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by athloi on Monday May 19, 2008 @11:34PM (#23471016) Attached to: Atom-Based Mini-ITX Motherboard Available

http://www.mini-box.com/Intel-D945GCLF-Mini-ITX-Motherboard

$80

I think this box would be an ideal computing appliance for the average user. Of course, I would recommend CentOS and a carefully configured set of applications and GUI.

Think, like, your mom and dad checking their email and looking for bargains on Craigslist. At 4 watts.

Submission + - Connecticut enacts opt-out personal info law (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday December 27, 2007 @01:42PM

Technical Writing Geek writes: "The State of Connecticut wants to bring the consumer-pleasing goodness of the federal Do Not Call registry to other forms of data. Governor Jodi Rell announced this week that she plans to offer a state-wide opt-out service that Connecticut residents can use to keep personal information from being aggregated and acted upon by online data brokers.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071227-connecticut-governor-plans-opt-out-system-for-personal-info.html"

Bookmark How a bread truck invented the internet (theregister.co.uk)

by athloi on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @12:00PM

Submission + - Online ad tracking targetted by privacy groups (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

Technical Writing Geek

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @10:47AM

Technical Writing Geek writes: "A coalition of privacy groups Wednesday called for creation of a "Do Not Track List," that would prohibit advertisers from tracking online movements of consumers.

Similar to the popular Do Not Call telephone lists, the Internet proposal comes as online advertising revenues are growing rapidly, providing critical revenue to startups and Web giants such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_hi_te/online_advertising_privacy;ylt=omg_wtf"

Submission + - Seven states extend Microsoft antitrust judgment (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday October 18, 2007 @09:57AM

Technical Writing Geek writes: "California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia have moved (PDF) to extend their antitrust judgment against Microsoft until November 12, 2012. The report laments the state of OEM web browser bundling, saying that "no major OEM currently distributes a browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE)." This is important due to the rise of new middleware platforms (such as Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's own Silverlight) that can create rich, OS-independent, web-based applications.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071018-seven-states-move-to-extend-final-judgement-against-microsoft.html"

Submission + - Group says retailers should not store credit data (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Technical Writing Geek

on Friday October 05, 2007 @09:49AM

Technical Writing Geek writes: "Simmering discontent within the retail industry over the payment card industry (PCI) data security standards erupted into the open this week with the National Retail Federation (NRF) asking credit card companies to stop forcing retailers to store payment card data.

PCI is a data security standard mandated by Visa International Inc., MasterCard International Inc., American Express Co., Discover and the Japan Credit Bureau. It requires companies to implement a set of prescribed security controls for protecting cardholder data. Though the requirements went into affect more than two years ago, a large number of big retailers are still noncompliant because of a variety of issues that include legacy system challenges, rules interpretation issues and continuously evolving guidelines.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9040958&intsrc=hm_list"

Submission + - Online videos may conduct viruses (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

Technical Writing Geek

on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @09:31AM

Technical Writing Geek writes: "As anti-spam technology improves, hackers are finding new vehicles to deliver their malicious code. And some could be embedded in online video players, according to a report on Internet threats released Tuesday by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center as it holds its annual summit.

One worm discovered in November 2006 launches a corrupt Web site without prompting after a user opens a media file in a player. Another program silently installs spyware when a video file is opened. Attackers have also tried to spread fake video links via postings on YouTube.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/ap_on_hi_te/cybersecurity"

Submission + - Google still launching gPhone (digitimes.com) 1

Submitted by

Technical Writing Geek

on Thursday September 20, 2007 @10:57AM

Technical Writing Geek writes: "Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset but has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners, according to sources at Taiwan handset makers.

http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20070918PD204.html"

Submission + - Everything you've read about Vista DRM is lies (zdnet.com) 2

Submitted by

Technical Writing Geek

on Monday September 17, 2007 @04:46PM

Technical Writing Geek writes: "Self-described "professional paranoid" Peter Gutmann of the University of Auckland has become the most widely quoted source of information on DRM and content protection in Windows Vista. The trouble is, Gutmann's work is riddled with factual errors, distortions, contradictions, and outright untruths, and his conclusions are equally wrong.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=299"

Submission + - Workers cause more hacks than viruses (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by

Technical Writing Geek

on Monday September 17, 2007 @10:22AM

Technical Writing Geek writes: "A new report finds that, for the first time, virus infections have slipped to the second spot on the list of computer security troublemakers. In first place... a company's own workers.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070916-report-insiders-cause-more-computer-security-problems-than-viruses.html"

Submission + - 54% of CEOs dissastisfied with innovation (cio.com)

Submitted by

athloi

on Friday August 31, 2007 @12:35PM

athloi writes: "Invention is new and clever; innovation is a process that takes knowledge and uses it to get a payback. Invention without a financial return is just an expense. Ideas are really the sexy part of innovation and there's rarely a shortage of them. If you look at the biggest problems around innovation, rarely does a lack of ideas come up as one of the top obstacles; instead, it's things like a risk-averse culture, overly lengthy development times and lack of coordination within the company. Not enough ideas, on the other hand, is an obstacle for only 17 percent. At the end of the day all that creativity and all those ideas have to show on the bottom line. The goal of innovation is to make or save money, and IT should never lose sight of that central fact.

http://www.cio.com/article/134201/"

Submission + - Yahoo edges out Google in customer satisfaction (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by

athloi

on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @11:10AM

athloi writes: "The University of Michigan's American Consumer Satisfaction Index shows some significant shifts this year in consumer satisfaction among several major online players: Google, Yahoo, Ask, and AOL. For one, Google no longer holds first place. Now that they've become the Borg-monolith, few trust them, and the kinks in their armor once covered by hype now show.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070814-yaho o-edges-out-google-in-customer-satisfaction.html"

Submission + - Mainstream media offers fair view of hackers. (forbes.com)

Submitted by selain03 on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @09:38AM

selain03 writes: Forbes has an article on the recent Defcon event that is surprisingly tolerant of hackers.

Submission + - Social networking sites full of security holes (yahoo.com)

Submitted by

athloi

on Monday August 06, 2007 @11:16AM

athloi writes: "Social networking Web sites such as MySpace.com are increasingly juicy targets for computer hackers, who are demonstrating a pair of vulnerabilities they claim expose sensitive personal information and could be exploited by online criminals. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070806/ap_on_hi_te/so cial_networking_vulnerabilities"

Submission + - Case of the great hot-site swap

Submitted by BobB on Friday August 03, 2007 @04:16PM

BobB writes: Two universities — Bowdoin in Maine and Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles — have entered a unique arrangement under which they are backing up each other's web site, email and servers on different ends of the U.S. They say this could be a disaster recovery model all sorts of organizations could follow. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080307-bowdo in-lmu.html

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