Hi. I'm Joe. I like law, tech, and stuff for geeks. I'm an Associate Editor at Phillyist and a contributor to Geekadelphia. I judge people loudly in public but other than that I'm a nice guy.
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We believe it does not violate US law to collect payload data from networks that are configured to be openly accessible (i.e., not secured by encryption and thus accessible by any user's device)
Google says yes.
Source: The Register
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Here's a new post that may or may not keep happening. These are the fun stories I looked at but didn't have time to form a cogent opinion on.
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Image via Wikipedia So it looks like this may be a classic case of going live with a new version before testing it on all the hardware it's likely to encounter post-rollout. As much as 10% of the US military's GPS fleet was rendered stupid when ground-based software updates gave in-field devices the jitters.
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IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan confirmed to reporters at a Bafta screening of the upcoming fourth series last night that a fifth instalment of the show had already been commissioned.
The fourth season has yet to commence but already loyal fans are assured of yet another season of the most excellent British nerdery this side of Dr. Who.
This put a smile on my face on an otherwise extremely trying day. Trust me: this smile is the product of maximum happiness, or it would not have penetrated the thick fog of quiet desperation that has taken up residence upon this day.
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This is not the old west. Evolve or die, Murdoch. Trade hoarding content for controlling the dissemination in an engaging way that uses the free exchange of the web to add value to the content.
Would Murdoch have outlets limit their content to those people with sufficient disposable income to pay each individual news company a subscription or a la carte fee for articles?
IMHO, Pay walls are not the answer. Pay walls are an Old Media way of trying to solve a New Media problem. How do you monetize content without alienating your audience?
My suggestion is to create a community. Integrate social networking and user discussion tightly into the interface of the news site you're trying to save. Give me a reason to go there and, instead of merely reading the news, really have an experience unique to your site.
That is one reasonable, if less than expert, example of how New Media might answer the problem with which Murdoch is confronted. I'm sure there are instances of sites already doing things like that, but I just can't think of any now because I'm a busy bee. If you know any, let me know in the comments!
Murdoch is the face of the sun that is setting on Old Media.
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The self-styled Godfather of Soul's body was kept in the grounds of his daughter Deanna's South Carolina house while a public mausoleum was being constructed. However another daughter, LaRhonda Pettit, told newspapers on Friday that the body was missing, presumed stolen.
This is really messed up. Even if it's just the child of his who wanted to exhume the body, it's still messed up. In the future, legendary entertainers will live on in those "Futurama" head-bowls, bodies be damned.
But for now, you do not dig someone up. Anyone. But especially James Brown.
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We can confirm that some of our servers have been affected by the Conficker virus. We’re currently disinfecting the infected servers in the system and expect this process to be complete by the end of the week.
- Spokesperson for NHS Leeds (branch of England's National Health Service)
It's not. It's still around. Dormant on millions of computers. Estimates range from 3 million to 15 million. Yours could be one of them.
Check for the infection here:
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Chapter founder Daniel Jones told the paper that meetings include "meditation techniques, Jedi theory and lightsaber practice."
They also learn "Jedi mind tricks, or neurolinguistic programming, as a way of dealing with people in a peaceful and calm manner."
You may think these people are lame. I, on the other hand, wish I could join them.
"This *is* the blog you are looking for."
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Mozilla vice president of engineering Mike Shaver has reiterated that the open source outfit has no intention of rolling the H.264 video codec into its Firefox browser, even though the likes of YouTube and Vimeo are using the patented codec with early versions of their plug-in-free HTML5 video players.
Firefox supports the HTML video tag used by these players, but it opts for the open and license-free Ogg Theora codec rather than H.264, which is a patented technology in many countries.
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Cryptographers have moved closer to their goal of eavesdropping on cellphone conversations after cracking the secret code used to prevent the interception of radio signals as they travel between handsets and mobile operators' base stations.The code is designed to prevent the interception of phone calls by forcing mobile phones and base stations to rapidly change radio frequencies over a spectrum of 80 channels. Without knowing the precise sequence, would-be eavesdroppers can assemble only tiny fragments of a conversation.At a hacker conference in Berlin that runs through Wednesday, the cryptographers said they've cracked the algorithm that determines the random channel hopping and have devised a practical means to capture entire calls using equipment that costs about $4,000. At the heart of the crack is open-source software for computer-controlled radios that makes the frequency changes at precisely the same time, and in the same order, that the cellphone and base station do.. . .Nohl described the channel-hopping techniques at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress, an annual hacker conference in Berlin, along with fellow reverse engineer Chris Paget. Their presentation is here.
