http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/internet/ en-us Fri, 17 May 2013 20:24:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020794/posts IT GETS WORSE! The Obama IRS demanded that several Tea Party groups provide back-end access to their websites. From reliable sources: This happened to several Tea Party groups! The source has this in writing. It states they wanted access to everything the members had access to, which would be chats, email, contact information, etc. The group raised less than $600. She was targeted as early as October 2010.... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020794/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 20:24:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020550/posts SNIPPET: "U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports said the websites of Ansar al-Mujahidin, Shumukh al-Islam and Al Fida — all accredited as official outlets of the terrorist group once led by Osama bin Laden — were knocked off the Internet by cyberattacks in early May. Two of the sites — Ansar al-Mujahidin (as-ansar.com) and Shumukh al-Islam (shamikh1.info) — came back up Monday and Tuesday. The site Al Fida remains down." SNIPPET: "The disruptions are prompting many jihadists to shift from Web forums to Twitter for communications and propaganda messaging." WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Inside The Ring http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020550/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 09:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020475/posts U.S. officials charged an Uzbek citizen in Idaho with providing bomb-making knowledge and other support to an Islamist militant group, knowing that it would be used in an attack, authorities said on Thursday. Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, a national of Uzbekistan living legally in Idaho, was arrested in Boise and faces a three-count grand jury indictment in Idaho and a single-count indictment in Utah, prosecutors said. They said Kurbanov provided information and money to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The group supports establishing strict Islamic rule in Uzbekistan. Authorities said... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020475/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 01:19:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3020394/posts For years I have avoided using a proxy server but after some concern that someone who I don't trust has knowledge of my IP address I am considering using a proxy server to avoid issues like IP spoofing, computer hacking, transmission eavesdropping, etc. Can anyone recommend a few easy-to-use proxy servers (whether free or subscription) I may wish to consider? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3020394/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 21:51:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3020105/posts SNIPPET: "A genuinely inspiring issue of AQAP's flagship English language publication. This is what pages 1, 2, & 3 look like:" SNIPPET: "The remaining pages were rendered intentionally blank by person or persons unknown." Forum.Internet-Haganah.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3020105/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 09:59:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3019727/posts Mozilla is out with the Firefox 21 open source browser release today, fixing at least 8 security vulnerabilities, three of which are rated as being critical. The new release also provides new features that – depending on your viewpoint – could either improve or reduce user privacy.One of the new features in Firefox 21 is the Health Report. Mozilla first began talking about the health report in September of 2012 as a non-invasive reporting mechanism. The report is intended to deliver information to users about the 'health' of the browser and its components. The report also shares that data with... Datamation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3019727/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 13:49:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019120/posts Amid the controversy over Uncle Sam singling out politically conservative groups, Matt Drudge took to Twitter on Monday morning to offer his take. Linking the IRS scandal to President Obama‘s health care law, the Drudge Report creator foreshadowed civil war, an “American Holocaust,” and a “brave new president.” Recently, Sarah Palin, too, drew a connection between health care and the IRS, noting that the “same corrupt” agency “will be in charge of enforcing Obamacare.” Drudge weighed in thusly — including some interesting hypotheticals: (TWEETS AT LINK) Mediaite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019120/posts#comment Tue, 14 May 2013 08:15:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018951/posts Samsung on Sunday announced that it had developed a core component of its 5G network by solving a problem that has stymied the wireless industry, Yonhap News reported. Using the 28GHz waveband, Samsung says it has achieved download and upload speeds of tens of gigabits per second (Gbps). Current 4G LTE networks top out at around 75 megabits (Mbps). In practice, that speed would allow wireless users to download a full HD movie in seconds. Samsung executives see the technology enabling a wide range of rich applications. Samsung used 64 antenna elements in order to accomplish the high-speed data transfer,... Apple Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018951/posts#comment Mon, 13 May 2013 22:25:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018025/posts It was a brazen bank heist, but a 21st-century version in which the criminals never wore ski masks, threatened a teller or set foot in a vault. In two precision operations that involved people in more than two dozen countries acting in close coordination and with surgical precision, thieves stole $45 million from thousands of A.T.M.'s in a matter of hours. In