Archive for the 'Internet' Category
Posted in Internet, Technology | Monday, August 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
The Denver Post
By Kimberly S. Johnson
There are an increasing number of software tools available to keep personal online activities safe from hackers and spyware programs.
But even if a user has firewalls, up-to-date anti-virus and anti-spyware programs installed on a PC, there are other ways for your personal information to make it into the wrong hands.
“Applications leave traces of information behind. That information can be telling of certain things,” said Mike Irwin, chief operating officer for Webroot Software Inc. in Boulder. “For people that know where to look, it provides a distinct visibility into specific aspects of computer usage by the user.”
Posted in Sex, Politics, Internet, Technology | Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
Yahoo 7 News
AAP
A 16-year-old schoolboy has cracked the federal government’s $84-million internet porn filter.
Tom Wood, a Year 10 student, told News Ltd newspapers it took him about 30 minutes to break through the government’s new filter, released on Tuesday.
Tom, who attends a Melbourne private school, can deactivate the filter after several clicks.
His method ensures the software’s toolbar icon is not deleted.
He can leave his parents believing the filter is still working.
Posted in Crime, Internet | Saturday, August 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
By Steven Kreytak and Miguel Liscano
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Tariq Majeed gets rare prison term for illegal gambling promotion
The head of an Austin illegal gambling empire was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit close to $6 million in ill-gotten cash and real estate to the government.
Lawyers in the case said that the punishment of Tariq Majeed, 44, is among the most significant in recent years in Texas law enforcement’s fight against video gambling machines, many of them known as 8-liners, which are legal to own but not when winnings are paid in cash.
Posted in International, Crime, Internet | Friday, August 24th, 2007 | No Comments »
Daily Mail (UK)
By Jaya Narain
Masked, a revolver clutched in a gloved hand and pointed straight at the camera, this is how the rival gang members portray themselves on the internet.
Other chilling shots - available to anyone who logs on to the website YouTube - show how they terrorise the neighbourhood on quad-bikes, ride wheelies on motorbikes and perform handbrake turns on busy roads in their high-performance cars.
The Croxteth Crew and the Strand Crew of Norris Green both have a hard core of 15 members aged between 13 and their mid-20s but can call on reinforcements when required.
Posted in Business, Art, Sex, Internet | Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
New York Daily News
Barbie’s not that kind of girl.
The makers of the all-American doll sued chinabarbie.com yesterday, accusing the Hollywood, Fla., company of trying to peddle soft porn across the Internet by invoking Barbie’s good name.
Chinabarbie.com sells memberships to customers eager to view Asian women posing in various stages of undress.
Posted in Automotive, Sports, Internet | Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »
WCVB TV/DT
2005 Mercedes Up For Bid
BOSTON — Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is offering Sox fans a piece of team history: the 2005 Mercedes he bought as a gift to himself to celebrate the Red Sox World Series win in 2004.
Big Papi has put the car up for sale on eBay and is offering to deliver the car himself to the winner at Fenway Park.
The car is a 2005 Mercedes-Benz, SL-Class, SL65 AMG.
Posted in International, Business, Internet | Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
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The Union-Tribune
By Lisa Cornwell
Associated Press
CINCINNATI – Toys and other children’s products recalled because of safety concerns are often resold through online auction sites, putting children at risk, according to a recent study.
EBay Inc.’s Web site prohibits the sale of recalled products, but enforcement efforts don’t seem to be succeeding, said Keri Brown Kirschman, the study’s lead author and an assistant psychology professor at the University of Dayton.
Posted in Crime, Internet, Technology | Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
Yahoo News
InfoWorld
By Robert McMillan
San Francisco (IDGNS) - Internet service providers in the U.S. experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire.
TeliaSonera AB, which lost the northern leg of its U.S. network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot. “Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable,” said Anders Olausson, a TeliaSonera spokesman.
Posted in Entertainment, Internet | Saturday, August 18th, 2007 | No Comments »
Daily Tech
Wolfgang Hansson Blog
A study has concluded that casual gaming is the most popular online entertainment activity, with streaming video and social networking following behind
There are all sorts of things you can do online and if you have ever wondered what most people do online for entertainment, you are not alone. From reading sites like DailyTech, to watching videos on sites like YouTube or visiting social networking sites like FaceBook, what entertainment activity is most popular online? You might be surprised by the answer.
A study has concluded that the most popular online activity for entertainment is playing casual games. The study doesn’t mention some things people do online for entertainment, like searching for images of Britney Spears’ latest outing whilst going commando, which is sure to absorb significant time online.
Posted in Politics, Internet, Technology | Friday, August 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
Wired
By Noah Shachtman
For years, the military has been warning that soldiers’ blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites post material that’s far more potentially harmful than blogs do.
The audits, performed by the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell between January 2006 and January 2007, found at least 1,813 violations of operational security policy on 878 official military websites. In contrast, the 10-man, Manassas, Virginia, unit discovered 28 breaches, at most, on 594 individual blogs during the same period.
The results were obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, after the digital rights group filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.
Posted in Entertainment, TV, Internet | Friday, August 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
The Mercury News
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Short Internet videos from the creator of the animated TV show “Family Guy” and Raven-Symone, star of the Disney Channel show “That’s So Raven,” will be distributed over Google Inc.’s AdSense network, it was announced Thursday.
Media Rights Capital, the financing company that backed last year’s film “Babel,” is supporting the two projects. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The programs will appear in a video box that a user would click on to start. The box will be packaged with banner advertising and video ads that will appear either before or after the programming.
Posted in Politics, Internet, Technology | Friday, August 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
Newsvine.com
By Claus Jacobsen
Facts are not what they used to be. It is supposed to be the largest open source encyclopaedia, free for all to use and edit for the general enlightenment of people all over the world, but Wikipedia is very easily abused by groups and organizations that want to control freedom of information.
The Wikipedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that runs Wikipedia, uses Wikipedia Scanner, a piece of software that allows the people behind the open source project to tie millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.
