Anti-Spyware Bill Gets One Step Closer
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Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools
Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools
06/05/2005 11:14 PMSecure Resolutions desktop security (Resolution Antivirus™)
automatically detects and eliminates all types of viruses, worms,
Trojans Horses, dialers, hoaxes, jokes, and hacking tools within a
managed desktop security solution. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]
Anti-Spyware Bill Is Back
Anti-Spyware Bill Is Back
01/06/2005 02:38 PMAs was widely expected, Mary Bono has
reintro
duced her anti-spyware bill to Congress, where it's expected to
get approval (as it did last year, before being shut down in the
Senate). Clearly, some thought has gone into the bill, and it's not
as bad as some previously proposed anti-spyware laws. However, you
still have to wonder if it will really help. There will be provisions
in the bill that are likely to have unintended consequences, causing
problems for some software products. Meanwhile, the nastiest spyware
products will remain controlled by criminals who don't care about the
law because they don't expect to get caught. I don't think it's the
worst thing in the world, but any law should have a provision to keep
an eye out for negative unintended consequences and have a way to fix
those quickly. There should also be a way to monitor whether or not
this actually has an impact. Otherwise, it's just going to get voted
into law without any balances to make sure it doesn't do any harm,
because who wants to vote in favor of spyware?
House Panel OKs Anti-Spyware Bill
House Panel OKs Anti-Spyware Bill
06/17/2004 02:46 PMInternet News Jun 17 2004 7:22PM GMT
Anti-Spyware Bill up for Vote in
Congress
Anti-Spyware Bill up for Vote in
Congress
09/22/2004 08:33 PMAnti-spyware bill heads for House
Anti-spyware bill heads for House
06/24/2004 03:05 PMMeasure to keep an eye on spyware takes a step closer to becoming law.
Tech industry groups aren't too happy.
Congress Debates Anti-Spyware Bill
Congress Debates Anti-Spyware Bill
04/16/2005 02:44 PMSenate to Decide on Anti-Spyware Bill
Senate to Decide on Anti-Spyware Bill
09/22/2004 06:33 PMAnti-spyware legislation that prohibits companies from installing
software on a computer without user consent has been approved by the
U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. Dubbed the Spy Block Act, the bill now
moves to the full Senate where it will likely be voted on before the
end of the year. The Spy Block Act requires software to provide an
uninstall option, as well as outlaws any software that transmits user
information without explicit approval.
US anti-spyware bill clears another
hurdle
US anti-spyware bill clears another
hurdle
06/25/2004 07:06 AMZDNet UK Jun 25 2004 11:23AM GMT
No One Likes California's Anti-Spyware
Bill
No One Likes California's Anti-Spyware
Bill
09/16/2004 09:18 PMIt looks like almost no one is happy with the proposed anti-spyware
legislation in California. Companies aren't happy with it because
they're afraid it may ban perfectly reasonable applications, while
privac
y groups say it's worse than no law at all since it's way too
narrowly focused. Of course, it sounds like this narrow focus is
making some of the companies that originally opposed the bill now view
it in a more favorable light.
Anti-Spyware Bill Advances in Congress
Anti-Spyware Bill Advances in Congress
06/24/2004 04:46 PMAnti-Spyware Bill Advances in Congress
(Reuters)
Anti-Spyware Bill Advances in Congress
(Reuters)
06/24/2004 11:29 AMReuters - A U.S. congressional committee on
Thursday approved a bill designed to crack down on deceptive
"spyware" that hides in users' computers and secretly monitors
their activities.
Anti-Spyware bill moves forward despite
doubts
Anti-Spyware bill moves forward despite
doubts
06/24/2004 10:44 PMThe anti-spyware bill we reported on last week dubbed the Safeguard
Against Privacy Invasions Act (Spy Act, for short) has picked up
steam, clearing the committee in the House this morning with a 45-4
vote.
Congress Wants Anti-Spyware Bill, No
Matter What The Details Are
Congress Wants Anti-Spyware Bill, No
Matter What The Details Are
07/19/2004 01:16 PMDeclan McCullough is looking at one of the anti-spyware bills that's
rocketing its way
through Congress so that politicians can tell their constituents
that they "banned spyware" in time for the November elections.
Unfortunately, like with the CAN SPAM Act, the bill they're pushing
could possibly make the problem worse, not better. Even more annoying
is that it sounds as though a much better anti-spyware bill has been
introduced by others -- but politicians have no time to actually look
at which one is better, since they need to rush this bill through
before they all run home to campaign for the election. Politics at
work.
Anti-spyware bill lacks teeth;
Schwarzenegger should veto it
Anti-spyware bill lacks teeth;
Schwarzenegger should veto it
09/22/2004 09:51 AMSiliconValley.com Sep 22 2004 1:14PM GMT
One Step Closer
One Step Closer
03/11/2003 01:23 AMThe Outside Reading section there to your right has been updated to
use the latest version of my RSS
parser. It seems to be working fine, let me know if you notice any
problems.
