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On March the 8th the FBI will bring down DNS servers. Internet problems expected!

2012/02/25 6:30 pm1 Comment

If you can’t access the Internet around March 8th, the FBI could be to blame. On this date, a number of domain name servers are due to be taken down, making all computers that use them net-less. Before you go get upset about this, or even worried, there’s a pretty legitimate justification here; the action is being taken in order to deal with a scourge called the DNSChanger Trojan, which modifies an infected computer’s DNS settings to direct traffic to some rather unsavory sites.

 

via FBI to Take Down a Chunk of Internet on March 8 | Geekosystem.

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Webshops fail on Facebook! Read more…

2012/02/20 9:59 pmLeave a Comment

The companies GameStop, JC Penney, Nordstrom and Gap have all opened stores within Facebook, to which then closing again. The merchants gained against all expectations not high sales. Sources explain that for the opposite Bloomberg sell better to a successful e-commerce website, then Facebook as a platform to choose.

“We were not simply the return that we needed the Facebook market, so we had to quickly close. For us, Facebook was a way to negotiate deals with customers, not a place to sell something, “said Ashley Sheetz GameStop about the failed Facebook shop opposite Bloomberg.

Facebook was until recently seen as a perfect location for her shop 845 million members. But Rita Malpuru Sucha, an analyst at Forrester Research, now has his doubts. “It was like trying to sell people something while they were hanging with friends at the bar,” says Malpuru looking back.

Source: http://nieuws.nl.msn.com/economie/webwinkels-floppen-op-facebook

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How can it be that we can read this without problems..Why yuor barin can raed tihs !

2012/02/09 10:40 pm1 Comment

You might not realize it, but your brain is a code-cracking machine.

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S1M1L4RLY, Y0UR M1ND 15 R34D1NG 7H15 4U70M471C4LLY W17H0U7 3V3N 7H1NK1NG 4B0U7 17.

Passages like these have been bouncing around the Internet for years. But how do we read them? And what do our incredibly low standards for what’s legible say about the way our brains work?

Read more in this article. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46331160/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TzQ71l3kr2w

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Thanks for using those hard to read Captchas!

2012/02/03 6:22 pmLeave a Comment

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Did u know that when u are inserting those hard to read captchas on webforms and other sites, u are also Digitizing books.

A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

About 200 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that’s not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into “reading” books.

via What is reCAPTCHA?.

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Overclock your Intel Processor until it Dies..and get a new one!

2012/01/19 11:47 pmLeave a Comment

Intel has a security plan to get your processor replaced after Overclocking Failure!

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Performance Tuning Protection Plan by Intel®

The Performance Tuning Protection Plan being offered by Intel is a chance for you to experiment with the overclocking features of your processor without the worries of what will happen if you push the procesor too far. The Plan allows you a single processor replacement, hassle-free, from our customer support. This is in addtion to your standard 3 year warranty. In other words, if it fails under normal usage, we will replace it under the standard warranty; if it fails while running outside of Intel’s specifications, we will replace it under the Performance Tuning Protection Plan.

So what we are saying is this: Go ahead and push it, we’ve got your back.

via Tuning Plan.

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