New York City alone, the thieves responsible for A.T.M. withdrawals struck 2,904 machines over 10 hours starting on Feb. 19, withdrawing $2.4 million. The operation included sophisticated computer experts operating in the shadowy world of Internet hacking, manipulating... nytimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018025/posts#comment Fri, 10 May 2013 23:27:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017128/posts now the battle is joined. The Senate has passed, sending to The House, a bill that would impose a requirement that online merchants submit to state tax collection in states where they have no physical presence. To try to make this more palatable they are exempting businesses with less than $1 million in annual sales, but this doesn't matter when you get down to brass tacks. Amazon, WalMart and other large retailers with online presence are supporting this move. This sounds insane, but it in fact is not -- it is yet another attempt to destroy their competition using the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017128/posts#comment Wed, 8 May 2013 18:03:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3016859/posts Disgusted and fed up like the rest of us, Sarah Palin rips members of the Republican Party a new one over their support for the so-called “Marketplace Fairness Act” a sales tax on internet purchases. More new taxes? How can we be divided on new taxes? In this horribly weak economy with an over-reaching, over-spending, anti-small-business government continually making the wrong decisions, Republicans can’t even stay committed to “No New Taxes”? Please step away from your Washington, DC bubble and get back in touch with the hard working people who sent you there. Read the planks in our party’s platform... A Time For Choosing http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3016859/posts#comment Wed, 8 May 2013 00:11:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016822/posts Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that he likely couldn’t support the online sales tax bill that the Senate passed this week, underscoring the challenge that supporters face in getting the measure through the lower chamber. Boehner told Bloomberg Television that the Marketplace Fairness Act, which got 69 votes in the Senate on Monday, would heap a “big burden on some very small businesses.” "I just think that moving this bill where you have 50 different sales tax codes, it is a mess out there,” Boehner said. “You are going to make it much more difficult for online businesses to... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016822/posts#comment Tue, 7 May 2013 23:00:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3016792/posts While there have been no new military attacks on Syria since Sunday morning, something more peculiar happened in the past few hours, when according to Akamai and various other Internet traffic trackers, Syria has literally gone "dark", or, as Umbrella Security Labs describes it, as if "Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet." Some more from Umbrella's blog: At around 18:45 UTC OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet. The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria. Although Twitter remains relatively silent, the... Zero Hedge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3016792/posts#comment Tue, 7 May 2013 21:38:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016479/posts Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers One of the dreams for security experts is the creation of a quantum internet that allows perfectly secure communication based on the powerful laws of quantum mechanics.The basic idea here is that the act of measuring a quantum object, such as a photon, always changes it. So any attempt to eavesdrop on a quantum message cannot fail to leave telltale signs... MIT Technology Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016479/posts#comment Tue, 7 May 2013 01:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016444/posts The US Senate on Monday passed a bill aimed at ending tax-free shopping on the internet but the move looks set to face fierce opposition before it becomes law. The Marketplace Fairness Act, which has cross-party supporter and the backing of powerful retailers, would give states the power to require retailers with sales over $1m to collect state and local sales taxes for online purchases. The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016444/posts#comment Mon, 6 May 2013 23:31:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016280/posts Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, emerging as a leading voice of Capitol Hill conservatives, said Monday that it is “incomprehensible” that the Senate is close to passing a bill that would require booming Internet retailers to collect state sales taxes, warning that the move will kill jobs and hurt the economy. Mr. Cruz, a Texas Republican and tea party favorite, called the Internet a “thriving ecosystem” that has allowed new businesses to “compete in the national marketplace in ways that would have been impossible 15 years ago, and it empowers consumer choice.” “But tax-hungry politicians view the Internet as yet another... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3016280/posts#comment Mon, 6 May 2013 16:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3016025/posts When I mention online learning to my colleagues at Wesleyan University, most respond initially with skepticism. But based on my experience, I know that real learning can take place on the Web. I am currently teaching a massive online open course, or MOOC, on Coursera. Most MOOCs have great attrition, and mine is no exception: There were almost 30,000 students registered at the start, yet 4,000 remain active as we near the end of the semester. Unlike most MOOCs, which focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, mine is a classic humanities course. "The Modern and the Postmodern" starts off... