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Spam is in the eye of the beholder
Leader If all the stakeholders agree what is and what is not spam, it's much harder for those who don't agree with the code to legally affect those who do. If the majority defines what is just, then extremists — be they criminals or vigilantes — will find...
[October 12, 2006, 17:10]
Music-software firm pleads iTunes mismatch
News Musicmatch has sent emails to registered iPod users claiming an update, but really attempting to get the user to disable or remove iTunes," said Brandon Harder, an iPod owner in Seattle who was among those who received Musicmatch's email on Monday.
[November 4, 2003, 14:10]
Qt's Developer Days: the top 9 challenges for programmers in 2009 are...
Blog GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF OF MY IP: it is becoming increasingly difficult for any developer to create something new without touching IP already owned by somebody else, so in future it may become harder and harder to innovate.
[October 16, 2008, 7:27]
Hot Games Pack
Downloads As the board fills, the game gets harder and harder.Hot Xonix is a multilevel game in which you capture squares while avoiding a clever alien.Hunting is a logical game of Minesweeper style. Fall offer: Get 17 incredible games for just USD 14.95...
[November 22, 2009, 1:58]
Warp speed computing
Blog That's much, much harder. Inline on-the-fly code analysis is an order of magnitude harder, and that's before you get to the bit where you have to invent the logic that can replicate it, only faster. Processors are general purpose devices.
[October 21, 2007, 23:35]
Microsoft disconnects Intel pet project
News It's going to get harder and harder to ask, 'Why not FireWire? Microsoft's plans to leave out support for USB 2.0 in its next major release of Windows could bring it into conflict with one of its most important allies: Intel.
[April 18, 2001, 16:12]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News And now he's putting money into new ventures, and writing nothing beyond a column for Fortune, which "gets harder and harder.because I have to declare interests". You have to understand that California is eight hours behind.
[February 15, 1997, 7:00]
Two-factor authentication 'not the solution' to online fraud
News Raising the bar for attackers will give some respite from attacks and make fraud that much harder to do, he said. There are two strategies: You can make identities harder to steal, or you can make identities less useful.
[March 16, 2005, 7:45]
Yahoo security weakness revealed
News But those sites also use various safeguards that make resetting passwords much harder than Yahoo Personals does, he added. SPI Dynamics' Faust said: "I think the [internet] industry needs to start revising that and asking harder questions.
[December 21, 2005, 15:05]
Dell's customers wooed by IBM
News HP is a harder target than Dell, according to Haff. One of the biggest problems is dealing with the heat that processors throw off; systems that get too hot can produce errors or crash altogether, and the densely packed electronics of blades mean...
[August 11, 2003, 10:55]
Microsoft faces Office pricing dilemma
News Microsoft has also found that it's getting harder and harder to convince consumers and businesses that they need to upgrade their software, said Toni Duboise, an analyst for research firm ARS. Microsoft's decision to cut retail prices for some...
[May 29, 2003, 11:40]
Zombie networks implicated in ID theft
News Future botnets are likely to move to peer-to-peer communications, which are harder to intercept and shut down, Holz said. Moreover, there is a trend toward smaller numbers of bots in each network - a measure that makes the collection of compromised...
[March 15, 2005, 8:15]
Middle east cyberwar heats up
News Each side is going to fight harder and harder," he said. An online battle between Israeli and Palestinian vandals escalated this week with the theft and public posting of a database containing the personal information of 700 members of the American...
[November 6, 2000, 15:49]
Fedora Core 5 review
Reviews Of course you still have to install it, but (as with most Linux distros these days) that’s no harder than for Windows, and you don’t need any fancy hardware. Indeed, we found it no harder to configure or use than most other Linux distros -- either...
[March 24, 2006, 12:05]
Linux users could face European patent threat
News The difference is one of level and burden of proof, and effectively makes it harder to enforce the relevant patents," said Pearce. This would not prevent Microsoft from suing anyone — just make it a bit harder for them to win.
[September 19, 2007, 17:34]
Spam could soon be majority of email
News Spammers work harder Such technologies have made it harder for the Internet marketers to connect with unwilling customers, so they compensate by sending out more email. Businesses "are seeing an enormous increase in spam," said Enrique Salem, chief...
[August 29, 2002, 15:15]
Spammers target IM accounts
News IM services also typically offer a host of filtering options that can restrict messages to lists of pre-approved members, making it harder to pass through unsolicited messages. It shouldn't be harder in theory to spam over IM than email," said Alex...
[March 12, 2002, 12:37]
Has MSN's time come?
News The core product, Windows, became bigger and more complicated, and getting updated versions became harder to get out the door. The burden of that success, as the theory in the book goes, makes it harder to respond to the next generation of tech...
[September 23, 2005, 17:30]
Adobe must step up to the security plate
News Now, Flash and Reader are ubiquitous and it's harder and harder to target Microsoft, so the attackers are looking for easier targets. If you're a criminal and you want to break into a network, a common attack method is to exploit a hole in software...
[August 7, 2009, 16:03]
Sun-Microsoft agreement breeds anticipation of integration
News It's getting harder and harder with each passing year to explain to businesses why they should upgrade," said Rosoff, an analyst for research firm Directions on Microsoft. Last month's historic agreement between the two computing giants is most...
[May 11, 2004, 15:15]
