The phantom menace?
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Is cyberterrorism a phantom menace?
Is cyberterrorism a phantom menace?
11/11/2003 04:30 PMGartner's information security and risk research director dismisses
cyberterrorism as a "theory."
The Phantom Controller Menace
The Phantom Controller Menace
05/13/2004 05:03 PMJANE PINCKARD -- The Phantom is officially on display at E3 - as
discussed earlier this week on Gizmodo. As reported, it will have no
external ports. That means no piracy, people! Arrr! Rumors of this
platform were thought to be a hoax at first ... because wouldn't you
have...
Phantom Console Makes Phantom Appearance
At CES... Sort Of...
Phantom Console Makes Phantom Appearance
At CES... Sort Of...
01/09/2004 09:50 PMEarlier this year we had a few articles about the mysterious Phantom
gaming console that many are saying
is just
a big hoax or scam - as there seems to be very little real
information on the thing. Now
TAD writes in to point out that:
"The Phantom console has shown up at
CES, with no games, no screen shots - the reps wouldn't even turn
it on. Just a box with some "ports" on it." Doesn't do much to
inspire confidence.
The phantom Phantom game console
The phantom Phantom game console
01/12/2004 04:04 AMThe Phantom PC Game Console, which like the OQO and a few of the other
vaporous devices we'd been hearing about forever, finally showed up...
The MBA Menace
The MBA Menace
06/09/2004 06:10 AMManagement theorist and critic Henry Mintzberg has a few choice words
for all you newly minted MBAs: The way you were taught management is
all wrong.
"The Cuddly Menace"
"The Cuddly Menace"
02/06/2005 03:40 AMThe rootkit menace
The rootkit menace
03/14/2005 04:51 PMAlthough I didn't attend this session by two Microsoft program
managers at RSA 2005, IDG News Service did and filed a chilling
report. Rootkits are bad news. They give added incentive (as if any
were needed) to organizations to apply...
RDF - Messiah or Menace?
RDF - Messiah or Menace?
11/18/2002 08:55 AMThe Personal Surfing Menace
The Personal Surfing Menace
06/29/2004 02:15 PMWhat is it with filtering companies and their need to put out
fear-filled studies about just how many people are (gasp!) surfing
non-work sites at work? Plenty of studies have shown that a little
personal personal surfing at work
may be
a good thing for productivity and employee health and morale. It
lets them recharge their batteries, as well as take care of personal
business that might drag them fully away from work otherwise.
However, companies that sell filters always feel the need to bring it
up as if it's some sort of horrible office problem. That's true in
the latest study by some random web filtering company that points out
that
people see other
employees at work surfing shopping and news sites all the time.
What's amusing is that, rather than asking people if
they do
these things, the survey asks them only if they've "seen others" do it
-- and then follows it up by noting that 35% were "bothered" by seeing
others shopping online while 29% were bothered by others' sports
surfing. First off, just because so many people see others doing it,
it doesn't mean that they all are. In an office of 100 people, there
could be one person doing personal surfing (1%), but everyone could
see them, giving a response of 99% - so the numbers are misleading.
Second, there's no indication of other issues related to what bothers
people. If you see someone who isn't getting their work done at all,
then perhaps it makes sense to be bothered to find out they're
checking up on the latest scores. However, if they're productive, who
cares? Why should it matter if one employee is bothered that another
is surfing a sports site? Perhaps that employee is bothered that the
other one keeps peaking over the cubicle wall to see what they're
surfing. Maybe the company should start making taller cubicles to
protect against that "bothersome" issue. The study also plays the "oh
no! porn!" card to scare people as well -- warning that office workers
are often "accidentally" exposed to porn. What's really amusing here
is that, unlike with the personal surfing questions (which ask about
co-workers' activities), the questions on porn surfing were asked of
the worker themselves, making it
much more likely that they'll
say it was an "accident." When you do so something, it's an accident.
