Ok, so this has absolutely nothing to do with computers, the interenet and pc security; but, you got to admit, it’s one cool machine. Super Snake: Shelby To Create Bigger ‘Stang With Longer Fangs and 725 Hp? Read more at ShadowPuterDude

Large swaths of garbled human DNA once dismissed as junk appear to contain some valuable sections, according to a new study by researchers at the School of Medicine and the UC-Santa Cruz. The scientists propose that this redeemed DNA plays a role in controlling when genes turn on and off. ...

Beware of the mad scientist…A techie (or company) who peddles the hopes of saving a business a lot of money by offering a solution with either inferior hardware and/or recommending an open source software solution.  By inferior hardware, I mean using hardware that does not suit a company’s needs.  In theory, a company ...

I installed the Google Desktop for Mac Beta a few weeks ago. My computer has dragged ever since… really dragged… there was lag switching between apps and windows - and even lag typing sometimes! It took me a while to confidently pin point Google Desktop as the culprit, but in ...

This post marks the beginning of a new daily trend here. Over the past several weeks I was posting “one-page” overviews of each section of my dissertation lit review. Now that I’ve begun fleshing out those sections, I have more material to post - complete with quotes and citations. I’ve ...

This company uses BlackBerries for remote e-mail and also allows remote e-mail access via the Web, reports a pilot fish working there. User call to help desk: Does my new BlackBerry have Internet access? Help desk tech: Yes, it does. User: Then can you set up a bookmark for the ...

A comment on a recent post on this blog invoked The Other in the context of UCT. It’s a concept about which many assumptions are made - who holds the centre, who is relegated to the margins - and, depending on one’s own positionality, perspectives differ. My own assumptions about ...

Oh, see, that’s not good. From our colleagues Down Under at Computerworld Australia: A French security researcher has revealed a flaw in the handling of Bitmap files within Adobe Systems Inc.’s Photoshop program that can lead to an exploit of a user’s system. According to the researcher, known as Marsu, a ...

Click here to listen/download 11:13). Jonathan Young, EarthLink’s VP of Security Software, Subscription and Services, talks about expanding anti-phishing protection services for its customers. We also hear from Diana Kelley, VP and Service Director, Burton Group, about the PCI Data Security Standard and how businesses are responding to this "cookbook" of ...

We’ve all suffered from lost time and lost connections because of false positives from necessary spam filters. Just this morning, board members of a non-profit I volunteer for were complaining to me that email to board members gets trapped as spam, and while working on this blog I nearly lost ...

I mentioned a new ONLamp feature in last week’s Linux Newsletter (and if you don’t get the newsletter, full of my sparkling wit and charm, as well as a summary of the articles and blogs for the week, why don’t you?). The ONLamp Ombudsman will work to resolve those ...

Less than nine months after SurfControl bought BlackSpider, it seems that Websense is buying SurfControl. Wow. Consolidation still rampant in the anti-spam market, eh? BlackSpider is an email- and Web-filtering service. Variously described as "managed", "hosted", "on demand", or "in the cloud", the service competes with the bigger fish such as MessageLabs, ...