This credit card prank pulled off by Zug.com had me laughing hysterically. It is funny mainly because it is so true. I could see myself getting away with trying this. No one really ever looks at your credit card signature. The lazy store clerk just looks at you with a look of disgust that they even have […]
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Microsoft is claiming that Open Source software violates 235 of its patents. The article says that Microsoft is claiming that the Linux kernel violates 42 of Microsoft’s patents, and the user interface violates 65. I guess Microsoft has come a long way since they stole the look and feel of Lotus 123. Microsoft is certainly […]
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Google released a report that states that 10 percent of websites are dangerous.  Â
 First of all, I would like to say that Google is doing some great work. This is the second major news that I have seen based on reports from Google. These reports show that Google is using its position as the search leader […]
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This article claims that most of malware (spyware and such) comes from a very few Web Hosting providers. The top four being:
Number of infected sites:
iPowerWeb                    11,000
Layered Technologies 2500
ThePlanet.com              2000
Internap                          1400
The report puts China far behind with their top ranked malware hosting provider being at 800. This part of the study is somewhat surprising. I think most people in the industry would guess […]
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Filed under: Spam, Open Source, Web, News, Security
A group called Project Honey Pot has leveled a lawsuit against a number of spammers on behalf of their clients. The way this works is you set up an email address or an entire domain as a honey-pot on your system which catches spam and relays it to their servers. The honey-pot analogy comes from putting […]
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Dell has announced they will be shipping Ubuntu 7.0.4 Feisty Fawn on their new Linux based PC’sThis could be a really good thing for the Linux, as well as the Open Source Communities. I’m very cautious, yet also somewhat excited about this news. I’m still not convinced that Linux is ready for the desktop arena. I’ve been […]
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Filed under: Open Source, Linux, News, General