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Comment Re:2 Step Authentication (Score 1) 186

by DJCater on Thursday June 02, 2011 @01:02PM (#36322036) Attached to: Google Uncovers China-Based Password Collection Campaign

I also use the Google 2 Step Authentication. Once Facebok implements this as well, I will switch immediately.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/13/0451222/Facebook-Adds-Two-Factor-Authentication

Comment Re:Assumptions out the window (Score 1) 76

by DJCater on Thursday May 26, 2011 @01:58PM (#36253536) Attached to: New Google Tool To Find Trend Correlations

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=Alfred+Hitchcock&t=weekly# is another good example, especially given that this one is just his name and doesn't include the term "birthday" and that searches for his name probably number quite highly anyway.

Comment Re:Assumptions out the window (Score 1) 76

by DJCater on Thursday May 26, 2011 @01:54PM (#36253482) Attached to: New Google Tool To Find Trend Correlations

Yep:

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=Sir+Arthur+Conan+Doyle's+birthday&t=weekly#

Look through the past doodles (US/Global ones) here: http://www.google.com/logos/ and then search for them here: http://correlate.googlelabs.com/ to see how powerful the doodle is at generating search volume.

Comment Highest normalized weekly search term volume? (Score 1) 76

by DJCater on Thursday May 26, 2011 @01:37PM (#36253210) Attached to: New Google Tool To Find Trend Correlations

Here's a quick game. Try and find a term with the highest weekly search volume when normalized against the usual search volume for that term.

Here are a few that I tried:

http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=inauguration&t=weekly# - 19.637
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=Michael+Jackson&t=weekly# - 14.537
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=Olympics&t=weekly# - 11.656
http://correlate.googlelabs.com/search?e=new+year's+eve&t=weekly# - 8.355

Also, check out the "Search by Drawing" option: http://correlate.googlelabs.com/draw - it's great. Draw your own graph and see what search terms correlate with it.

Comment Re:I'm not an Avid Linux User... (Score 1) 289

by DJCater on Saturday December 12, 2009 @03:50PM (#30416512) Attached to: Nouveau NVIDIA Driver To Enter Linux 2.6.33 Kernel

What is a good benchmark?

Comment Pages (Score 1) 446

by DJCater on Thursday December 10, 2009 @01:45PM (#30390918) Attached to: Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface

I don't think many people will be that fussed about non-friends knowing who their friends are. A bigger problem will probably be that Pages that you are a fan of are now visible to everyone. This may go against other privacy measures if for example you're a fan of your hometown, or your employer/college etc. Or something that you generally don't want strangers to know that you like...

Submission + - T-Mobile backs off plan to charge $1.50 for paper (networkworld.com)

Submitted by netbuzz on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @08:44AM

netbuzz writes: Following a torrent of customer complaints, bad publicity and the threat of a class-action lawsuit, T-Mobile has abandoned a plan announced this summer to charge any customer wanting a paper bill $1.50 per month. While the news is being cheered by many T-Mobile customers, it's not going to be as popular with others who praised the extra fee as an environmentally sound inducement to reduce paper use.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/45215

Submission + - BBC Wants DRM on HD Broadcasts (boingboing.net) 1

Submitted by NickFortune on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @05:09AM

NickFortune writes: Over on BoingBoing, Danny O'Brien has pointed out that, the BBC has asked the regulator for permission to add DRM to their High Definition broadcasts.
Apparently this is at the behest of "content providers".

Offcom, the regulatory body in question, has asked for comments, but the window closes today. So if you don't want DRM added to the Beeb's broadcasts, read the
proposal and explain why this is a bad idea.

Comment Re:Firefox isn't helping (Score 1) 392

by DJCater on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @11:11AM (#25299963) Attached to: Google's Obfuscated TCP

A false sense of security is worse than no sense of security.

NJ Spammer Gets Two Years Jail for AOL Spam Scam 73

Posted by Zonk on Sunday November 04, 2007 @04:26AM from the blind-justice-sometimes-strikes-true dept.

Tech.Luver writes "A man from New Jersey has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for sending more than a million spam messages to AOL users. 'Todd Moeller was sentenced ... after he was caught making a deal with a government informant to send junk e-mails advertising a computer security program in return for 50 percent of the profits ... Moeller told the informant via instant messaging he could conceal the source of the e-mails through his access to 40 different servers and had profited $40,000 a month from other spam e-mail scams that promoted stocks, prosecutors said.'"

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