Comment Re:How mature. (Score 1) 572
I'm with you. If they don't like it, then switch service providers. I'm also a Verizon customer and never had a prob with them. Best coverage no matter where I travel.
Submission + - UK Government seeks new web censorship powers (francisdavey.co.uk)
oldandcold writes: Given the recent coverage and controversy over Australia's forthcoming web censorship system, it is somewhat surprising (and worrying) that Clause 11 of the UK's proposed Digital Economy Bill seems to have gone by largely unnoticed. It amends the Communications Act 2003 to insert a new section 124H that could give the Secretary of State powers to order ISPs to block pretty much any website for pretty much any reason. Such orders would not require the scrutiny of parliament, or anyone else for that matter because the Secretary of State would not be required to publish them.
The inherent dangers in this clause are self-evident. Let's hope someone in power takes notice soon.
The inherent dangers in this clause are self-evident. Let's hope someone in power takes notice soon.
Comment Re:Way to go States (Score 1) 1079
It depends on where you're flying to--don't paint the US border with such a wide brush. I've noticed that every airport is different and some places are a bit friendlier to fly into than others.
Comment Re:Boarder Security (Score 1) 1079
As an MA resident you SHOULD be worried about us. Most MA resident drive like absolute MANIACS!! Lock up your children and stay off the roads...sidewalks, too...
Submission + - Chrome for Linux: Good Browsers Come to Those Who (linuxinsider.com)
tugfoigel writes: Google finally released a beta version of its Chrome Web browser for Linux on Dec. 8, slightly more than one year after releasing its Chrome browser for Microsoft Windows. The wait was worth it, especially given the more than 300 extensions already available to customize the new browser. Because Linux distributions are numerous, Google ported the Chrome code to a select handful of the most popular distros.
Submission + - SPAM: Google Doodles compromised
IP-192.com writes: Online scammers are taking advantage of users interested in the Google Doodle, Google’s special logo collection, to spread malware, using a technique called “SEO poisoning.” They create special malware-rigged Web sites or hide malware on legitimate Web sites they’ve compromised and then use tags associated with popular search terms to get them listed high up in search engine results.
A Google doodle on Tuesday showed a flag for Esperanto, a universal language created by L.L. Zamenhof, CNet reports. Clicking on the doodle generated an awful lot of malicious search results for “L.L. Zamenhof.”
Dave Michmerhuizen, a research scientist at Barracuda Networks, found 31 poisoned sites among the first 100 results, 27 of them in the first 50 sites alone. On the first results page was a link leading to a compromised Web site that redirects visitors to a fake antivirus site, according to Michmerhuizen. That site displays a fake alert saying the computer might be infected and does a fake scan before prompting the user to pay for antivirus software, he said.
“I see this all the time,” he said. “Poisoning a trend is nothing new, but in this particular case, it’s a search where you actually click on Google’s logo and you get results back from sites where half of the links have been compromised.”
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A Google doodle on Tuesday showed a flag for Esperanto, a universal language created by L.L. Zamenhof, CNet reports. Clicking on the doodle generated an awful lot of malicious search results for “L.L. Zamenhof.”
Dave Michmerhuizen, a research scientist at Barracuda Networks, found 31 poisoned sites among the first 100 results, 27 of them in the first 50 sites alone. On the first results page was a link leading to a compromised Web site that redirects visitors to a fake antivirus site, according to Michmerhuizen. That site displays a fake alert saying the computer might be infected and does a fake scan before prompting the user to pay for antivirus software, he said.
“I see this all the time,” he said. “Poisoning a trend is nothing new, but in this particular case, it’s a search where you actually click on Google’s logo and you get results back from sites where half of the links have been compromised.”
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Comment Re:Backup! (Score 1) 929
Oh believe me, I think she was incredibly naive and foolish to do what she did. There was no excusing it whatsoever.
Submission + - Internet filtering/censorship in Italy
Blurp123456789 writes: Right after the aggression to the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has announced forthcoming new laws to limit public demonstrations and to introduce internet filtering. Content of such laws will be revealed in the next few days. Meanwhile looks like every image of the wounded Prime Minister and his aggressor have mysteriously disappeared from Google and other search engines. Google images search for Berlusconi aggression or Massimo Tartaglia return zero relevant images. Many people are reporting that images were showing up until yesterday. Google Italy denies this in thier official blog, but their explanations doesn't seem trustworthy. [Google Italia Blog, english translation] Does this happen outside of Italy too? Is this country heading toward a China-like censorship?
Comment Re:Also forgets Jews may criticize Israeli actions (Score 1) 929
I don't disagree with you and I see where you're coming from, but my point is that if you come from that background, it's pretty damned unusual and even highly unlikely that you will know "absolutely nothing" about Judaism. At the very least, you will come from a culture that *does* know.
Unless, once again, you're an orphan, have never met anyone else in your family, et cetera.
Comment Re:Also forgets Jews may criticize Israeli actions (Score 1) 929
I'm an ethnic Jew and refer to deity in the plural. Your point is?
Comment Re:About time. (Score 1) 336
I don't think it's that simple. In every corporate culture I've been in, IE is the default. Given it's installed on every machine that has Windows, it's what people use. And if they're not in the IT world, they have no reason to use anything else. Microsoft has presented it as THE browser of choice, and there's no reason for most corporate environments to behave any differently.
Unless you're working for a software company and not on an internal project, nine times out of ten you'll be told users will be forced to use IE, period.
I'm lucky that in my IT experience I've never met anyone who refused to use anything other than IE. If that were the case I'd wonder why they were so willfully ignorant of the other choices out there, or it was a forced choice due to the corporate reasons listed above.
Comment Re:Also forgets Jews may criticize Israeli actions (Score 1) 929
No, no confusion here. Like I said, I'm ethnically Jewish so I know what I'm talking about.
Judaism isn't just a religion; it's a culture. Unless she's an orphan, raised in a vacuum, and has never met other members of her family there's virtually no way for her not to know SOMETHING about the religion.
I was raised in an extremely secular Jewish household, and I still didn't escape not knowing certain details. Even more so, if she knows she's ethnically Jewish then she knows how to be ethnically Jewish which is *still* something. It's not just a matter of coming from a Jewish family; your mother has to be Jewish in order to count.
Again, I still stand by my remarks.
Comment About time. (Score 0) 336
I'm a developer and use Firefox and the "load IE as tab" when I can to avoid using IE. IE is a piece of crap, and given the browsers it's now competing with on the market Microsoft needs to spend time being forced to improve it versus just shrugging their shoulders and forcing the majority of computer users to deal with it as default.
Now there can be some genuine competition and hopefully a chance to improve the software.
Submission + - Are Microsoft's Best Days Behind It? (channelinsider.com)
dasButcher writes: Microsoft may be the biggest, most profitable and most successful technology company ever. But is the party over? A growing chorus of critics and pundits are saying that Microsoft's best days are behind it. In fact, some people are saying that Microsoft isn't making the top 5 list of companies that will survive the cloud computing transition. But there are those who say Microsoft has made an art of coming from behind. So the question is whether Microsoft will mount a comeback and roar back to relevancy or will it end up on the dustbin of history along side DEC and Wang?
Comment Re:Also forgets Jews may criticize Israeli actions (Score 1) 929
As an ethnic Jew, I can tell ya that it's possible to be extremely ignorant about your birth religion, but to proclaim you know "nothing about it" strikes me as being...well, not possible.
