I was walking down the hall listening to my inkjet printer cranking away, and a peculiar thought struck me. LASERs are astounding (LASER = Light Amplification Of Stimulated Emission Of Radiation, I looked it up, didn’t memorize it). Really. Think about this for a moment. Think inkjet printers are good? (Yeah, compared with dot matrix.)…Continue Reading…
Some of the greatest breakthroughs were made possible by war. As devastating as it is, I can’t help but think that it’s easily possible for war to be a good thing. Without it, people are lazy. And with it, research projects get funding. Only four years after World War II had ended in Europe, a…Continue Reading…
This has been all over the news lately, and I personally am not an expert in this and therefore have nothing to add. But if you have time, this is very interesting reading. Think about the wider implications. Any software you buy or download could have something like this, and it’s easily possible that nobody…Continue Reading…
I had a dream and it went something like this.. Imagine the world’s top ten hackers, crackers, and programmers gathered together to work as one team for one purpose: the creation of the world’s deadliest computer virus. The International Virus Project Convention is an event that is doing just that. With all of the world’s…Continue Reading…
USC, through software.usc.edu, provides firewall and antivirus software to students for free. There are other applications available, too, including an FTP/SFTP client. My Norton AntiVirus 2003 free subscription expired, so I uninstalled it and installed the USC-provided version instead (Corporate Edition). The updates required were: Avenge 1.5 MicroDefs2 Corp 9 Symantec Client Firewall IDS Signatures…Continue Reading…
Looks like Google’s making good use of their acquisition of Urchin. Like Picasa and Keyhole, Google is turning acquired products into products of their own by applying a Google flavor and then reducing the price (because they can). And having the name of Google behind it is likely to make the new Google Analytics one…Continue Reading…