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I'm writing a desktop application that I'd like to deploy onto Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. I'm trying to pick the language that will give me the most conveniences, without setting timebombs that will go off down the road. Here's what I think I know so far: C++ Pros: 1) resulting code runs fastest, provided I am not a bonehead 2) most flexibility in memory management 3) Maximum difficulty in reverse engineering my object code, though there is nothing revolutionary or complex in what I plan to write. 4) Tools are rock-solid. C++ Cons: 1) memory management is the biggest hassle,...

KABUL, June 2, 2009 – The command overseeing U.S. operations in Afghanistan today announced the official launch of its social networking strategy with pages on three online sites. The social networking pages are the first-ever effort by the military in Afghanistan to engage online audiences directly with news, videos, pictures and other information from Operation Enduring Freedom, military officials said. In the two weeks since beta testing began, social networking has become a major focus of U.S. Forces Afghanistan’s communication efforts, rapidly delivering an unfiltered view of the war from troops on the ground and opening a two-way dialogue with...

(United States Army) This week the Army not only launched an official blog portal, but also an Army fan page on Facebook.

Veterans In Politics Talk Show Introduces Steve Ross and Joel Jarvis LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net February 7: Steve D. Ross Las Vegas City Councilman Ward 6: Joel Jarvis President of the Link Las Vegas: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson and Co-Hosted by J. "Sage" Bocook. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and hosts at (702) 942-7371.

How concerns over cyberspying stalled a deal with Chinese vendor Huawei.As Nortel files for bankruptcy Wednesday, analysts point to sinking sales, missed earnings and poor management as drivers for the Canadian telecom's long descent to insolvency. But a less-discussed factor may have scuttled the struggling networking company's last hope for a savior: concerns over Chinese cyberspying. Toronto-based Nortel, whose stock has lost more than 97% of its value in the last year, announced in September that it would sell its metro Ethernet business, an Internet-focused piece of the company that generates about $1.5 billion a year in revenue. The most...

When my 81-year-old dad sent me a LinkedIn invitation, I knew some milestone had been passed. It's an online-networking world, and working people who aren't already on the bandwagon need to catch up, fast. Here are 10 tips to help you get your online networking activities going without ruffling any feathers: 1. Get a new "one" You'll need a ONE — an online networking e-mail account — just for use in discussion groups and social networking sites. If you don't get an account just for this purpose, you may find your "regular" home e-mail address (or, worse, your work address!)...

Hi everyone. In the neverending search for likeminded people I have started a facebook group called "Freepers on Facebook" for anyone who is interested. I am hopeful that we can use it for activism and networking in the future. Cheers

Jeff Pulver, King of Blogs, Web 2.0, VoIP Rocks Israel By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Tel Aviv ----- May 23, 2008 ....... It is Lag Ba'omer in Israel. The Jewish bonfire holiday, said to be in commemoration of the signal fires that ancient Jews lit on the mountain tops to relay messages. But perhaps the largest, hottest fire to take place in Israel last night between modern day Jewish digital messengers was that of the party thrown in Tel Aviv, Israel by blog and Web 2.0 guru Jeff Pulver. Pulver, the author of what's referred to as "the Pulver...

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Sex, Romance Fades At JDate As World Of Jewish Fine Tunes Dating By Carole Rubinstein Israel News Agency Jerusalem ----August 17 ....... Talk about sex appeal, then talk about the World of Jewish. Talk about boredom and tired formulas, then talk JDate. There was a time when Jewish singles looking for a match through the Internet went straight to JDate, the largest Internet based Jewish dating service. The idea was simple, fill in a short questionnaire based on your dating preferences and the JDate search engine would return a listing of all those of the opposite sex that answer to...

Social Networking Class War: MySpace Vs. Facebook Claire Cain Miller 07.23.07, 6:00 AM ET A flurry of recent articles have observed that young people are leaving MySpace for Facebook in droves, setting off speculation that MySpace is becoming the latest victim of fickle teens following the hot new thing. Not so, says University of California, Berkeley, researcher Danah Boyd. Not all teens are leaving MySpace, she wrote in a recent essay--instead, they're splitting up along class lines. Boyd confirms what teens in any high school across the country already know: Affluent kids from educated, well-to-do families have been fleeing MySpace...

