Yesterday, the Toronto Star had an excellent article about a new security threat introduced by, of all things, photocopy machines. It really makes no sense to have a strict security policy for your office computers, if the photocopier is down the hall passing out information to anyone who asks. These machines, like PBX equipment, need to be secured with the same care that the computers get.

I'm actually quite surprised I haven't seen a story like this before. According to a post on the Threat Level blog at Wired, a disgruntled former employee of Texas Auto Center, in Austin TX, managed to disable about 100 cars of the firm's customers, using a Web-based system that was intended to be a sort of electronic "Repo Man."

Frequent exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of renal cell carcinoma in men, according to a study published in the March 8th online edition of Cancer by a team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, MD.

Being happy is a choice, your choice. Only you can decide how you feel. You keep saying that others are "making" you act, feel, think, do; this just simply isn't true. You are the one with the power, you are the one with the choice to make about how to be or how to feel, act, or do.

As part of a settlement with the EU, on March 1 Microsoft introduced a "ballot screen" in Windows, which gives the user a choice of installing an alternative browser to IE. Microsoft's Browser "Ballot" Screen Microsoft has always maintained that there was no real need for this kind of mechanism, since users who wanted to use another browser could always download and install it. The BBC News has a report that, since the introduction of the ballot screen, downloads of the Opera browser have doubled, and that most of the download requests are coming from the new screen.

Last year a mutation in the HA gene of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus was identified in isolates from patients with severe disease. At the time I concluded that the emergence of this change was not a concern. Recently the Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported that the mutation, which causes a change from the amino acid aspartic acid to glycine at position 225 of the viral HA protein (D225G), has been identified in 11 of 61 cases (18%) of severe or fatal influenza, but not in any of 205 mild cases.

China has become the world’s largest exporter, the main workshop, the major laboratory, the key farm and the World’s Bank. It takes place in the concert of nations without respecting the rules of the game. So, must we be afraid of China? Is it not an unfair and premature conclusion?

Demonstrations of iPhone and iPod Touch applications for groups can be awkward. The AV cables sold by Apple for the iPhone and iPod Touch support TV out, for playing videos users have saved in iTunes and have available for playback via the iPod functionality of their device, but screensharing for other apps is NOT currently supported with these cables.

If you purchase a netbook computer, don't simply use the pre-installed operating system (OS) which came on it at the time of purchase. A wide variety of alternative operating systems are available which run great on new netbooks, and many of them are free.

The advent of digital encoding technologies has brought a revolution to the entertainment and media industries, and afforded a wealth of new media consumptive options for consumers. The landscape of consumer media options continues to be fraught with legal battles, however, in large part because of media conglomerates' desires to maintain control over the "intellectual property" they produce, license, and sell.

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