By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Break out the bubbly: Spam is celebrating its 30th anniversary this weekend. And my oh my, three decades later, how the annoyances of the internet have changed. Where it all started The message considered the first unsolicited mass e-mail went out to unsuspecting inboxes on May 3, 1978. A […]
By Mark O’Neill
Boing Boing has highlighted an interesting page on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website which talks about a recent court ruling – United States v. Arnold – which essentially allows US border guards to search your laptop or other digital devices without legal restraint if you try to enter the United States.
This has got a lot of civil liberties groups up in arms (or as South Park likes to put it, “rabble! rabble! rabble!”), as obviously the contents of your laptop are private. You could have sensitive business information on there. For example, what if you’re a lawyer and you have confidential client information that you can’t reveal to a third party? Or on a personal level, perhaps embarrassing stuff like kinky porn which technically may be legal under the US constitution to own and look at but obviously you don’t want a border guard finding it on your computer? You might even have something REALLY downright embarrassing and reputation destroying like some Britney Spears music from iTunes.
So are there any legal ways or crafty dodges to get around this obvious violation to your privacy and civil liberties? Plus is this court ruling right? Could it be open to an appeal?
Before going any further, I want you guys to listen to the following video. I personally think that we should not let young kids play these games, and that’s exactly why there is an age rating on them. But once someone is old enough to make the difference between “right” and “wrong” and that their […]
Anti-virus products from large corporations are becoming so bloated. With features like backup solutions, password managers, anti-phishing, anti-spam, and application scanning firewalls, products that were intended to protect your system only tends to bog down it down. Even as a security professional, I would prefer to not run an Anti-Virus product that is all-encompassing like […]
By Lyle Bateman Contributing Writer, [GAS] On May 1st, 1964, in the early morning, the world’s first BASIC compiler began to run. The “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code” was designed to sit on the opposite end of the programming spectrum from the more complex, scientifically based languages of the time, such as Fortran. It really […]
By Mark O’Neill Not content with torturing us with Tom Cruise bouncing up and down on Oprah’s couch and also lecturing us on what manic depression is REALLY about (thanks Tom for giving me the “truth” about my illness), the Church of Scientology has apparently decided it now needs a bigger platform and so it […]
The Neocube is an interesting little device that can keep your mind busy for hours of non-thinking fun. It is composed of 216 individual high-energy neodymium magnets, which can be formed into BILLIONS of shapes and patterns. Check it out in the following video. [Via TechEBlog]
Just a few days before the official Iron Man movie release date: here’s a clip that will show you how Tony Stark gets his Mark III suit on. Enjoy!