Browser Wars, take two

various FR links | 12-22-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

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Microsoft: Vista won't get a backdoor

 Is this like the "NSA Key"?

 

 

 

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Hey Neighbor, Stop Piggybacking on My Wireless

If your browser can handle flash, click here then click on the picture of the daddy and the little girl:

You'll see a nice basic primer on all this.

WEP futility. There are also commonly available cracking tools that will bust open WEP with zero difficulty or expertise. Here's a more accessible comparo.  hattip: Petronski

Wireless World: Clandestine communications

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Intnert posting control bill

 

The problem of thin-skinned politicos (NJ bill to ban anonymous posting)

 

Blocking web sites--a HOSTS file.--From the bottom of my Freeper home page ThePythonicCow:

I am currently analyzing hosts file, proxy and DNS tools to fight malware, such as

• hpHOSTS
• Hostsman
• eDexter
• DNSKong
• Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File
• a HOSTS file.

I haven't gotten much further in this analysis

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NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums...--Remember McCain-Feingold? This is ridiculous, and those responsible should booted from office.

Here is this moron's contact info. I just sent him an email he won't like.Also mentioned he just committed political suicide.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/Biondi.asp

How do they intend to enforce it?

China’s virtual cops pinpoint web dissent

Jing Jing and Cha Cha, of course!

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Samsung unveils 8GB hard-drive phone--I ain't buyin' a phone that's smarter than I am.

Linux Works Even for Total Newbies

AND YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS IS?

A Free Online Encyclopedia: Digital Universe .. aims to be the most comprehensive storehouse.

Stronger Solar Storms Predicted [50% increase!]Blackouts May Result

Solar flares may pack a bigger punch

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CNET How-to courses: Personal computer clinic(FREE)

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Camera Phone Question--http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/7-03192004-267058.html ATLANTA - When Lisa Johnson saw a man exposing himself to her in a parking lot, she reached for her cell phone - not to call 911, but to snap a picture.

 

What can you do about identity theft?

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Almost iPod, but in the End a Samsung--There are inexpensive alternatives to the iPod out there for about $115. They hold like 2GB of songs, but that's still a good bit.

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http://www.bizzyblog.com/

Weekend Unanswered Question 2: How Long Before the U.S. Has Britain’s “1984 Society”?

Filed under: Privacy/ID Theft, Taxes & Government, TWUQs — TBlumer @ 5:33 pm

This will probably surprise many who don’t follow goings-on overseas very closely.

Commenting on the current state of life in Great Britain a few weeks ago, Theodore Dalrymple opened an op-ed column in the UK Times Online with a stunning statement, and built on it relentlessly:

A gallop down the road to serfdom
ID cards and smoking bans are only the tip of British servitude
February 16, 2006

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Geek Superhero. www.geeksuperhero.co...

In the Geek's toolbox are three useful things:
1. Startup editor. You can look to see if anything is starting up when you fire up your computer, and delete the unwanted one.
2. Browser startup editor, same but for your browser
3. In Use file delete. Allows you to tag files for deletion upon startup.

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Some doubt safety of wireless

Free songs and videos for your iPod--A Recording Engineer's Guide to the Secrets of iTunes and iPod - great article with a few tweaks...

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Government Farm ID Plan Raises Questions [Coast to Coast AM Discussion Now!]

 

Big Brother

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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Geeks for the Ethical Treatment of Robots

Isaac Asimov is spinning in his grave: Slashdot | U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov’s First Law.  link: 360 comments

 

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Iron Fist  3/15/2006 07:03PM PST

 

I say we make some of these and program them to kill Jihadis.

Well, and goodlife L³eftists :-)

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I'm a programmer, but Slashdot geeks (lots of Silly Valley folks there) are so far L³eft they can only walk in circles. Issac Asimov's Laws for robots?

Please. Next they'll be quoting the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.

Idiots.

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Quilly Mammoth  3/15/2006 08:44PM PST

 

I suppose ya'll have heard of the Baen Free Library? Authors such as Drake, Niven, Pournelle and Ringo have novels there, in virtually any format, for FREE download.

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Wireless World: Attack of the 'botnets'

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zombie  3/19/2006 10:54PM PST

 

Ay caramba, in the middle of all this -- I'm halfway through my SF moonbat report -- the crew of hackers that have been harrassing me out of "l'Universite Sidi Med Ben Abdallah de Fes" (i.e. the University of Fez in Morocco) have again gone on a rampage of seizing control of unattended computers around the world and using them to bombard me with viruses. I just checked the email and got a fresh byte-blitz of virus-laden emails from Lebanon, American University in Wash DC, and Ben Gurion University Israel (I'm guessing from the "...@bgumail.bgu.ac.il" suffixes), and a bunch of random French sites. Either the Moroccans are partial to hacking French computers, or the French are utterly lackadaisical in protecting themselves from being hacked. But the IPs all trace back to Morocco. http://www.zombietime.com/   Zombie? take a gander at this. Looks like those DNS attacks could get a whole lot worse. "Little did I know I was a cutting-edge victim!"

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Bump for later

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Microsoft Vista: Not 'People Ready'

Run iPod Diagnostics

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Jailed Spam King Caught Conspiring To Kill Witness--Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Who want to pass the hat to get his future roommate a lifetime supply of ci@lis and h3rb4l v1@gr@?

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IE Exploit Strikes, Installs Spyware-- Step-by-step directions for disabling Active Scripting.

Another, more comprehensive option is to set your security level to "High" as opposed to "Medium" or "Custom", and then add site that require additional functionality and that you trust to the "Trusted" domain. This method creates a sort of "opt-in" method of Web safety, where essentially no site can do anything except display basic HTML unless you specifically permit it by adding it to the safe list.

Other options are switching to Firefox or Opera web browsers, or doing everyday tasks under a "User" rather than an "Administrator" account. However, these options are impractical for some people.