Daily Internet Digest

People who go on blind-dates sometimes have to lie about certain details about them to get their dates to like them. Internet socializing is just the same, it’s even hard to prove because you can’t see the person, maybe just with a picture and that’s it. People in the internet can lie about their age and even the gender. Some people will just do about anything to get your attention and hook up with it. Internet socializing sites are one of the best things these days, but warn the kids with extreme caution; you are not separating them from the computer until their 30, just advising them what’s right or wrong.

They may not have experienced growing up with the internet and the dangers it may bring, but similar events may happen to their kids even if it’s on the internet. Online chatting is one, be afraid when topics get into sex or physical details. It’s hard to warn the kids when it gets too late, and since they are curious (since they are growing up), they just might engage in it. So if you are a parent, it’s good if you talk these sensitive topics to your kids. In addition, there have been popular social networks that just about anybody can join; all you need is an email account.

Looks can be deceiving they say. Talk to a person on a street, later on he/she is being paid to get information from you (possible, it can happen). Looking at a person can deceive, what more someone you are talking to that you can’t see? Since kids have been more into the internet than the wiser ones, their curiosity explores the wide world of the web: internet. When will they know when and what they are doing is bad for them? That is why we have the wise people, to help the kids and teach them and keep them out of trouble based on their experience.

Carrie in the Sex and the City movie looked silly when she was in need for a phone to call her fiancé, and one of her friends hand her their iPhone, she just returned it admitted that she doesn’t know how to use it. Another scene there was when she was hiring an assistant, she ended up hiring someone who has a degree in Computer Science, and added a comment that she couldn’t even text message. They say that some older people are technically challenged, and the youth are tinkering with programming codes easy as pie. But one thing kids today can’t dig up on a search engine, experience.

From online mapping technology to the latest venture of Google to help homeowners monitor the amount of electricity they use with PowerMeter, the company has been on the forefront of internet technology for a long long time. The much anticipated and now praised Google maps has become a very useful tool for most people who want to see the world as it is and for what it is. Available to the public, it allows people to learn more about the world through maps loaded with all the information they need. They added the ability to see paces of interest with street-view that is possible with extensive mapping and scanning technology that lets you stand in front of the place you were interested in. Continue Reading »

The case of the Pirate Bay people who were convicted and found guilty of violating several copyright and intellectual property rights issues has seemingly ended with their conviction, sending them straight to the slammer, end of story. We hoped it was but it seems these guys have a trick or two up their sleeves in their appeal process where they seek to overturn charges levied against them by seeking an impartial judge to preside in their affairs. Their lawyers argue that the previous judge that handled the case was quite biased from the start and that they were found guilty even before the process started.
The Pirate Bay is one of the longest and largest FTP file sharing sites the world over that has damaged the film, music and other industries where intellectual property rights were violated hundreds if not thousands of times every day. Continue Reading »

China has long been identified as one of the leading sources of hackers and malware the world over along with Russia and many other countries. Their aims may be for economic and other means yet the country itself is falling victim to it’s generation of computer savvy youth’s armed with the know how and cheaper technology coming in from the West to do more damage it now fears itself from home-based hackers. There have been publicized cases of hackers being caught and prosecuted but the government is taking more steps to prevent such incidents happening from within its borders. Continue Reading »

Copyright your content by licensing it under a Creative Commons license.

This protect your content from being plagiarized by lazy people who are incapable of producing their own content. Licensing your work protects your hard work from being used and abused by other people – sometimes even for profit.

The Creative Commons website has a number of different licenses (which you can get for free) you can use depending how you want your work to be used (or not at all). These licenses are also recognized by courts of law, so you can seek prosecution or fining of plagiarists if you so desire.

A number sites like the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation also offer licenses, but these are more geared towards software and code.

Mainly because of the free-ranging quality of the web where hyou may get one source but risk missing several others making it an exercise in futility. Most measures to control content and software have been quite effective till the internet became so far reaching the policing efforts have simply become too costly. There have been major success stories with major piracy hubs being closed down for a couple of hours till they got the system back up again. The ability of these hackers to move from place to place is quite frustrating for law enforcement for they can lose these people in the blink of an eye. Even some for the best Information Technology security systems are having a hard time to cope with the ever growing threats that are on the internet.
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It’s a good thing that a lot of people are learning more and more on how not to click on possible malicious sites, but numbers show that there are still people who do:

The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.

“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”

Hopefully the number goes down even further next year due to additional internet knowledge and ensure that internet security goes higher.

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