I used to use Google Buzz a lot. It was a simple way to share crap without spamming everyone. It was also great for those family members who did nothing but find stories, pictures and videos to email out all day long. I also used Google to track location but now everything has followed open social networking. I dont care about that. Google should step back and really think about where they were and where they are at now. Along with being "me too" they, just like other companies, have tried to cram everything into whatever service they have. Its like taking the small grocery store at the corner and putting everything under the sun in it to buy (kind of like wally world). You just want to buy bread and milk, you dont care about lawn mowers, mountain bikes and toilet seats. If I want to share with others I dont need Google suggesting to me 50 things im not interested in. Keep it simple. You want the busy Google+, fine, keep it, but put Buzz back down for those who just want something lean and to the point.

Supposedly the presidents daily agenda is classified, so technically, if the president didn't have a clearance they wouldn't even be able to know what they were supposed to do for the day. They also started saying 8 TS but then said 7 TS later, not that one less matters but I wonder what the deal was with the slip. Protecting data even at a low level is stressed with the consequences being termination, files or even jail time. What scares me most isn't that they are letting her off, its that people are stupid/ignorant enough to vote for her still.

A bud of mine's dad has some farm land. Just so happens he is less than a mile from a lake and public land with trails. A Google user has decided to make a path going onto the farmland, which is also gated and posted as being private land, to make a path going past his dads barn. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage has been done to farm equipment and other property. Google accepts no liability stating some user posted it not them. Google is careless in their mapping process. If they will not police their own users at some point people will get big brother to do it. I strongly suggest Google do it.

Probably not but why? Perhaps because he was in shock that someone would guess such a complexity of 2 repeating letters because he thought it was so simple it was absolutely brilliant. Or perhaps its because his treasured Google+ account was still safe because of the 2 factor authentication which gives him a warm fuzzy every time he receives a text on his phone...who knows...who cares...

I could see where some government agencies would be proactively searching for offenders but this is a bit ridiculous. This aligns with the movie Minority Report (if you haven't seen it its not a bad flick, you could do more useless things with your time). Also, how would you tell a pen tester from a real risk? Some peoples 'good/revolutionary ideas' should be kept to themselves. Watch your own crap, block what you don't need contact with and lock down your internals as much as possible while still letting the end user do their job. If you let users have their personal devices on site then block social networking, webmail, cloud storage, etc. If some systems need access to certain remote resources your blocking, create a different subnet and allow that subnet out but monitor it.

Whats the use. Every manufacturer is like a 3yr old saying "Watch me! Watch me! See what I can do?!" Almost all the 3rd party vendors are doing the same thing, installing overlays and extra apps that no one really wants which uses up precious storage, memory and cpu cycles. Android is highly customizable unlike other mobile OS platforms (Apple & Windows namely) and you can always install different launchers, etc to improve or customize your user experience. I would like to see more vendors sell their devices stock then give us the option to pull their customizations off of their personal app store and install them on our own. As it stands now, when I customize my device i could be voiding the warranty for any sort of service via my carrier or the manufacture.

I used to use Adobe Photoshop and Gimp to touch-up photographs and now with the help of these fine upstanding individuals I now realize the err of my ways and that I was racist when trying to touch-up photographs and pictures. When I go to get my photo taken for class pictures or with a professional photographer and they offer filters to improve the images from blemishes, etc I am promoting racism. I just cant believe how well all these racist things have been hidden from me all my life!! ...and if you believe that I have some swamp land in the Mojave desert I can sell you on the cheap... One word, Idiocracy...

Im at the point where i dont trust android. The problem is its a necessary evil if i want to use a smart phone. I dont want a windows phone, dont want BB and HP epically failes to bring crap to market. If you DID want to store crap id suggest setting up SSH on a nix box and use that.

Why not give the systems over to Sony. Wipe what you want off the systems, encrypt the rest and let them touch them all they want. Once they do he can simply claim "What? That was never on the system when I had it!" Unless I'm wrong, once Sony touches the systems their pretty much no longer good as evidence. There would be no legal logging of what was being done so Geo could simply claim they changed the data. Granted that gives them access to everything on the drive but still, encrypt the crap you want untouched and forget the password.

