The list is from May 2006, and is definitely worth a look. If you use AOL (Please stop), you really must look at this list.
25 Worst Tech Products of All Time (PC World)
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Google’s Growing Brain
15-Oct-06Wired’s recent article – The Information Factories – is a must read. The article discusses the new data centers that are being built by Google and the other major search engines. The scale of these data centers is not as big as the idea behind them, however. An incredibly scalable parallel server [...]
Not long ago, AOL released the search information of hundreds of thousands of customers. Think for a minute about the types of things that you search for. Do you want people to know what you search for? Most people do not for obvious reasons. You cannot control how a search engine [...]
Taking passwords to the grave
11-Oct-06What happens when someone dies and nobody knows their passwords? This is increasingly becoming a problem, especially when important things like bank accounts, investments, and email are locked behind passwords.
CNET News has a great article on this here.
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Humorous Mark Foley Videos
04-Oct-06From Invisible Engine Films:
OMG Mark Foley – Reenactment of a real instant message conversation.
Foley Exposed – A recap of the Mark Foley saga.
Mark Foley has learned the hard way that what you type in an email or instant message is not anywhere near private. This should be a lesson to all to pay attention to what you say in an email or instant message. (And to not make sexual advances to minors, of course!)
Not only [...]
Facebook Open to Everyone Starting Today
26-Sep-06Starting today, Facebook is no longer restricted to students, businesses, and whoever else. They are opening their doors to everyone…
This comes shortly after a story about Yahoo wanting to buy Facebook for 1 billion dollars.
Lessons from the Facebook Riots – Wired / Bruce Schneier
Facebook Expands Amid Rumors of Buyout – NPR
Talking Surveillance Cameras
21-Sep-06Britain has recently installed a handful of surveilance cameras with loudspeakers attached. Whoever is behind the cameras can speak to the people they are watching. The idea is that the people monitoring the cameras will be able to give verbal warnings to people who are fighting, littering, peeing on the street, etc…
I cannot help but [...]
Pretexting
19-Sep-06Wired News did a great article on pretexting a few days ago. Pretexting usually involves pretending to be someone else to obtain information. It is also referred to as social engineering.
Kevin Mitnick, the most famous computer hacker in the world, was one of the authors of The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human [...]
Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN)
10-Sep-06Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a tool for completely erasing a computer hard drive. Wiping a hard drive is very important if you are selling a computer, because deleting things does not make them disappear. Wiping a drive is also the last option when the drive is infected with viruses or spyware.
I just used [...]
