by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | HAPPINESS, INTERNET, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
This week marks the rollout of the long delayed “Copyright Alert System” aka the six strike anti-piracy program. It’s a bit confusing at a glance, but it’s not nearly as powerful as you’d think. Here’s how the system works, how...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 2, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the six-strikes-and-you’re-out-out-but-not-really-out-kinda dept. Major internet service providers today(24th) will start monitoring the internet traffic to their customers’ computers and will warn them if they download copyrighted materials using...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
Further infection vectors were incorporated into Stuxnet over time Source: Symantec The first Stuxnet worm was in operation as early as 2007, not just, as previously believed, since 2009. Security firm Symantec found the older variant during a routine check of its...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | DATA, HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the no-learning-for-you dept. The Bandwidth Divide is a form of what economists call the Red Queen effect referring to a scene in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass when Alice races the Red Queen. As the Red Queen tells Alice: ‘It takes all the...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the robots-suffer-texas’s-shenanigans…-for-now dept. “Organizations like the EFF and ACLU have been raising the alarm over increased government surveillance of U.S. citizens. Legislators haven’t been quick to respond to concerns of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the launch-into-orbit,-i-hope dept. “Starting next week, most U.S. Internet users will be subject to a new copyright enforcement system that could force them to complete educational programs, and even slow their Internet speeds to a crawl. A source with...