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3016025/posts#comment Sun, 5 May 2013 18:46:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3015439/posts About a year ago, Miller was convinced that the Internet was making him unproductive, and even corrupting his soul. So at 11:59 p.m. on April 30, 2012, Miller unplugged his Ethernet cable, turned off his Wi-Fi, and replaced his smartphone with a "dumb phone." Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3015439/posts#comment Fri, 3 May 2013 19:27:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015423/posts Speaking at a gathering of digital advertisers in New York City last night, Mr Schmidt refused to forecast when internet video would displace television, instead declaring: "That's already happened." "It's not a replacement for something that we know," he added. "It's a new thing that we have to think about, to program, to curate and build new platforms." YouTube recently surpassed the milestone of a billion unique users a month. Only the Google search engine and social network Facebook are frequented more often by those browsing the internet worldwide. However, the video site lags behind traditional television in the UK,... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3015423/posts#comment Fri, 3 May 2013 18:33:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3015371/posts The World Wide Web consortium is considering a proposal to specify standards for HTML extensions to implement Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). The proposal is supported by Netflix, Microsoft, Google and the BBC. HTML was initially designed to describe the semantics of text and give control to the browser over how to present it. Since it became common for companies to have web sites, they have steered the development of HTML towards precise control over what the user sees and the behavior of the page -- arguably going in the wrong direction, but not an injustice ... until now. Of course, the W3C... Free Software Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3015371/posts#comment Fri, 3 May 2013 16:14:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3015040/posts Hotmail addresses may live on, but the service we once knew as Hotmail is no more, now that Microsoft has transferred all 300 million active Hotmail accounts to its new, modernized Outlook.com webmail offering. "We want to give a huge 'Thank you' to all of you who have supported Hotmail over the years, for some of you, that's going back as far as 1996," Microsoft's Dick Craddock eulogized in a blog post on Thursday. "It has been an amazing journey and we've been honored to provide you with a great mail experience for many years." Redmond first began signing up... The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3015040/posts#comment Thu, 2 May 2013 20:28:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014542/posts Justice Department agreed to issue "2511 letters" immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act, according to new documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on portions of networks operated by AT&T and other Internet service providers, a practice that might otherwise be illegal under federal wiretapping laws. The secret legal authorization from the Justice Department originally applied to a cybersecurity pilot project in which the military monitored defense contractors' Internet links. Since then, however, the program has... CNET http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014542/posts#comment Wed, 1 May 2013 17:27:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014503/posts On April 25, Spanish police, at the request of Holland's national prosecutor's office, arrested Dutch citizen Sven Olaf Kamphuis. Kamphuis will likely face charges in Holland related to what Dutch officials describe as the most extensive criminal cyberattacks in the history of the Internet. The attacks, which occurred in mid-March, overwhelmed the website of Spamhaus, a European nonprofit organization that tracks computer viruses (malware) and spam (unwanted email). Spamhaus had blacklisted Kamphuis' Internet company, CyberBunker. Spamhaus alleged that CyberBunker provided hosting services for spammers. The attacks (distributed denial of service, DDOS attacks) not only denied Internet users access to the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014503/posts#comment Wed, 1 May 2013 16:00:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014429/posts The internet is the most recent, best equalizer for small businesses hoping to make it a business world that requires millions in facilities, start-up, advertising, and delivery. That is why the following letter caught my attention regarding the proposed, new online sales tax. It is such a great, concise summary of the wrong-headedness of the internet sales tax. The great businesses spawned by the advent of the internet, the googles, facebooks, and amazons, are now huge. But the smaller businesses and potential start-ups are the real story. Please read the following letter and, if it mirrors your sentiment, strongly consider... Freeper Editorial http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014429/posts#comment Wed, 1 May 2013 12:54:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3013821/posts There is a bill working it’s way through the Senate that will tax internet sales transactions. President Obama has said he endorses the bill to raise taxes and will sign it. Before being “for” or “against” the bill using heuristics from your personal beliefs or talking points from the competing factions, it’s important to know what a government tax is. Put simply, it’s a hurdle or roadblock. If you want less of something, tax it. Taxes make marketplaces less efficient. Taxes are also a limit to personal freedom. Some see taxes as a revenue generator for government. But, governments can’t... Points and Figures (blog) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3013821/posts#comment Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:00:46 GMT