Disguised as an Internet security bill, CISPA short-circuits the 4th amendment by allowing the government access to your private online data without a warrant. No due process, you know that thing our Founding Fathers wrote into the core DNA of America! The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) recently passed the U.S. House and is on the way to … [Read more...] about CISPA – Goodbye to Your 4th Amendment Rights if Passed
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Going Viral for Kicks
A YouTube video goes viral scoring a Norwegian kicker an NFL tryout. The moral of the story - if you have a talent, practice, film it, then post it on YouTube. You could get discovered. The video features 27-year-old Havard Rugland from Norway performing awesome tricks and kicks, which includes nailing 60-yard field goals and a precision kick hitting a football that is in … [Read more...] about Going Viral for Kicks
Uses For Google
I admit, Google is my spell check. I also use it to find pictures. I hear many people use Google for ego surfing. (You know you Google yourself.) The following graph is not scientific, but it shows that Google may be more of a utility than a search engine. What do you use Google for? … [Read more...] about Uses For Google
GoDaddy Outage – Lessons Learnerd
The GoDaddy outage on 9/10/2012 impacted millions of website and e-mailboxes. It last about 4 to 6 hours and by around 7PM EDT services began to come back online. The Twitter-sphere was on fire with rumors that the hacker group Anonymous was behind this outage. However, Twitter accounts associated with Anonymous say they are not to blame. And in the past Anonymous takes … [Read more...] about GoDaddy Outage – Lessons Learnerd
Browser Wars
Google Chrome has passed Internet Explorer (IE) to become the world's most popular Web browser. Chrome's share of the market rose to 32.8%, while Internet Explorer's share of the market dropped to 31.9%. Mozilla's Firefox is the third most popular browser with just more than a 25% of the market. Why is the web browser important? With the shift in focus toward the … [Read more...] about Browser Wars
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