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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 ...
Microsoft released version 8 of their web browser today: Internet Explorer 8: Home page. I haven’t installed it yet, so this may not be entirely fair, but based on past experience developing web software for Internet Explorer I admit to feeling a sense of dread.
Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Internet, Technology
Here’s a handy list of Safari 4 Hidden Preferences. To change these preferences, you use the Mac OS X Terminal application, located in: Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal If you’ve never used the Terminal before, here’s an introduction.
After a couple of days of using the public beta of Safari 4, there are three main points of contention interrupting my workflow. 1) I post to LGF primarily by using a Javascript bookmarklet (a bit of Javascript code that works as a bookmark) that pops up a new window ...
There’s a treat at the Apple website: Apple Releases Beta of Safari 4. Here’s a direct link to the download page. First geeked-out impressions: the Javascript engine is screaming fast. Pages with a lot of Javascript are much quicker. LGF seems to work just dandy, and I haven’t encountered any ...
What’s this I hear about people ripping off Iowahawk’s goods? The Pelosi GTxi SS/RT, Take 2. Maybe they need to have a discussion with the business end of Stinky Beaumont’s wrench.
The struggle over YouTube’s slice of the internet pie is getting mean: Warner Music pulls videos from YouTube. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Warner Music Group ordered YouTube on Saturday to remove all music videos by its artists from the popular online video-sharing site after contract negotiations broke down. The ...
Internet Explorer has a really really big security hole, and Chinese hackers are exploiting it like crazy: Microsoft issuing emergency fix for browser flaw. Update ASAP so we don’t have to block your IP address when your PC goes zombie.
Internet, Technology, Security, Hackers, China, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
The website of Al Qaeda’s Somalian affiliate, al-Shabaab, is being hosted by the US-based company Dotster; Rusty has details: Terrorists: Yes, Our Official Website Is Hosted in the U.S., So What?
Here’s a scary little story about the increasing sophistication of online criminals: Hands-off hackers: Crooks opt for surgical strikes. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Internet criminals have been getting more “professional” for years, trying to run their businesses like Big Business to get better and more profitable at selling stolen ...
We don’t know what the McCain campaign’s excuse is, but way back in June we pointed out that the Obama campaign’s web administrators were making ridiculous, amateurish security mistakes: Highlights: Newsweek’s Special Election Project. The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated ...
We posted this last month, but the problem is getting worse. We just checked our automated flood protection log, and 5 IPs have been blocked today because of the following problem. If your IP is blocked for this reason, we can’t spend any more of our time to find and ...
The mainstream media can’t seem to find any cases in which Obama supporters are behaving badly (for example, all this was completely ignored by media), but some idiots on the right are making it into the news regularly. Man At Palin Rally Displays Monkey Doll Donning Obama Sticker. McCain Camp ...