If things go well I should have time tomorrow after work to right
some documentation for the new version, and then release it for
download. Some features:
- Fully Object-Oriented
- Supports parsing of RSS files stored on the server.
- Lets you export all parsed results to an external file, so the
parser doesn't have to get called everytime someone calls the page.
You could have a cron job call the parser every X amount of minutes to
reduce server load.
- Cleaning and easier outputting of parsed feeds.
- Designed with forward compatibility in mind (it will be easily
adaptable to take advantage of PHP 5's OOP improvements).
- Retrieve results in either an associate array or as an
object.
- Cleaner error checking. Also the error checking is much easier
to adapt to your own logging scheme, such as to a database.
One Step Closer To Teleportation
One Step Closer To Teleportation
06/17/2004 05:16 AMNearly three years ago, we wrote about
breakth
roughs in atomic entanglement that could lead to advancements in
quantum computing and teleportation. It seems that much of that
research has continued as two separate groups of researchers have now
used entanglement to
successfu
lly teleport the quantum state of an atom. As the article points
out, the fact that two separate research groups came up with similar
results (using slightly different methods) is particularly promising.
It is amusing, though, to note that just about every article
discussing atomic teleportation feels the need to explain that this is
nothing like Star Trek style teleportation.
Robotsapien One Step Closer
Robotsapien One Step Closer
06/04/2004 10:32 AMDave Hrynkiw says:
"Just got word from our favourite roboticist, Mark
Tilden. Looks like the Robosapien is live on
store shelves...in
the UK and parts of
USA, anyways. I can't get ahold of the Canadian distribution channel
yet." Dave also provided a link to the latest version of the
official Robosapien
website. Don't forget you can also order these things from
Amazon.com
at a
slight discount. Amazon doesn't show the robot as in stock yet but is
taking pre-orders. And don't miss our previous article on Robosapiens
which degenerated into a discussion of chiggers and Egyptian surveying
techniques.
Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware
Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware
08/05/2004 03:50 AMIt appears that Yahoo heard the backlash loud and clear a few months
back when they released an anti-spyware tool that
just so
happened to skip over adware from Yahoo partners. The latest
version, built on PestPatrol's technology will now
default to
notifying users of both "spyware" and what they consider to be
"adware" and then give the user the choice of what to do. I
haven't tested the product yet, but it sounds like they're moving in
the right direction. It still makes you wonder what they were
thinking in offering a purposely crippled offering. People know what
spyware is, and telling them that spyware isn't spyware doesn't change
how people feel about it. It also doesn't make them look kindly back
at the company that provided them with the bogus anti-spyware tool in
the first place.
Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners
Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners
06/02/2004 10:10 AMWe didn't write about Yahoo's new "anti-spyware" toolbar that they
announced last week, because it seemed to receive plenty of hype, and
there were no real reviews of how it worked. There are so many
so-called anti-spyware applications out there that
don't
actually stop spyware and adware for fear of upsetting marketing
companies or out of worries that actually stopping spyware may make
some applications stop working (upsetting the user), that we figured
Yahoo's anti-spyware app (hype and all) probably wouldn't be much to
bother with. It certainly looks like that may be the case. eWeek is
now reporting that Yahoo tries to dance the careful dance of not
upsetting certain companies who
threate
n to sue people who call their application spyware. Of course,
the situation is even more complex because Claria (who you probably
know as Gator - despite their attempt to
change
their name to shake that spyware label) is also a partner of
Yahoo. So, it's really not surprising that
the default
setting for Yahoo's anti-spyware app won't actually remove services
like Gator or WhenU. Instead, Yahoo's spyware remover claims
these programs are "adware" and will only remove them if you click and
extra check box
each time you run the program. In other words,
once again, you can't trust a provider of anti-spyware software,
because they're playing both sides of the fence: partnering with
providers on the one hand, and then offering weak removal products on
the other. If Yahoo were serious about removing spyware from the
computers of users they would refuse to partner with companies that
used surreptitious tactics to be installed on computers. Instead,
they want to look good to users in the front, while letting in
spyware/adware from partners through the backdoor.
Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law
Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law
04/13/2004 03:42 PMOne step closer to Podcasting
Proliferation!
One step closer to Podcasting
Proliferation!
01/03/2005 02:47 PMNo I am not talking as someone had suggested of my plan to take
over the world of podcasting, but about a new product that is trying
to find a investor to get it from prototype to production. The so
called iRoamer is basically a Internet Ready portable Radio.
My thought has always been that it will not be long before my car
stereo either comes with built in WiFi were I can push my Podcast to
the car from the house or carry a memory stick to the car when I walk
out the door.