World of Jewish Launches Networking Site For Business, Politics, Dating, Jobs, Medicine and Culture By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ----July 17 ..... The World of Jewish website, the first free and comprehensive Jewish social, dating and business network offering a wide and diverse variety of subjects through blogs, Wikis and videos, was officially launched this week from Israel. The World of Jewish, which already has over 10,000 members, offers its readers everything from dating, jobs, videos and news to real estate, travel, business and political discussion forums. The new Jewish social networking site will be using conventional blogs,...

Test your internet connection speed and post it here, for fun, bragging rights and to see if you are getting the speed you really pay for.

WASHINGTON, March 5, 2007 – The Internet is the most important venue for the radicalization of Islamic youth, the head of intelligence at U.S. Central Command, said in an interview aired yesterday. Army Brig. Gen. John Custer and other experts described the effects of terrorists’ online recruiting and networking methods during a 60 Minutes interview with correspondent Scott Pelley. “I see 16-, 17-year-olds who have been indoctrinated on the Internet turn up on the battlefield,” Custer said. “We capture them; we kill them every day in Iraq, in Afghanistan.” Stephen Ulph, a researcher and writer on militant Islam, is...

LinkedIn, the fast growing business networking site announced Monday that it has closed on $12.8 million in financing from Bessemer Venture Partners and European Founders Fund. The new round of funding will be used to conduct “forays into new markets” in Europe, testing out new ideas to gauge user interest, said Keith Rabois, VP of Business and Corporate Development at LinkedIn. This is the third round of funding for the Palo Alto, California-based company, whose CEO, Reid Hoffman is himself an angel investor in many Silicon Valley tech companies. Previous funders Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners have put $14.7 million...

The next time you're at an airport looking for a wireless hot spot, and you see one called "Free Wi-Fi" or a similar name, beware -- you may end up being victimized by the latest hot-spot scam hitting airports across the country. You could end up being the target of a "man in the middle" attack, in which a hacker is able to steal the information you send over the Internet, including usernames and passwords. And you could also have your files and identity stolen, end up with a spyware-infested PC and have your PC turned into a spam-spewing zombie....

BOSTON (Reuters) - Business software maker Novell Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) posted disappointing quarterly results on Tuesday due to weak sales of older products, and said it expected to take restructuring charges in 2007, driving its shares down 10 percent. While Novell reported a preliminary fiscal fourth-quarter profit, bouncing from a year-ago loss, revenue fell 15 percent to $244.9 million, short of the average Wall Street forecast of $251.5 million, according to Reuters Estimates. "Overall these are disappointing results," said Jefferies & Co. analyst Katherine Egbert, citing the lower-than-expected quarterly sales figure and Novell's 2007 sales outlook. [Snip] A longtime...

I'm sure there has got to be other Freeper's out there who game... :) Found this article today: A PC hardware review site has interviewed a company called Bigfoot Networks on its pending "Killer Gaming Nic" - it promises greatly reduced ping and latency for online gaming. Hope it really works!

You probably have a lot of MP3 files -- like the smash hit "Crazy" by the U.K.'s Gnarls Barkley -- on your PC. Maybe some oldies too, and a lot of other computer files, with extensions like .EXE, .MPEG, .JPEG, and other, often confusing, file formats. With all that valuable content, maybe you should think about maximizing your Windows XP operating system, getting more out of it than just playing MP3s, and also securing those expensive files from iTunes? By Gene Koprowski

July 19, 2006 - Imagine the Internet as a college campus. Amazon.com is the bookstore. Wikipedia is the library. Facebook is the snazzy new dorm. Friendster is the dreary old one. And the classroom? That just may be a newcomer, Essembly.com. Essembly, designed last year by Joe Green, 23, a friend and former Harvard classmate of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is the emerging online social network of the serious-minded. Like Facebook and MySpace, the site is free and lets users browse friends' photos and personal information. But unlike more organic networks, it actively promotes intellectual discussion. In the spirit of...