Mac Security Is '10 Years Behind Microsoft'
The CEO of Kaspersky Labs isn't going to make any friends in Cupertino saying stuff like this.
"They will understand very soon that they have the same problems Microsoft had 10 or 12 years ago," Kaspersky said in an interview. "They will have to make changes in terms of the cycle of updates and so on and will be forced to invest more into their security audits for the software."
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Video Games Help You Get Laid
How do I know that video games can help you get laid? Because Lou Ferrigno told me so in this awesomely bizarre video. The more you Ferrigknow!
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White House Threatens Veto of Cybersecurity Bill
More political posturing or do you think the administration will really veto this bill if it makes it to the president's desk?
The administration complained that the House bill, which has bipartisan support, would allow sharing of information with the government without requiring industry and the government to minimize and protect personal information. The statement said that if the bill were presented to the president in its current form, his senior advisers would recommend a veto.
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Scoop Poop For Free Wi-Fi?
Would you scoop poop for free WiFi? I can see how this would be abused (rocks / trash) but they really should make something like this.
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Google Cracking Down On Search 'Over-Optimization'
Google says it is cracking down on webspam by using natural male enhancement, payday loans, free iPads, bad credit loans, fast cash, sex tapes, nude Scarlett Johansson, lottery winnings and quitting smoking in three easy steps.
The opposite of "white hat" SEO is something called "black hat webspam" (we say "webspam" to distinguish it from email spam). In the pursuit of higher rankings or traffic, a few sites use techniques that don't benefit users, where the intent is to look for shortcuts or loopholes that would rank pages higher than they deserve to be to be ranked. We see all sorts of webspam techniques every day, from keyword stuffing to link schemes that attempt to propel sites higher in rankings.
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All-You-Can-Play Classic Arcade Games & Pinball Meet-Up
If spending the evening playing over 200 classic arcade games and pinball sounds like fun to you, the gang from WSGF have an event for you! If you live in the Houston area, clear your schedule on May 4th and head on down to the Joystix Arcade at 9pm for some "all you can play" gaming action. Hit the link for all the details!
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1 in 10 Used Hard Drives Contain Personal Information
According to this article, eleven percent of the hard drives used in this study were owned by people that have never read the [H]. The rest of you know how we erase hard drives.
A total of 200 hard drives bought from Internet auction sites and trade fairs were examined, and the results are quite shocking. 11 percent were found to contain personal information belonging to the previous owner, while another 37 percent had what is described as "non-personal" information. Only 38 percent of the drives had been properly wiped, while a further 14 percent were damaged and unreadable.
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ASUS Shatters Performance Barriers
ASUS continues its industry lead in performance, superior design, quality and ease of use with its latest Intel® Z77™ chipset based motherboards. ASUS is excited to announce our Z77 line of motherboards has reached new performance heights. These include reaching the 7GHz clock speed threshold on the ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE motherboard, as well as five new world records on the ROG Maximus V GENE, with more to come. These new records all showcase the benefits of ASUS' superior engineering and design, use of the finest materials and components, and industry leading user-friendly DIY features.
ASUS' internal overclocking group and performance team are excited to reach a 7GHz CPU clock frequency on the P8Z77-V DELUXE, using a 3rd generation Intel® Core™ i7-3770K processor with 16GB of DDR3 clocked at 2800MHz. Employing LN2 cooling, they were able to push the new processor to the limit and beyond, demonstrating the performance tuning abilities of ASUS Z77-based motherboards.
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Higher Frames Per Second = Bad
And all these years we've been thinking that higher FPS is better.
"The Hobbit" is possibly one of the first movies to be filmed in 48fps, or double the framerate of tradition theatrical releases. According to a Facebook entry by its director Peter Jackson, the switch promises significantly higher clarity and smoothness, especially when it comes to fast movements and panning shots.
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AMD Catalyst 12.4 Drivers Now Available
AMD has just released AMD Catalyst 12.4 drivers for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Linux platforms. Grab them if you need them! Here are a few of the featured highlights:
Windows XP support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
In addition to Windows 7 and Windows Vista support, Catalyst 12.4 now also introduces Windows XP (64-bit/32-bit) support for the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing: Level of Detail (LOD) Image Quality enhancements:
Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
LOD Image quality enhancements for Super Sample Anti-Aliasing and Adaptive Anti-Aliasing through the AMD Catalyst™ Control Center for DirectX® 10 and DirectX® 11 applications.
Applications must support in game Anti-Aliasing for the feature to work (Forced on Anti-Aliasing through the Catalyst Control Center is not supported for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications)
Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA): Significant performance enhancements:
Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series, AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series, and AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series
MLAA now operates up to 80% faster than previous versions
Texture filtering quality improvements:
Supported on the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800, and AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series
Improvements have been made to the texture filtering algorithm (for both DirectX9 and DirectX10/DirectX11 applications) to increase the quality of rendered textures, with no impact to performance
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