Category: Computer
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Cyber-crime – the growing threat
“It’s growing so quickly that we’ve got to run to stand still” – that is the sobering assessment of the battle against cyber-crime from Steven Wilson head of Europol’s cyber-crime centre.via BBC.com
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ROT
Took the following out of some IT vendor’s email that I got:ROT – redundant, outdated and trivial data – routinely clogs servers making it hard to distinguish the good data from the bad without a little help.I really like it, it goes right with bitrot, something that I see all the time.
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A Visit from Old St. Geek
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a hard drive was whirring, nor clicking of mouse;The PC’s were unplugged from the network with care,In hopes that a new version soon would be there;The users were safe at home in their beds,While screenshots of a new interface danced in their heads;And the sys…
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How many Apple Watches?
A year ago today, 2014-12-08, the Motley Fool predicted that Apple could sell between 22.6 to 30 million Apple Watches. How did Tim and company do? As I’m writing this on 2014-12-08, I think that they will be closer to the 30 million number than 22.6.
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Sounds like the educational benefits are pretty obvious
This netadmin pilot fish working for a school district gets a help desk ticket from a library assistant, who complains that a wireless handheld device she uses won’t work.“I went down to the library to see what was going on,” says fish. “They had factory reset the device, and then they took out the manual…
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Coders
Coders are essentially linguists who translate human language into a foreign programming language suitable for an unforgiving machine to process.Stephen Nichols via TechCrunch