When someone else does it, it's problematic. But, don't worry, this
filtering company will solve all those problems...
Unholy trio menace Firefox
Unholy trio menace Firefox
04/19/2005 09:21 AMCritical update for Mozilla and Firefox
Computers in hospitals—an electronic
menace?
Computers in hospitals—an electronic
menace?
06/05/2005 10:53 PMThe hospital is somewhere you generally go to in order to get
better. Unfortunately, you can also catch some nasty bugs there. A
recent study has fingered an unlikely culprit for some the
problem—the computer.
Computers quickly become magnets for airborne dust and
bacteria-harboring dirt, which builds up on their internal cooling
fans.
The fans represent a further health hazard because of their potential
to blow that same dust around a ward.
Maybe Apple should bring back the Cube along with some
bacteria-resistant keyboards...
There is other science news including some possible very
unwelcome side effects of some erectile dysfunction drugs and the
problems of synthetic estrogens in the environment. Dig in to this
week's Science.Ars!
Root out the administrative password
menace
Root out the administrative password
menace
03/28/2005 10:31 AMZDNet India Mar 28 2005 1:59PM GMT
Database rootkit menace looms
Database rootkit menace looms
04/04/2005 04:38 AMCheck against delivery
Software bots could menace Google ads
Software bots could menace Google ads
02/05/2005 10:05 PMChoicePoint Wins Menace Award
ChoicePoint Wins Menace Award
04/16/2005 04:53 AMThe data broker takes top honors at this year's U.S. Big Brother
Awards, which spotlight invasive privacy practices in business and
government. Other winners include a California elementary school and
the Department of Education. By Joanna Glasner.
Downloading comics: threat or menace?
Downloading comics: threat or menace?
01/06/2005 12:14 PMCory Doctorow:
A comics fan who thinks downloading comics is immoral posted a long
rant to a message board, urging readers to shun comics-trading sites.
The debate that follows has several excellent posts -- but the most
interesting ones come from fanatical comics-buyers who download books
they already own in hardcopy because it's a "good way to be able to go
back and reread a book without running the risk of damaging it" and so
forth.
The comics industry has been creaking and threatening collapse for as
long as I've been reading funnybooks. One thing that's always
frustrated me is the incomprehensible lag between the monthly books
and the bound collections: if you wander into a bookstore and discover
issues 1-5 of Y: The Last Man or Issues 1-5 of Fables (both stone brilliant; run, don't walk) and fall in
love, why you can go on to pick up the subsequent collections, three
or four books each in all. Now, say you've read up to issue 20 of
Fables and you don't want to wait for the next collection to come out:
you want to take the plunge and become a regular, monthly comics
reader. You go down to your local comics store and say, "Please sell
me issues 21 through the current issue of Fables, and put the current
ish aside for me every month: I'm hooked!"
What usually happens is the comics person will say, "Sorry, we've got
issue 25, which is the current one, and number 24, but that's it --
the older ones are out of print." In other words, you got on the
Fables boat too late and you're not going to be able to catch up with
the book in comics form without buying issues from collectors or off
of eBay.
So here's a gedankenexperiment for ya: what if the DC and Marvel put
all their funnybooks on the Web two months after they were shipped to
the stores? My guess is that the kind of comics reader who downloads
issues so that he won't be "running the risk of damaging" the
hard-copy will continue to buy as many comics as ever.
But if you believe the comics industry, it's going broke selling to
just the people who put their comics in mylar bags and stack them in
hermetic vaults. Funnybooks need to attract a civilian audience who
will dip their toes in from time to time, buy the occassional
collection, read one or two books a month: it needs a LOT of those
people.
The bound collections are a great way to hook new readers. They're
retailed in regular book-stores, so they're visible to the kind of
person who never goes into a Graphic Novelle Emporium. All that's
missing is a way to turn collection readers into
monthly-plus-collection readers. The Web could be that way. Scott
McCloud has written some brilliant stuff about what a comic that's
designed for the Web should look like, but here's the whole other way
to use the Web to advance the comics biz: give old issues away to
bridge the gap between customer acquisition and customer retention.