Well, sorta. Sony wants to argue that someone can steal intellectual property and rip games. A big issue is that a highly advertised and desired component was the Alternate OS. Personally, I wanted to use Alternate OS to run Gentoo. Never got the chance before it was taken off. I dont have time to "crack" my PS3 and run an OS. I barely have time to play a stupid game unless its vacation time. never the less, if Sony had left Alternate OS alone and simply tried to update their firmware or patch the hole in some way, do you think this would have ended up better? How about hiring Hotz? I dobt many will really opt out of buying PS4. Your other options are a Microsoft gaming console and Nintendo. I think Sony should focus on hardening their security and less time trying to reem the community at large.

If you really want some control over the kid, start with loading Ubuntu on the netbook. Next create an OpenDNS acct and set up the DNS on the netbook to use OpenDNS's servers. You can filter what type of content the kid can hit. Next, don't give out the root password, then he cant sudo anything. One of three things will eventually happen, the kid will conform to your security mold and just live with it, will hate it and rebel by simply not using it anymore or will figure out how to hack it or reinstall Ubuntu and do whatever he wants. In any case, XP will require more administration by the user than a 4yr old should probably have to worry about. That said, kids are brilliant. The minds of younger children are begging to learn and absorb about everything so don't be surprised if the kid surpasses you in a few weeks or months.

Anything done on the company network is company property whether its physical or intellectual, hard or soft. First off, don't do personal business on company resources (email wife, save family photos, etc). If your going to compute from work set up a web based mail acct and use that instead and make sure encryption is turned on (try gmail). Store your crap at home, you can stand a NAS (Network Access Storage) device up at home for around $400, a one time fee. Set it up as a RAID 1 or 5 depending on the unit you buy. Make sure you connect it to a good surge protector or UPS. As far as the dead-mans switch goes, unless you set up another individual to delete your data, if someone wants to see it bad enough they will eventually crack your security. If you have things so sensitive you don't want anything seeing them then maybe you should keep them in your head and not on your drive.

I wonder how well ISPs log who has leased addresses being most use DHCP. Wonder if Grandma will end up with an IP used to download a movie and get framed for it and sued for her life savings to make a point.

I cant say for sure but this might not be legal. Back in the dial-up days i remember different prices for different amounts of data. Unlimited was the big thing. ISPs continued to use 'Unlimited internet access' to include some phone carriers (sprint mainly). If you purchased your internet service from your ISP under the pretense that it was Unlimited Internet Access then you could say they are offing less for the same price and forcing you to take it. There is a legal term used which i cant remember off the top of my head but this could definitely cause an issue for Earthlink and Comcast if someone got the ball rolling with it. Also, how would you compensate the price for the 250gig cap as opposed to unlimited? What fraction of unlimited is 250gig? One could say that 250gig cap was worth $9.99/month or $5.99/year as opposed to the Unlimited price tag. If someone is over using bandwidth the ISP could consult the customer and give them options to upgrade or play it dirty and allow problems to arise that affect their internet connection intermittently. Maybe the customer will eventually leave the ISPand become another ISPs problem child.

This is an example of another environmentalist saying "Hey, wouldn't it be great if..." and not having a clue about what they are about to say. Lets look at a few things. 1. If a car is turned off (of course these are cars that opt in to this program) but it will not crank again it produces a traffic issue 2. If a car is turned off before it is stopped this produces a braking issue involving safety. Let me explain, most systems use manifold vacuum to be used with the braking system. Without the vacuum supply your have basically one shot at pressing the brakes and getting a good solid brake pedal, otherwise your manually trying to push the brakes which is virtually impossible to stop a car at speed. 3. At an intersection, there are 4 directions. What system will be used to ID which vehicles are going which way and which ones should be stopped? Perhaps the person in the straight lane has their turn signal to get into the left turn lane and is waiting for traffic to pass so they can move in but the light system has them stopped till the straight light goes again. 4. Hacking the system is always a threat. Remember OnStar early in its existence? Remember all the doors, windows, ect going haywire? Hmmm... Thats probably enough comment for now. It seems pretty much everyone is looking down on the idea. IBM was a little late announcing this, should have done it on April 1.