses a Challenge / Response technology called “Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF)”.
Concerned about “Identity theft”? Maybe you should be if you’ve got one of those new credit cards that has an RFID chip in it. If so, here’s a video you should watch.
I have always preferred the old-fashioned brick and mortar kind of shopping when it comes to buying things like computers, phones and so on, you know, the usual assortment of home and personal or business electronics that we’ve all come to depend on so much.
How long does spam take to decay into nothing?
