http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/internet/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:13:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050967/posts Media sources such as CNN, and also several questionable academics have come out with a multi-pronged attack on John McCain's knowledge of the "Information Economy" this week. Amongst those is a media professor from American University named Steinhorn Comments By L. Steinhorn, Prof of Communications Steinhorn claims that McCain's funny syllogism of "A Google", his desire to avoid email, and lack of a MySpace webpage prove that McCain does not understand the Information Economy. He points to Barrack Obama's use of YouTube and MySpace to win over young voters as proof that he understands modern economics. This is false on... My Space Blogs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050967/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:13:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050932/posts MacDailyNews reader Chad reports having received an email from Yahoo! that the Yahoo! Music Store will be closing. Here it is verbatim: The Yahoo! Music Store Will Be Closing; Important Information About Backing Up Your Music Files Greetings, The Yahoo! Music Store, along with the ability to purchase and download single songs and albums, will no longer be available as of September 30, 2008. Songs and albums that were purchased through the Yahoo! Music Unlimited Store are protected by a digital rights management system that requires a valid license key before they can be played on your computer. After the... Mac Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050932/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:43:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050839/posts Excerpt - SAN FRANCISCO (AFP)--Internet security researchers warned Thursday that hackers have caught on to a "critical" flaw that lets them control traffic on the Internet. ~ snip ~ "We are in a lot of trouble," said IOActive security specialist Dan Kaminsky, who stumbled upon the Domain Name System (DNS) vulnerability about six months ago and reached out to industry giants to collaborate on a solution. "This attack is very good. This attack is being weaponized out in the field. Everyone needs to patch, please. This is a big deal." ~ snip ~ Agence France-Presse (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050839/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:05:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050760/posts (Intel is a sponsor of SVW)Intel announced plans for a new business group manufacturing system-on-a-chip (SOC) semiconductors. SOCs are souped-up microprocessors that are tuned for specific types of devices, such as mobile internet devices, smart phones, or medical devices.Intel's SOC chips combine a microprocessor with memory, graphics, and embedded software plus specialized chip and software functions.SOCs can shrink almost an entire board of chips into just one or two chips. This makes digital products more reliable and less expensive to make.Intel predicts that within a few years there will likely be billions of digital devices connected to the Internet. Most... Silicon Valley Watcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2050760/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:59:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050385/posts WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda allies running terror camps for tots on the Afghan-Pakistan border are using video of a boy “martyred” in combat to recruit jihadis. The apparently lifeless body of the child, an Uzbek boy younger than 11, is the focus of the grisly half-hour video by the Islamic Jihad Union — a radical Uzbek group practically indistinguishable from Osama Bin Laden’s network, according to U.S. officials. "In a fierce battle in Waziristan between the soldiers of Allah and the friends of Satan, Abd al-Rahim was wounded by an arrow," says an Uzbek narrator, referring to a bullet or... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050385/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050305/posts I'm sure by now we are all aware of the Netroots Nation conference that happened in Austin, Texas last weekend. Well, did you know that without Al Gore it wouldn't have happened? That's right, since Al Gore invented the Internet... I know, I know, that is the old Al Gore joke where he famously claimed that he invented the World Wide Web. Everyone knows that AL Gore had little to do with the Internet, of course. But at least one person, obviously one rather easy to bamboozle, still thinks Al Gore did invent the Internet. In fact she thinks he... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050305/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:00:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049654/posts I approached the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas, last week thinking in generational terms. I felt old at 52 as I imagined joining this conference of over 2,000 progressive bloggers and blog-watchers as one of its older and least technologically competent attendees. Certainly, my sessions made it wonderfully clear that there is a powerful force in American political and cultural life coming from the generation 10 to 30 years younger than I. But the movement of progressive bloggers is quite diverse. Both genders. All ages. More white than not, but people of color involved in all events, and sessions... Capital Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049654/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:56:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049237/posts The Austin American-Statesman caved to pressure from the Daily Kos-Netroots Nation and pulled an article from the newspaper's website that poked fun at the liberal convention being held in Austin last weekend.The article, entitled Gore's Surprise Visit Highlights Netroots Conference was published on the front page of Sunday's paper.It was written by feature writer, Patrick Beach--meaning the article was not a straight news piece (think Dana Milbank.)Greg Mitchell, a writer for Editor & Publisher who blogs at the Daily Kos attended the conference as a panel speaker.He brought attention to the article by posting about it the Daily Kos. Mitchell... