Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Hate Web Ads? We Might Have Some Answers For You

If you are like me, you hate to have your Web browsing interrupted by stupid advertisements. Well some possible answers to that conundrum may just be at hand.  Check out the two stories below.

Also, advance study on the Stuxnet Worm reveals that both Israel and the U.S. collaborated on this attack of the Iranian nuclear program.  Is this the start of a new kind of warfare?  Stay tuned…JRC

Stuxnet: Cyber attack on Iran 'was carried out by Western powers and Israel'

The Stuxnet computer virus, created to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, was the result of collaboration between at least one Western power and the Israeli secret service, a British cyber security expert has found. Tom Parker, a US-based security researcher who specializes in tracing cyber attacks, has spent months analyzing the Stuxnet code and has found evidence that the virus was created by two separate organizations.

Windows 7 and SSDs: just how fast are they?

Does a solid-state drive make a difference in the performance of Windows 7? In a word: Yes. Conventional hard disks are typically the biggest bottleneck in any computing environment. If you can speed up disk activity, especially reads, the effects on system startup and application launch times can be breathtaking.

Top 10 inkjet multifunction printers

These printers start at around $100 and combine a printer, scanner, copier and (sometimes) a fax machine.

Mozilla offers do-not-track tool to thwart ads

Mozilla, acting on a U.S. Federal Trade Commission proposal, has offered a detailed mechanism by which Firefox and other Web browsers could prevent Web pages from tracking people's online behavior for advertising

Google's Chrome browser gets do-not-track feature

Google just released a new extension for its Chrome browser that will make it easier to avoid ads on the Web.

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