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According to Shacknews, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell claimed that a stealth encryption chip will “absolutely stop piracy of [PC] gameplay.” at Wedbush Morgan Securities conference.

“What that says is that in the games business we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world–which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords–which will allow for a huge market to develop in some of the areas where piracy has been a real problem.”

No more cheap game?

Twitter. A name no foreign in blogosphere. Everyone twitters lately. It’s approachable. Painless (in terms of paying the telco for the sms rate) and affordable.

Most of all, it become a fast and efficient tool to share and spread information. Imagine you caught up in awkward place and need help. Talking will seems to be obviously peril. Hence, sms still ended in one person mobile doesn’t help either if the guy is dropdead away.

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Came across an article in Guardian

Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice.

But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other borders, too. You might not like it, but it’s a fact. So how do you protect yourself?

It seems that nowadays more and more of the government are worried about the information leaking. It has become more crucial as compared to last time.
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Facebook might be compromising your privacy, if you have an account with it. It has been exposed by the BBC’s technology programme Click on the security flaw as reported by Spencer Kelly.

It is says that MySpace have far better security standard when it comes to protecting the users information.

Morally, Facebook has acted naively
Paul Docherty, Technical Director of Portcullis Security

Hence it reminds me of the story from Reader’s Digest on the identity theft.

BBC’s Click on Facebook

We have only had the phone for a few hours but we needed to get inside its casing, what follows is our dissection of the Apple iPhone. Please note that we’re doing this so you are not tempted to on your recent $500/$600 expenditure, while it is quite possible to take apart using easy to find tools we’d recommend against it as it will undoubtedly void your warranty and will most likely mar up

How does the iPhone packaging looks like?

How they dissect the iPhone

When I saw the release date of iPhone the other day over the Yahoo!News, I wanted to blog about it. Plan to get a hand of it but nonetheless, my dear friend Wingz already blogged about it under the title of iPhone on Sale date confirmed. Being a courteous, I decided not to follow suit with another post about the release date.

So with nothing on hand to generate sufficient traffic to my blog, I begin to search to counter Wingz for a particular post that can not only generate enough traffic here but to get more coverage for my ads from Nuffnang. After searching high and low, there’s only one thing that came into my mind. Something to get attention of the iPhone craze.

By chance and by luck, I manage to stumble upon a site - the technology site, Gizmodo where they posted OpenMoko’s Neo19735 that meant to replace iPhone. And it’s free too.
Here’s the link to the anti-iphone post. So what do you think? Can it replace the iPhone? Moreover, I read from somewhere that FDA not only wanted the phone just to be a phone but maybe detector as well. Example that I can think of as follow:-

• Smoke detector
• UV detector
• Fart detector
• Motion sensor
• Air particle sensor
• Sarcasm detector
• Hot Chick detector

I think the list can basically grow from there. Coz even today the phone also come with GPS too. There is no surprise if they really come up with it.

The OpenMoko Neo1973 linux-powered smartphone first crossed our radar last november. Then the iPhone came out and made us double-take on the device’s multi-touch screen, and coincidentally similar interface. Yesterday we sat down with the Neo1973, and learned more about its features, three-phase road map, pricing, and how open software collaborators will be compensated for their contributions. We also took a gallery full of pictures. Read on…

See it for yourself.

Finally, the distance future is not as far as we think it is. Sony have developed one that is so thin like of a size of a paper, the display of 2.5 inch was released last Friday.

Original link here

and the spider sense's tingling. Thanks to Google, we know that one out of ten web pages contains malicious code that can infect our computers. 

Installing itself without users' knowlegde, it can act as zombies or become spyware, spying through keylogging and etc. According to the news, most of it come from 3rd party - be it the widget or web traffic counter or those ads banners that pay you good amount of money.

But most important is that they using the vulnerabilities in the browser, Internet Explorer. Safe guard your PC. I know you need it. Just click here. 

However, I do concern if the themes, extension or even add-ons I had for my Firefox, does it comes from the reliable source? Are they free from any of those malicious code? What kind of assurance I will get from the Firefox team?  

Tags : Firefox, Internet Explorer, IE, Google, Malware, Spyware, Widget

After some time, I finally had made up my mind. The blogsphere has taken up much share of the commercial world. Too many blogs providing various and multiple information on products and technology. In most time, we don't know whether the information appeared to be true or false.

Undeniable that it has become part and parcel of the blogsphere to do something related to the commercial side of it. So am i. With the choices I have, I ended up with adsense and nothing but adsense. I used to dislike and avoiding PayPerPost. However, the time has come. Resistance is futile. This means that soon, once I getting the approval the PPP will come. Yes, indeed.  

While “ranters” are easy to detect and dismiss, bloggers with a bit of self-control can be very effective at spreading false information and even doing the bidding of hidden others.

My guess is that we’ll all have reason to “filter” what we read in blogs and perhaps my recent experiences will help you catch “the bad ones.”

The unofficially official blogger. Many companies offer their employees a public blogging platform often under the company domain name. The issue here is that you have a writer who appears to speak in the name of the company – even though said company has a “fine print” disclaimer saying “the opinions expressed here are their own…”

 

Taken from NetworkWorld

What the hell is this number appearing in technorati?  

Finally, I heard they say that it's a High Def DVD Decryption Code Controversy that caused the web uproar. The protection of the privacy and the legal impact.

But maybe I am noob, coz' I will have no use of the strings of number. But what makes it great is that the digg.com users were really furious and keep on digg-ing it

Among all reviews about the numbers, the best was from Download Squad 

 It’s the most circulated number of the week. Sixteen hexadecimal digits that unlock the wonder of most currently released HD-DVD titles from the surly clutches of the AACS revenue content protection system. Sixteen digits that have been posted in so many places — and in many cases, removed only to be reposted — that they’re hard to avoid.

Cory Doctorow’s class blog for his USC course, “Pwned: How everyone on campus is a copyright criminal” was served a DMCA takedown notice and, on the advice of counsel, removed the offending digits. They were posted to Wikipedia, then removed and locked from reposting. Then the diggstorm came. A slew of digg stories containing the forbidden digits have been posted, made the front page and been removed, only to start again.

Witness the modern equivalent of the 95 thesis’ Martin Luther nailed to the door of Wittenburg church. We, digital citizens —commonly referred to by the vulgar term of ‘consumers’ — have had enough of content lock-in. We’ve bought and re-bought entertainment media — repackaged and regurgitated digital vomitus — until we’re blue in the face. We’ve been told time and time again that DRM is for our own protection, and we’re finally and inconsolably fed up.

As Joe Rogan’s character on Newsradio once quite accurately quipped, “Dude, you can’t take something off the Internet… that’s like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.” The content providers have attempted to do exactly that, remove pee from the proverbial swimming pool that is the Internet and, as we’ve witnessed so many times before, they’ve failed miserably.

The bottom line remains, we as consumers, want our content free (as in Freedom) and if we don’t get it, we’ll take our content free (as in beer).

 

The metaphor used is truly blunt and I like the way they put the pieces together. Things spread really fast. Like fire in the wild bush. 

*I felt sick. I think I am sick. I need a hug and a bowl of tender loving care. Nah, make it a bucket before I kick the bucket. Enjoy your weekend guys! *