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As mainstream news organizations increasingly find it difficult to turn a profit in the Internet Age, Pew Research has been studying the attitudes of news consumers toward some of the proposed solutions; and the prospects are pretty grim for news organizations to convince consumers to pay for something that they ...
Here’s a very interesting piece at Ars Technica, on a subject that has a direct effect on LGF: Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love. Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did ...
Reports of the death of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (aka Satan’s Browser) may have been greatly exaggerated. Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser—a decade-old dinosaur engineered to navigate the ...
Internet, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, IE6, Browsers, Demonic Possession, Heinous
Anyone with an email account connected to the Internet has received them — seemingly endless variations on weirdly phrased emails pretending to be from semi-famous people, offering millions of dollars if you’ll help do something that seems slightly shady. They often originate in Nigeria, and they’re a plague upon the ...
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Onion, Satire, Humor, Comedy, Video, Internet, Security, Worms
Security guy Bruce Schneier has a cautionary piece at CNN on the rush by many democratic governments around the world to grant new surveillance powers to police forces, often requiring large web services such as Gmail to have “back door” access systems — back doors that are being exploited by ...
The New York Times may be about to start charging people for online access to their articles, using a system in which readers can sample a few free articles before being required to subscribe. Apparently, they’re hoping that their bad experience with Times Select, the previous attempt to put some ...
Because I’ve lived this nightmare too many times: How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell.
According to numerous Twitter reports, the Iranian regime has blocked all Internet access today and only government sites remain connected to the web. IranNewsNow has a list of the activist leaders who were arrested yesterday: What will the regime do now? Arrest people.
Here’s a very cool new service from Google, that can significantly speed up web browsing: Google Public DNS. I followed the instructions on this page for setting up Google Public DNS on my Mac; it worked without a hitch, and it definitely does improve the speed of page loads across ...
Google announced today that they would not remove a racist image of Michelle Obama from their image search page, where it was showing up as the first result: Google won’t exclude distorted Michelle Obama image from its site. But the blog that posted the image has now removed it themselves: ...
Here’s an interesting contrast between the GOP, which spent $1.4 million on a buggy, incomplete website redesign, and the Democratic White House, where they just launched a redesign of the site using the open source Content Management System (CMS), Drupal. (And it looks great.) Publisher Tim O’Reilly has a good ...
Here’s one of the most short-sighted and self-destructive things I’ve ever seen the Associated Press do — they’re going to try to prevent search engines and blogs from even linking to their articles, unless they pay for the privilege. Unbelievable. Rather than embrace the openness of the web and the ...
Since July 4th, major websites in the US and South Korea have been under attack by “a hostile group or government.” SEOUL, South Korea — Cyberattacks that have crippled the Web sites of several major American and South Korean government agencies since the July 4th holiday weekend appear to ...
North Korea, Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Kim Jong-Il, Security, Internet
The Internet makes people crazy. We all know this.
Firefox 3.5, a major update, has been released into the wild.
Striking high resolution images from Iran, at Boston.com’s Big Picture: Iran’s Disputed Election.
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Election, rioting, Technology, Internet, Gadgets, Photography
The amazing thing about all the footage we’re seeing from Iran is that, in nearly every photo and every video clip, you can see people recording the scene with digital cameras and cell phones and camcorders. And then a lot of those people connect to the Internet and use web ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Ahmadinejad, Election, rioting, Technology, Internet, Gadgets
Every once in a while, a random deranged idiot gets on the Internet and impersonates me, registering accounts in my name, and posting ugly and/or crazy comments at other blogs and websites. Several people have emailed to let me know that someone’s been doing this yesterday and today; one place ...
Here’s an eye-opening article by computer security expert Bruce Schneier on the lessons learned from a database of stolen passwords: Real-World Passwords. How good are the passwords people are choosing to protect their computers and online accounts? It’s a hard question to answer because data is scarce. But recently, ...
Security, Computers, Passwords, Internet, Social Engineering, Schneier
Well, the big computer security mystery of the year turned out to be just another spammers’ tool: Conficker Doomsday Worm Sells Out For $49.95. Last night the dreaded Conficker worm finally got the update we’ve been waiting for since April 1. But cyber Armageddon will have to wait another ...
Chinese robots. The Internet is lousy with them. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. concerns about the potential for cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure extended to the American electrical power grid on Wednesday and experts pointed the finger anew at Chinese hackers, among others. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters ...
If you’re using a Windows PC, it would be a very good idea to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date, because the “Conficker” worm is preparing to do ... something ... on April 1st. This article is skeptical about the danger, but since no one really knows ...