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I’m glad to see that MD is catching up with the times.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Kids can be cruel, and some parents say it’s time for Maryland law to address cyber bullying.
Police protection from cyber harassment in Maryland is limited to e-mail.
Under House bill 580, that protection would expand to any electronic communication, including social networking [...]

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Facebook backs down, reverses on user information policy
CNN.com

(CNN) — Under fire from tens of thousands of users, the social networking site Facebook said early Wednesday it is reverting to its old policy on user information — for now.
The site posted a brief message on users’ home pages that said it was returning to its previous [...]

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In Pictures: 12 Cheap Ways To Watch TV
Forbes.com
Wait! Don’t toss out your beautiful flat panel display–even if there are a plethora of ways to enjoy your favorite shows without a TV. What you can kick is your $30 a month (or more) cable subscription and digital video recorders. With the tanking economy, why spend a [...]

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Downandup/Conficker worm infects 9 million PCs
Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:33AM EST
Judging from the complaints and questions filling my inbox, Windows security looks like it’s already on track for its worst year this decade. The latest attack is a worm called Downandup, Downadup, Kido!, or Conficker (all the same thing), and it primarily seems to be [...]

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Switcher’s lament: The case against Mac
CNETcom

Think moving from a Windows PC to a Mac is easy? My experience, and my wife’s, may encourage you to think differently. Here’s the story:
When my latest Thinkpad began to get unreasonably slow, as Windows laptops often do after a year or so of use, I thought it’d be a [...]

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Virus Targets Popular Internet Explorer Browsers
MSNBC
An anti-virus company is warning the public about a security hole in the Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser.
Officials at Trend Micro say a security hole in Explorer could allow hackers to take over your computer by tricking you into visiting tainted Web sites. Officials at Trend say as many as [...]

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Oleg Teterin, Russian Entrepreneur, Trademarks An Emoticon
Huffington Post

MOSCOW — How much would you pay for a ? A Russian businessman has trademarked the emoticon _ or combination of punctuation marks _ used to convey a wink in text messages and e-mail.
Oleg Teterin, president of the mobile ad company Superfone, said Thursday he doesn’t plan [...]

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On December 9th, 1968, Douglas Engelbart presented a 90-minute live public demonstration at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA which featured all of the following:

The mouse
WYSIWYG  – “What you see is what you get”, referencing the way data looks on screen and the way it will look if printed.
Slides – ala Powerpoint
text [...]

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How ignorant somebody must be to fall for these spams offering money but asking for social security numbers and credit card numbers.  I just don’t understand why there is so much spam because it doesn’t make sense to me that the spam is actually WORKING.  But it must be.
Anyway, this dude responded to and toyed [...]

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Apple Says You Need Anti-Virus For Your Mac
PCMag.com
Thanks to Brian Krebs of the Washington Post for pointing out a recently published Apple Technical Note that encourages Mac users to get antivirus software:
Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole [...]

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It’s obvious that with the internet, and all this new fangled electronic stuff, that law has still been slow to catch up.
Why else would a judge even THINK about throwing out this case?  It’s obvious that her intent was to emotionally harm this poor girl.  Well, I would say she succeeded.
If the judge does throw [...]

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A British engineer has invented a fan-powered flying car – and to prove the Skycar works, he’s off to Africa in it

Richard Fleury

To Timbuktu by flying car: it sounds the most unlikely journey on earth; a sci-fi voyage from the pages of Jules Verne. But this is no [...]

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It’s time for the Hardy-Barlett household to look around at our cell phone options.  I don’t want Derek Zoolander’s teeny-tiny phone.  I like a phone with a little heft.  I actually upgraded a smidge early because my phone was on the fritz and got the LG-eNV.  Already they aren’t selling the type I got.  Anyway [...]

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Elgan: Why netbooks will soon cost $99
Mike Elgan | Computerworld
October 31, 2008 (Computerworld)  Subnotebooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-Note will soon cost as little as $99. The catch? You’ll need to commit to a two-year mobile broadband contract. The low cost will come courtesy of [...]

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