Here's at least one comics dealer who sees free downloads of comics
driving his business:
This is a message from Derithian who for some reason newsarama wont
let him post it......maybe I just need to restart but I'm to busy
right now RUNNING A COMIC SHOP!
I am going to come out and say it; I am a member of the z-cult. Not
only that I'm a forum mod. To say anything different would put what I
say in a different light. I found the Cult about a month after it
started. I hadn't read a comic in more than 5 years and hated it all.
Comic books were for kids and stupid. Then I downloaded because
someone told me I had to read something. So I read it. A month later I
opened my own shop.
Not only did I open my own shop, I sell comics to foreign members of
z-cult from my shop who are interested in buying books but aren't in
areas where you can buy them. Interesting isn't it. You can say all
you want that downloading hurts the industry when I have personally
because of the cult put tens of thousands of dollars back into the
industry. Not to mention I started my own comic development studio to
publish local writers online.
Link
(
Thanks, Max!)
Symantec fights auto-responder menace
Symantec fights auto-responder menace
05/14/2004 07:36 AMNo tsunamis swamping spoofed addys
Technology Strains to Find Menace in the
Crowd
Technology Strains to Find Menace in the
Crowd
05/30/2004 11:23 PMNew York Times May 31 2004 3:59AM GMT
Twin Storms Menace Florida, Caribbean
Twin Storms Menace Florida, Caribbean
08/12/2004 05:43 AMReuters via Wired News Aug 12 2004 10:31AM GMT
Phishing and viral tech combines in new
menace
Phishing and viral tech combines in new
menace
11/14/2003 08:05 AMMimail-I targets PayPal punters
US wins David Blunkett Lifetime Menace
Award
US wins David Blunkett Lifetime Menace
Award
07/29/2004 06:35 AMBig Brother awards 2004 VISIT program honoured
Twin Storms Menace Caribbean Islands,
Florida (Reuters)
Twin Storms Menace Caribbean Islands,
Florida (Reuters)
08/11/2004 10:42 PMReuters - Hurricane Charley drenched
Jamaica on Wednesday as it churned through the Caribbean toward
Key West while Tropical Storm Bonnie, also likely to become a
hurricane, was poised to strike the northwest of Florida.
Phantom IRC Services
Phantom IRC Services
07/06/2004 12:05 AMNew Staff Added
The Phantom Console
The Phantom Console
05/11/2004 09:27 AMInfinium Labs sets launch for Phantom console: There's a new
gaming console coming. It's free with a two year subscription to
their gaming service,
The console features a PC-like architecture, with 256 megabytes of
RAM and a 40 gigabyte hard drive, running an embedded version of
Windows XP. It will use a custom controller and support surround sound
and high-definition TV.
But Bachus downplayed the capabilities of the hardware, saying the
real focus was the gaming service. "It's kind of a fool's errand to
try and chase the PC," he said.
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Spooked by a Phantom
Spooked by a Phantom
01/17/2004 10:56 PMThe new Phantom from Infinium Lab is the promise of high-end computer
power with console ease. But will it work?
How to get game? Phantom knows
How to get game? Phantom knows
05/27/2004 06:29 AMChicago Tribune May 27 2004 10:49AM GMT
Phantom console
Phantom console
11/05/2003 07:08 PMTales of the Phantom
Tales of the Phantom
01/28/2004 02:20 AMUSA Today Jan 28 2004 6:51AM GMT
Phantom pixels in CSS
Phantom pixels in CSS
06/04/2004 02:16 PMLast weekend I helped get a great new FCC policy blog up called Wireless Unleashed. It's a
cool idea about how once regular TV stations go digital, all the
unused stuff above channel 13 could be reallocated as a new free
wireless spectrum, kind of like a super powerful 802.11b.
