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	Dying Jobs kept letter from Gates at his bedside Shortly before Steve Jobs died in October, he received a letter from longtime business adversary Bill Gates that moved him so much that he kept it by his bedside, according to the Apple founder's widow, as relayed by Gates to a British interviewer. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: CloudPassage CloudPassage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing sectors. However, cloud providers usage agreements make the user responsible for protecting servers, applications and data. CloudPassage Halo is the award winning cloud server security platform that has everything you need to secure your cloud servers. Get Free Halo Basic Today! In this Issue 2012's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries Just one more: 'S**t programmers say' Tracking-notification bill unlikely to gain traction Court affirms felony conviction of Palin e-mail snoop DMARC anti-phishing effort raises question about typo scammers Facebook IPO filing seen coming as early as next week Techmeme demonstrates proper use of the word 'indisputably' Diving deeper into that 9-0 Supreme Court vote on GPS Website fixes 'missed connections,' engenders envy FBI seeking help to monitor social media Prying government eyes hurting U.S. cloud services: EFF WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Case Study – Constangy Learn how to consolidate and virtualize many different servers, and eliminate the expense and difficulty of remotely managing the hardware and software. Read now! 2012's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries A look back at the most memorable events and products from 1987 Read More Just one more: 'S**t programmers say' Yes, this "S**t (fill in the blank) say" meme is getting tiresome, but I actually laughed at the end of this video, so I can't resist sharing. (Warning: NSFW language.) My apologies if you didn't find it funny. Read More Tracking-notification bill unlikely to gain traction U.S. Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts yesterday announced a bill to require that consumers be told when their phones carry tracking software, an idea that would appear so commonsensical and presumably non-controversial that it would sail through Congress like a resolution proclaiming this Super Bowl Appreciation Week. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Best Practices for Implementing 2048-bit SSL Ready for 2048-bit SSL? Not with F5. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 2x faster 2048-bit SSL performance. Download the Citrix and Verisign 2048-bit Performance Kit. Learn More Court affirms felony conviction of Palin e-mail snoop A federal court has rejected the appeal of a felony conviction filed by a Tennessee man who in 2008 guessed his way into a Yahoo email account owned by Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who was then running for vice president. Read More DMARC anti-phishing effort raises question about typo scammers There's essentially nothing but goodness in this latest anti-phishing effort -- called DMARC -- by the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Paypal and Bank of America. The idea is to increase public confidence in email received from household-name domains and others by preventing spoofed email from reaching customers at all. Read More Facebook IPO filing seen coming as early as next week News reports are reverberating around the Internet at the moment indicating that Facebook's filing for a long-anticipated initial public stock offering could come as early as next week. The Wall Street Journal says: Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE/VMware Q&A with Desktop Virtualization Expert As CVD technology matures, it will become increasingly applicable to greater parts of organizations and a greater breadth of industry verticals beyond the typical healthcare, finance, government, and education verticals that dominate the CVD market today. Learn More Techmeme demonstrates proper use of the word 'indisputably' The popular technology news aggregation site Techmeme has a new look today, and while it is a marked improvement, I probably wouldn't bother calling attention to it if not for the headline on the blog post announcing the change. Take a look: Now "indisputably" is a word that I would use only with great caution, if at all, because we live in a time where someone will inevitably dispute that today is... Read More Diving deeper into that 9-0 Supreme Court vote on GPS Longtime Buzzblog reader George Grenley writes to call our attention to a pair of posts on the SCOTUSblog (Supreme Court of the United States Blog) that analyze this week's unanimous GPS-related ruling and find a lot less agreement - as well as more concern for the future of privacy rights - than the 9-0 vote would indicate. Read More Website fixes 'missed connections,' engenders envy How many times have you been seated in an airplane next to an attractive member of the opposite sex - or same, if you're so inclined -- and the two of you trip the flight fantastic to such an extent that romance seems inevitable ... if only before departing the arrival gate you had remembered to exchange contact information? Dreams don't count. Read More FBI seeking help to monitor social media So the FBI is in the market for a technology partner that will allow it to monitor social networks? You mean they're not doing this already? From a report on New Scientist: Read More Prying government eyes hurting U.S. cloud services: EFF A blog post from the Electronic Frontier Foundation makes the case that the United States is jeopardizing its position in the worldwide cloud-computing market by failing to provide the kinds of privacy assurances demanded by international laws. Moreover, the authors contend that U.S. officials are speaking out of both sides of their mouths on the issue. From the post: Read More
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