It’s the closely printed (or displayed in very small font size at a Web page) pieces of text that most of us don’t bother to read before we agree to them. Yet it’s something that shouldn’t be ignored at all. It’s called terms of service, or TOS for short. http://www.cnet.com/8301-17914_1-10258081-89.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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It didn’t take very long – less than a week – for Microsoft Corp.’s Bing to surpass Yahoo Inc. to become the number two search engine in the U.S. and worldwide. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134020 Well isn’t that special.  I wonder who Microsoft could have sold their soul to.  Oh I don’t know.  Could it have been.  Satan.

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Why a new PatchFinder tool ? The old PatchFinder tool was a pet peeve of mine.  You needed to know at least the 6 digit base PatchID of the patch you were trying to find in order to find it.   Rather self defeating IMHO. The new PatchFinder tool directly leverages Sun’s internal Patch Metadata Web [...]

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Brian, a Cyber Specialist with Spy-Ops, told us: “Amateur hour has begun and we should prepare for the fallout.” http://www.csoonline.com/article/494306/Cyber_Conflict_The_Modern_Gold_Rush

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Want to know whether your company’s Web site is working hard or hardly working? A new Firefox extension can deliver the answer. http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/is_your_company.html

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Five years ago today, OSNews published some interesting articles. Apple announced it was dropping PPC for x86 (that one was a bombshell). That news was met with fear, excitement, and a fair bit of skepticism. Five years later, that decision has gone down as one of the smartest, gutsiest moves in computing business history. Congratulations [...]

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A long time spent up in near zero gravity will mean that humans will not have to make an effort to get off the couch. They won’t have to do anything to stay warm either. And no exercise means, well, blubber. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10258052-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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At this year’s E3 Expo in Los Angeles, both Sony and Microsoft pushed upcoming services and devices that allow users to download full games to their hardware. For Microsoft, it’s a new arm of its online marketplace that will let gamers download full retail games to their system’s hard drives. For Sony, it’s the new [...]

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For the contest, StrongWebmail gave the CEO’s e-mail address, his username and his password. But without his cell phone and its number, StrongWebmail believed the system was foolproof. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133983&source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2009-06-05 Umm, tell you what.  Why don’t you guys wait right here and I’ll go home and get the money and then I swear I’ll be right [...]

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Pricewert is a San Jose, Calif.-based Internet service provider that allegedly recruits, intentionally and actively participates in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10257588-83.html?tag=nl.e703

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