November 17, 2011

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    Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT

    http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lusj95n4iz1r1nx1qo1_500.png

    Aol, ebay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIN, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo, Zynga … are the good guys, in this battle …

    The BSA (Business Software Alliance lobby) are the bad guys…

    • Adobe
    • Apple
    • Autodesk
    • AVEVA
    • AVG
    • Bentley Systems
    • CA
    • Cadence Design Systems
    • CNC Software – Mastercam
    • Compuware
    • Corel
    • Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation
    • Dell
    • Intel
    • Intuit
    • Kaspersky
    • McAfee
    • Microsoft
    • Minitab
    • Progress Software
    • PTC
    • Quark
    • Quest
    • Rosetta Stone
    • Siemens PLM Software, Inc.
    • Sybase
    • Symantec
    • TechSmith
    • The MathWorks

    NOTE on SOPA from the GOOD GUYS:

    We support the bills’ stated goals—providing additional enforcement tools to combat foreign “rogue” websites that are dedicated to copyright infringement or counterfeiting. Unfortunately, the bills as drafted would expose law-abiding U.S. Internet and technology companies to new and uncertain liabilities, private rights of action, and technology mandates that would require monitoring of websites. We are concerned that these measures pose a serious risk to our industry’s continued track record of innovation and job creation, as well as to our nation’s cybersecurity. We cannot support these bills as written and ask that you consider more targeted ways to combat foreign “rogue” websites dedicated to copyright infringement and trademark counterfeiting, while preserving the innovation and dynamism that has made the Internet such an important driver of economic growth and job creation. [1]

    See also:
    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3249561

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    Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection

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    The great thing about web apps is that you can access all of your information on the go, and we’ve introduced ways to use Google Apps on a variety of devices like mobile phones and tablets. But it’s inevitable that you’ll occasionally find yourself in situations when you don’t have an Internet connection, like planes, trains and carpools. When we announced Chromebooks at Google I/O 2011, we talked about bringing offline access to our web apps, and now we’re taking our first steps in that direction. Gmail offline will be available today, and offline for Google Calendar and Google Docs will be rolling out over the next week, starting today.

    » via Google Gmail Blog

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    Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 Others

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    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.

    Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar, which was hacked in July, has never acknowledged the number of fraudulent certificates the hackers managed to obtain, nor identified the possible targets other than Google.

    But a Dutch security consultant told ComputerWorld this week that “about 200 certificates were generated by the attackers.”

    » via Wired

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  • The 7am effect?

    Many websites (blogs, etc…) have a spike early in the morning.  People are checking-in to begin their day online.  Some US national oriented sites often have a 7am spike.  Here is a tabulation of US population by time zone… probably helps explain the 7am effect…

    48 %  Eastern Standard Time (EST)

    29 %  Central Standard Time (CST)

    17 %  Pacific Standard Time (PST)

      6 %  Mountain Standard Time (MST)

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