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049237/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:49:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049222/posts Since Barack Obama is on an historic trip to the Middle East and Europe, John McCain is struggling to get some media attention this week. His campaign brainstormed for weeks, desperately trying to match the drama and spectacle of the upcoming Obama rally at the Victory Gate in Berlin.In a daring bid to wrench attention from his Democratic rival in the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) today embarked on an historic first-ever visit to the Internet. Given that the Arizona Republican had never logged onto the Internet before, advisors acknowledged that his first visit to the World Wide... Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049222/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:37:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049153/posts The advance of the computer/electronics revolution and the Internet can be looked at in terms of five main visions. Some of these are rather extreme scenarios that will come to pass only if the natural defenses of more traditional outlooks, acting in concert with representative democracy, cease to operate. Still, they are potential hazards that bear watching as we proceed. Corporate Net: Huge conglomerates like Time-Warner, Disney, DreamWorks, and Microsoft have all the resources to offer the most acclaimed kinds of Net products. According to this view, the Internet will become another vehicle to increase the social and cultural dominance... Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049153/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:02:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048631/posts Senator Obama has some explaining to do: what does he mean by saying that he would end the war in Iraq? Whereas some aspects of the war seem to indicate that America is at war with itself as the Iraq debate rages in a charged partisan atmosphere, yet it is often the case that wars usually involve more than one side. So who is America at war with in Iraq? And is the enemy willing to end the war, and under what conditions? Then there is another existential conundrum that Mr. Obama needs to contend with: how does one go... The New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048631/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:14:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047355/posts The national Internet service providers, AT&T and AOL, signed an agreement with state government to eliminate child pornography from the Internet, announced the office of state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, New York, on Thursday. As part of the agreement signed with Cuomo, the two Internet access providers agreed to work towards eliminating certain newsgroups that distribute child pornography online. A similar agreement was signed with Verizon Communications, Time Warner (News - Alert) Cable, and Sprint Nextel on June 10, 2008. The decision on making the service providers sign the agreement came after Cuomo’s office identified 88 different newsgroups that contained... Communigate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047355/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047324/posts What is the ages old misconstruction of Shakespeare? "First kill all the lawyers." Well, one might excuse bloggers if they might wish to add the officers of the courts to that death sentence, at least if the experience of the bloggers at New York's "Room 8" blog are concerned. For Ben Smith and his fellow "Room 8" bloggers, the world got a bit topsy-turvey not long ago when he was served with a grand jury subpoena by state prosecutors demanding that the identities of anonymous posters on his website be revealed. Worse, the court wouldn't inform Mr. Smith exactly why... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047324/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:44:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047182/posts Imagine if the current crop of public figures had grown up during the Facebook era. We might have photos of John McCain in Florida slurping body shots off his stripper girlfriend. Barack Obama rolling a joint on a beach in Hawaii. George W. Bush passed out at a Yale frat party, 40-ounce beer bottles duct-taped to his hands. Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Wellesley peace rally, locking lips with her husband's future secretary of Labor, Robert Reich. It's one thing to hear that your elected representative had a wild time in college. It's entirely different to have pictorial proof. Would... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047182/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:36:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047079/posts The politicos' mutual stalking has reached unprecedented new levels this year: At least one side has started to spider the other's campaign website to track that campaign pages' precise word changes up to an hourly basis. John McCain's campaign published a side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama's Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new automated online tracking service called Versionista. The service, which launched two months ago, allows users to track and cache changes to specific web pages up to an hourly basis, depending on the level of filtering requested, says Peter Bray, its creator in Portland, Oregon.... wired.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047079/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:28:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046823/posts As Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) pursuit of Internet portal Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) drags on, Wall Street analysts are increasingly speculating the software giant may be focusing on a Plan B: Tying up with internet service provider AOL. The speculation was revived on Wednesday when The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft executives met with representatives of Time Warner Inc. (TWX), AOL's parent company, to discuss a possible union. Microsoft has reportedly been in informal discussions in recent months to explore an AOL deal, which the Redmond, Wash.