My thoughts on the ultimate vision of Podcasting is that as you
download the shows you are subscribed to the software that does this
will automatically load it on your portable media device, your car in
the driveway, obviously your laptop and maybe even push it to your
computer at work. Hopefully the player software will be smart enough
to tag were you stopped listening and update that placeholder on other
devices your syncing to. [iRoamer]
Discovery One Step Closer to Launch
Discovery One Step Closer to Launch
03/31/2005 12:15 AMSci-Tech Today Mar 31 2005 4:07AM GMT
One Step Closer To Wearable Displays
One Step Closer To Wearable Displays
05/07/2004 05:44 PMPeople have been talking about display technology embedded in a pair
of glasses for years, and it's looking like
they may not be that far away. Microdisplay
companies are doing good business building mini-screens for digital
cameras and mobile phones, but the idea of wearable heads-up displays
is where they expect the big money to come from. They're already
being used in military and medical environments, but they're moving
one step down the latter to industrial uses as well. From there, it's
not that much farther to go for more general purposes. Right now,
most of the heads-up displays are still bulky and ugly (though, not
nearly as bulky as they were a few years ago), but the companies
clearly realize where this is headed, and are working hard to make
glasses with embedded displays that are both functional and "cool"
looking. Combined with a phone or a personal mobile gateway device,
and you could have full internet access all the time. As someone in
the article points out, at that point, what we use internet access for
may change in completely unexpected ways.
Google Moves a Step Closer to IPO
Google Moves a Step Closer to IPO
01/27/2004 09:13 AMGoogle dotting the legal i's and lining up the troops for the big
anticipated IPO as soon as April.
'Artificial life' comes step closer
'Artificial life' comes step closer
12/19/2004 03:03 PMResearchers at Rockefeller University make small synthetic vesicles
that resemble a crude kind of biological cell.
Google float a step closer
Google float a step closer
04/26/2004 04:58 AMCNN Apr 26 2004 9:32AM GMT
Electronic paper moves a step closer
Electronic paper moves a step closer
04/23/2004 01:48 PMvnunet.com Apr 23 2004 4:41PM GMT
Star Trek replicator one step closer
Star Trek replicator one step closer
03/19/2005 03:16 AMInfomaticsonline.co.uk - Fri Mar 18, 12:47 pm GMT
Online archive moves step closer
Online archive moves step closer
04/13/2005 12:04 PMFree net access to thousands of radio and TV clips moves a step closer
with the launch of the Creative Archive Licence.
One step closer to PHP5 - PHP 4.3.6RC1
released!
One step closer to PHP5 - PHP 4.3.6RC1
released!
04/09/2004 04:02 PMIn the spirit of release early, release often here is the first and
hopefully the final release candidate of PHP 4.3.6. Download it now!
Another step closer to PHP5 - PHP
4.3.5RC2 now released!
Another step closer to PHP5 - PHP
4.3.5RC2 now released!
02/10/2004 02:42 AMPHP 4.3.5RC2 has been released for testing! This is likely to be the
last release candidate prior to the final release, so please test it
as much as possible.
NASA's Discovery One Step Closer to
Launch
NASA's Discovery One Step Closer to
Launch
03/31/2005 12:15 AMSci-Tech Today Mar 31 2005 4:23AM GMT
One step closer to PHP5 - PHP 4.3.4RC1
now released!
One step closer to PHP5 - PHP 4.3.4RC1
now released!
10/28/2003 11:06 PMPHP 4.3.4RC1 has been released for testing. This release focuses on
stability through bug fixes. It is recommended to test it as much as
possible on real-life applications in case there are any issues.
Completely secure networks get one step
closer
Completely secure networks get one step
closer
07/25/2004 09:06 AMBBC Online Archive Moves Step Closer
BBC Online Archive Moves Step Closer
04/14/2005 10:24 AM"Free internet access to thousands of clips from public service radio
and TV programmes is a step closer after the launch of the Creative
Archive Licence."
A Step Closer to Unified Storage
Management
A Step Closer to Unified Storage
Management
04/13/2005 10:55 PMInternet News Apr 14 2005 3:14AM GMT
Mich. Internet Voting Moves Step Closer
Mich. Internet Voting Moves Step Closer
10/31/2003 07:27 PMSan Jose Mercury News Oct 31 2003 6:49PM ET
Netflix Moves One Step Closer To
Downloadable Movies
Netflix Moves One Step Closer To
Downloadable Movies
09/22/2004 11:55 AMWhile Netflix and Tivo still haven't confirmed their
rumored
relationship, Netflix is still pushing forward with getting the
other pieces in place for any kind of downloadable video-on-demand
offering. They've now
signed a deal with Warner
Brothers to test movie downloads. Of course, this also
demonstrates some of the hassle Netflix has to go through to build
such a service. They need to go to each and every studio and convince
them that (no, really) if they let Netflix help them offer video on
demand it will let them rent more movies, and it won't mean the end of
the movie industry because some kid figures out how to break whatever
copy protection scheme they agree to use.
Mich. Internet voting moves step closer
Mich. Internet voting moves step closer
10/31/2003 10:39 PMAP via Seattle Post Intelligencer Oct 31 2003 9:20PM ET
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