Anyway, now that the site is up, I can point out a phantom CSS
pixel problem I encountered while doing the layout. I used a basic
three colum CSS layout, with some padding in the main content area. My
favorite hack is that it's got a background image to make the post
area and sidebar fill their space to the bottom (while using an alpha
transparent png that degrades nicely in IE for windows). On this one
page, the design called for full-width banners, so I put some
inline CSS to override the padding in the white area, and to get IE
and moz to display the full width banners I had to resort to an image
replacement hack.
Now, here's the crazy part. The center column isn't fixed width in
CSS even though it's a fixed width layout, and the banners with
people's names on them are the full width of that space. If you look
carefully, you'll see a pixel or two of white space on the right edge
of the banners. In firefox I see one pixel. In IE/Win, I see about 3
px. If you scroll down below the right sidebar to the last banner,
you'll see that it's flush and there's no gap at all. The background
line between white and orange doesn't bend, but the banners don't
appear all the way to the edge when content is on the right. I can't
figure out why, and just gave up on trying.
Phantom Authority Network
Phantom Authority Network
01/16/2004 10:56 AMAndrea Cifftolilli's Phantom Authority case study on Wikipedia applies
team and good club theory and transaction cost analysis to provide
insight into how large scale wikis work. Do read this paper...I'm only
providing a single point here. First the numbers,...
On-Demand Games a Phantom No More
On-Demand Games a Phantom No More
05/10/2004 06:04 AMThe long-awaited Phantom Gaming Service -- which lets customers rent
or buy PC games online -- will go on sale in November. Infinium Labs
hopes to attract 'lapsed' gamers who don't have time to cruise the
aisles at the mall. By Kourosh Karimkhany.
Phantom Goes Live in 2005
Phantom Goes Live in 2005
12/24/2004 12:15 PM
This is a shocker: The Phantom Game
Service will be demonstrated at the upcoming CES in the Microsoft
Booth in preperation for going live in 2005. I always assumed that the
Phantom would live up to its name and go down in a flaming streak of
screaming investors. The device will use Windows XP Embedded
technology to deliver games to peoples’ living rooms. Infinium Labs,
the company behind the Phantom, say they’ve got the backing of nearly
two dozen leading game providers.
Infinium Labs to Demonstrate Phantom at CES
Wraps come off Phantom console
Wraps come off Phantom console
05/10/2004 10:17 AMBBC May 10 2004 2:13PM GMT
Phantom Console To Use Windows XP
Phantom Console To Use Windows XP
11/15/2003 08:50 AMFirst Phantom Renaissance Screens
First Phantom Renaissance Screens
06/14/2004 04:33 PMTop Secret Fanless Antec 350 W PSU
Phantom
Top Secret Fanless Antec 350 W PSU
Phantom
01/23/2004 02:22 PMInfinium Labs Unmasks the Phantom
Infinium Labs Unmasks the Phantom
05/10/2004 11:51 AMInfinium Labs creeps tentatively out of the morass of lawsuits and
speculation today to finally reveal some hard facts about the machine
that sees itself less as a gaming console and more of an interface to
a gaming experience. Billing itself as a "game receiver," the Phantom
(now with an...
Infinium Says Phantom E3 Internet Was
Live
Infinium Says Phantom E3 Internet Was
Live
05/27/2004 12:16 PMOh, remember at E3 when we reported that Infinium Labs' Phantom game
summoning device wasn't streaming live content from the web? Infinium
contacted me to maintain that they did have Internet connections for
the Phantom receivers in the E3 booth....
Phantom Controller Rebranded Saitek
Phantom Controller Rebranded Saitek
05/17/2004 07:40 AMReader Ryan Block made a good connection: the new controller for
Infinium Labs' Phantom Receiver is just a rebranded Saitek P220 PC
gaming pad. Fortunately, Block says the $10 he spent on his P220 has
been money well spent, despite its lack of analog controls or
shoulder-buttons. Related The Phantom...
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