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Cyber-crime – the growing threat

“It’s growing so quickly that we’ve got to run to stand still” – that is the sobering assessment of the battle against cyber-crime from Steven Wilson head of Europol’s cyber-crime centre.via BBC.com
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ROT

Took the following out of some IT vendor’s email that I got:ROT – redundant, outdated and trivial data – routinely clogs servers making it hard to distinguish the good data from the bad without a […]
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A Visit from Old St. Geek

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a hard drive was whirring, nor clicking of mouse;The PC’s were unplugged from the network with care,In hopes that a new version soon would be […]
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How many Apple Watches?

A year ago today, 2014-12-08, the Motley Fool predicted that Apple could sell between 22.6 to 30 million Apple Watches. How did Tim and company do?  As I’m writing this on 2014-12-08, I think that […]
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Coders

Coders are essentially linguists who translate human language into a foreign programming language suitable for an unforgiving machine to process.Stephen Nichols via TechCrunch