-based company sees as a potential way to boost its Internet presence. The talks come against... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046823/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:15:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2046596/posts A man whose shirt proclaims him as the "world's greatest dad" has been arrested on charges he tried to use the internet to arrange a sexual encounter with a minor. wxyz.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2046596/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:15:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045804/posts It’s time for Republicans to get serious about the online revolution before it’s too late. While the Democrats keep extending their political reach into cyberspace, too many in our party keep pretending the Internet will go away. Like a predator approaching an ostrich with its head in the sand, the Internet will not disappear. In fact, the Internet is quickly consuming many aspects of our lives, including how we engage with the political world. To ensure our party’s future, Republicans must start to navigate this intersection of technology and politics as deftly as the Democrats have.... As Republicans, we must... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045804/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:50:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2044866/posts Sanctuary is the first Web-based (non-televised) science fiction series. Starring Amanda Tapping (who is also an executive producer) and Robin Dunne, the show is billed on the official website as "The first broadcast caliber sci-fi series developed specifically for the Internet. . . ." Sanctuary uses state-of-the-art computer-aided graphic design for the majority of its scenes. The premise of the show is one of science meeting the supernatural, as Dr. Helen Magnus (Amanda Tapping), who is well over 150 years old yet appearing only 35, seeks out and gives protection for (or in some cases, from) various creatures whom have... Sci Fi http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2044866/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:55:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044822/posts Hughs: Rumor mill fueled by Internet stories By Ina Hughs (Contact) Friday, July 11, 2008 Think about the Swift Boat campaign and what it did to John Kerry in 2004 and what rumors of a secret love child did to John McCain's bid for the White House in 2000. As a kid, we used to play a game called "gossip." We'd sit in a circle, and someone would whisper a sentence into the ear of the person next to her; that person would then whisper what she heard to the person next to her - and so on. By the... KnoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044822/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:02:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042522/posts Radical web of Islam's Terror …Since Sept. 11, 2001, the threat confronting the West has changed dramatically. The enemy today is not a product of poverty, ignorance or religious brainwashing. They often do not even adhere to the most austere and dogmatic tenets of radical Islam…Today's new generation of terrorists constitutes the third wave of radicals stirred to battle by the ideology of global jihad.   The first wave to join al-Qaeda was composed of Afghan Arabs who came to Pakistan and Afghanistan to fight the Soviets in the 1980s. They were, contrary to popular belief, largely well educated and from... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042522/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:40:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044586/posts A software update for the Windows operating system has left hundreds and thousands of computer users unable to access the internet. The update, known as a "patch", conflicts with another piece of software, the Zone Alarms firewall, that many people use to protect their computers from hackers and viruses. The patch, codenamed MS08-037, was designed to fix a security loophole in the way Windows handles website addresses. It was discovered that there was a weakness with the operating system that could allow hackers to re-route legitimate web pages to malicious websites instead, and leave internet users open to fraud... telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044586/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:16:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S.... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043174/posts DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda Yemeni wing called in an Internet posting on Wednesday for kidnappings of tourists in the Arab country to press for the release of jailed militants. "It is a duty that detainees be freed through any rough way such as kidnapping tourists, who are numerous, or through various other ways," an article in the e-magazine of al Qaeda in the South of the Arabian Peninsula read. The group said it was pained some militants "had turned themselves in voluntarily to the ruling regime to improve their situation", in an apparent reference to a Yemeni-American thought... Reuters India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043174/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:31:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043272/posts Computer industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that would let hackers control traffic on the World Wide Web. Major software and hardware makers worked in secret for months to create a software "patch" released on Tuesday to repair the problem, which is in the way computers are routed to web page addresses. "It's a very fundamental issue with how the entire addressing scheme of the Internet works," ... "You'd have the Internet, but it wouldn't be the Internet you expect. (Hackers) would control everything." The flaw would be a boon for "phishing"... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043272/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:52:41 GMT