http://www.mudadosk.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:45:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What struck me was U.S. Rep. Ed Markey's (D-Mass.) surprised reaction. Markey said the news was "bone chilling" and told AFP, "I have my eyebrows arched so high they're hitting the ceiling." Anecdotally, I would say the assumption among people involved with media and politics in Beijing is that it is ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/09/04/whos-surprised-that-china-mobile-knows-where-you/ You'll also need to learn to shred like John Robb. Everyone skied well, but John was amazing. That guy can ski anything. (As for you, Ross Mason, you need to learn to ski by next year so that we won't have to slum with boarders. ;-) Tune in below to learn ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/29/the-open-source-goat-rodeo-2008/ Unlike a sadly servile mainstream media, which insisted upon playing to the lowest common denominator, a spunky MoveOn appeared seemingly out of nowhere to rally online opposition to the sham taking place in Washington. As an Internet phenomenon, MoveOn certainly demonstrated how to mobilize public opinion. Indeed, the organization, founded ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/24/time-for-moveonorg-to-move-on/ AMD announced Thursday that it is shipping triple-core processors, a first for the PC market. AMD also updated the quad-core Phenom lineup and reaffirmed that quad-core Opteron chips for servers will be available later in the second quarter. The chipmaker also said that the quad-core Opteron "Barcelona" processor will be ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/24/triple-core-amd-phenom-chips-ship/ Online Armor is a step up from ZoneAlarm in that it includes a database of known trusted programs. So, for example, the first time I run the Ping command it allows it and pops up an alert. The free ZoneAlarm knows nothing, so it objected to Pings. In the Online ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/24/online-armor-firewall-first-impressions/ The head of Google's open-source programs on Monday urged international delegates to vote against certifying Office Open XML as an ISO standard, saying the Microsoft-led effort poses a risk to users who want unfettered access to documents. In a document more thoroughly laying out its position on Open XML, Google ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/24/google-urges-iso-to-give-thumbs-down-to-microsoft/ The survey included responses from 7,548 information security experts in various geographies. Among its other conclusions: Indeed, three-fourths of the information security professionals around the world surveyed by Frost & Sullivan say they now consider avoiding reputation damage to their organizations as a top priority. That fits with the times. ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/24/the-new-byword-in-infosecurity-dont-embarrass-th/ Now he's talking about the power of distributed computing for operations such as search that, as he said "are very hard to do with one computer, or even a very powerful computer." He added, "A cloud computer should have at its disposal a virtually infinite amount of disk, an infinite ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/24/live-blog-www2008-kai-fu-lee-of-google-greater-ch/ In addition to enabling the average Joe to regain a bit of his privacy, the rapid deployment of easy to use crypto will have a major impact on our society: The end of large scale surveillance. I'll now explore the technologies that will make that possible. First, a few facts: ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/24/the-day-the-wiretaps-go-dead/ (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Is Blu-ray the future of laptops? If Sony had its way, that would certainly be the case. And if all Blu-ray-playing laptops were as well-executed as Sony's Vaio NW160J, that wouldn't be the most daunting consideration. Sony has been packaging its Vaio laptops as design-centric, relatively expensive multimedia ... http://www.mudadosk.com/index.php/2010/08/24/blu-ray-laptop-for-under-1000-sony-vaio-nw160j/