by Joseph Forbes | Apr 23, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, TECHNOLOGY
from the nicht-ohne-meine-ketten dept. In a recent blog post, Netflix details their plans to transition from Silverlight to HTML5, but with one caveat: HTML5 needs to include a built-in DRM scheme. With the W3C’s proposed Encrypted Media Extensions, this may...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 23, 2013 | HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
If you’re building an HTPC, a small workstation, or you just don’t want your rig to take up tons of space under or on top of your desk, you need a smaller PC case. Something that fits the important stuff, but doesn’t waste a lot of space on expansion...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | HAPPINESS, MONEY
While I’m not one to advocate many personal development hacks, there is one “hack” that I think everyone should use: have high standards for yourself. Having high personal standards will almost immediately force personal growth, and will help you...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
A House committee doesn’t change the cyberthreat sharing bill enough to win support from some digital rights groups A U.S. House of Representatives committee failed to make the changes necessary to allay fears about government surveillance in a controversial...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the back-by-popular-demand dept. According to media reports about leaked Windows 8.1 code, the next incarnation of Microsoft’s flagship operating system will have an option to boot directly to the desktop. People have discovered ‘references to a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the high-cost-of-upgrading dept. During a recent trip to an eye doctor, I noticed that she was still using Windows XP. After I suggested that she might need to upgrade soon, she said she couldn’t because she couldn’t afford the $10,000 fee involved...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
In the next couple of days Microsoft plans to introduce an extension that will make the login process for Microsoft accounts more secure. The method, called “two-step verification” in a blog post, will require not only a conventional password, but also a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, HAPPINESS, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
Set the rules for what happens to your Google data if you go off to that great results page in the sky Google provided a somewhat morbid reminder of the increasing primacy of digital data in our lives with the release today of the euphemistically named Inactive...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the safer-than-relying-on-pigoens dept. Vint Cerf, one of the ‘founders of the Internet,’ told an audience April 16 that if he could do it all over again, he would construct the Internet in the mold of Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Cerf, who...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | DATA
from the projected-release-2047 dept. Java Development Kit 8, planned for September 2013, is being delayed until next year because of ‘a renewed focus on security.’ Java has been having security publicity problems recently, but Oracle now seems to be...
