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Blocking TCP Requests On An Ethernet Network For Bandwidth Control
White Papers There are companies that want their professionals to use the Internet to increase their productivity, and these companies look at doing it by blocking some sites that are obviously very unproductive. Network administrators and higher level people...
[April 28, 2006, 0:00]
Blocking System Calls In KRoC/Linux
White Papers This paper describes an extension to Kent Retargetable occam Compiler (KRoC), which enables the execution of a blocking call, without blocking the occam-kernel. Blocking calls are implemented using Linux clones which communicate using shared memory...
[April 18, 2007, 0:00]
The Blocker Tag: Selective Blocking Of RFID Tags For Consumer Privacy
White Papers selective blocking? This paper proposes the use of ? by ? blocker tags? as a way of protecting consumers from unwanted scanning of RFID tags attached to items they may be carrying or wearing. While an ordinary RFID tag is a simple, cheap (e.g.five...
[June 17, 2004, 0:00]
SQL Server Contention Diagnosing And Resolving Blocking Problems
White Papers This paper focuses on blocking problems, and not deadlocks. Blocking occurs when one user locks the data resources that another user wants to read or modify. Deadlocks occur when User A locks the data resources that User B wants to access, and User...
[October 25, 2005, 0:00]
NY Times Blocking Of British Readers Raises Questions
Talkback Like Myles said, blocking like the NY Times did will only stop the uninformed. The real message here is that there are still big hotshots out there that still believe that technology will allow them the control they invision while in reality it's...
[September 1, 2006, 23:05]
A Sensitivity Analysis Of The Effect Of The Blocking Factor On The Performance In The LS-DYNA Vehicle Crash Simulation Program
White Papers LS-DYNA, a popular crash simulation code developed by Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), provides a tunable parameter known as the blocking factor, which can be used to improve the performance of LS-DYNA on IBM's POWER4 based...
[September 28, 2004, 0:00]
Online Ad-blocking Attacked
Talkback As nobody is forcing me to use ad-blocking, which I use, it is quite OK. And if ad-blockin was inpossible then I would never read the ads anyway.
[June 23, 2005, 11:27]
Next Generation Application-Level Behavior Blocking: The Key To Staying A Step Ahead Of The Next Unknown Attack
White Papers Utilizing its breakthrough and patented Application-Level Behavior Blocking technology, Finjan offers the ONLY proactive content security solution that effectively combats and protects against new, unknown attacks driven by Active Content.
[May 4, 2005, 0:00]
Yahoo! Charged With Blocking Rivals
News So why are some of the business-to-business (B2B) and vertical-content sites playing unfairly by blocking access to their competitors' content and cutting exclusive deals? Dotcoms claim the Internet pie is big enough for all comers to get a piece.
[March 1, 2000, 14:36]
Soft Blocking: Flexible Blocker Tags On The Cheap
White Papers This paper proposes a variant on the blocker concept that is call soft blocking. A ? blocker? tag is a form of privacy-enhancing radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. It operates by interfering with the protocol in which a reader communicates...
[June 17, 2004, 0:00]
Firefox Improves Pop-up Ad Blocking
News The Mozilla Foundation has developed a beta patch for the Firefox browser that it claims improves the blocking of pop-up ads. The popular open source browser already contains a pop-up blocker by default, but this does not handle pop-ups launched by...
[April 4, 2005, 17:40]
An Overview Of Spam Blocking Techniques
White Papers Because spam is constantly changing, the most effective spam blocking solutions contain a variety of techniques to help ensure that all spam, and only spam, is blocked. This white paper is an overview of the spam blocking techniques that you need...
[October 29, 2007, 23:00]
VeriSign Launches Spam-blocking Service
News For blocking malicious mail, the service deploys three antivirus engines. VeriSign has announced a new email-security service designed to stop viruses and spam. The service uses custom blacklists, fingerprinting and heuristic tools, which calculate...
[June 29, 2004, 16:20]
Telco Censured For Blocking VoIP
News A North Carolina telecommunications company accused of deliberately blocking Internet phone traffic has reached a deal with federal regulators to halt the controversial practice. The Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday that Madison...
[March 4, 2005, 9:15]
Rogue Detection And Blocking
White Papers This paper presents an overview of rogue devices, commonly used techniques in detecting and blocking rogues, comparison of various tools available in the market, and how WiFi Manager does the job cost effectively.
[June 13, 2006, 0:00]
NY Times Blocking Of British Readers Raises Questions
Talkback Blocking it made me interested enough to find and read it. The full text is on the 'cryptome' website. Nothing particularly startling. I guess it's a reasonable compromise to have it available but not 'too availble' - this enusres that anyone who...
[August 31, 2006, 10:09]
Analytical Model For Evaluating Blocking In GSM Networks With Directed Retry
White Papers This paper presents an analytical model and propose an efficient algorithm for evaluating call blocking in GSM networks with directed retry, where a call blocked by the sector of its initial attempt may be redirected to one or more alternative...
[November 17, 2005, 23:00]
Spam-blocking Service Lets Good Mail Pass
News A start-up is offering a Web-based email service that aims to stop spam dead in its tracks without blocking potentially useful emails. But what makes ZoEmail different, according to the company, is that it can block unwanted email without blocking...
[February 6, 2004, 9:35]
Detection And Blocking Techniques For Combating Spam
White Papers This article explains how combining spam detection and blocking techniques, content filtering, and various analysis methods, it is possible to identify sources of incoming spam and also prevent spam from going out.
[May 16, 2007, 0:00]
Finjan Plans Applet Blocking Dominance
News Finjan's technology for inspecting and blocking malicious ActiveX and Java applets is quickly becoming a standard with Cisco recently joining Finjan's Java Security Alliance (JSA) and saying it will integrate Finjan code in its firewall product line.
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