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What Happened to Microsoft Azure on Friday; Death by Security Certificate
An expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate just became the lethal bugaboo for Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Storage services when the expiration pulled down the cloud service on Friday afternoon. It took the software mega-giant less than a day to fix the problem and Microsoft announced on Saturday that the service had been entirely restored. “Beginning ...
Chromebook Review Part 4: Entertainment
I love my online media and I am at heart a gamer. So these two things inform how I look at a device when it comes to entertaining myself. As for my experience here, it’s been a mixed bag: the Samsung Chromebook has some fairly good options for movies and music but it’s not the ...
Big Data Security and Intelligence into 2013
The Information Age is quickly becoming the age of information-overload–to combat this, we’ve seen search, curation, and even intelligent agents start to take shape out of the desire to make sense of all the data available. For big business it’s become a whole different problem: the complexity of data that flows through their systems means ...
Chromebook Review Part 3: The Apps
Since every one of these articles has been written on the Chromebook, an astute reader, by now will wonder about what apps I’m using. Since the underlying OS is Google Chrome, that means that every app that is available for use on the Chromebook is either a Chrome app or some derivation thereof designed to ...
Google’s Talks With Payment Processors Would Only Benefit Bitcoin
Last week, rumors that Google has been in talks with major online payment processing outfits such as MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal to starve “illegal” websites appeared in an article in the UK’s Telegraph. While the search giant could certainly be asked to chill the search listings of such sites, payment processors have long been used ...
Chromebook Review Part 2: The Setup
Once running, the Chromebook boots with miracle swiftness and whisper silence. First, it wants to know how to connect to the nearest Wi-Fi network. The Chromebook doesn’t run very well (initially) without a connection to the Internet. I expected this, it is after all an OS based almost entirely on the cloud that runs mostly ...
Chromebook Review Part 1: The Unboxing
It’s a rainy day and Fedex says that the Samsung Chromebook is on the truck–out for delivery. For me, it’s like any other day as I wait and do general work at the computer. The tasks are simple: play a few games, read everything in my Google Reader feed, retweet a few messages on Twitter, ...
3D Printing and the Upcoming Cultural Crisis in Gun Control
3D printers represent a technology that may have great implications for the culture of prohibition–that idea that “things” can be controlled by regulation. Certainly this has become true for questions of copyright when it comes to the ease-of-copying and the digital era; but now 3D printers are bringing the ability to produce tangible objects into ...
TV Viewers in Marquette, MI and Great Falls, MT Treated to Zombie Warnings via EAS
The city of Marquette, Michigan had two separate TV stations warn viewers of a zombie apocalypse via the emergency alert systems including an announcement that “dead bodies are rising from their graves.” Hackers accessed the ESA of both PBS-affiliate WNMU Channel 13 and ABC-affiliate WBUP-TV Channel 10 sending out scrolling text as well as an ...
Nodejitsu Announces Partnership with Telefonica to Amplify DevOps with Node.js WebOps
Nodejitsu just announced a partnership that will change the landscape of Node.js development as deployed across Platform-as-a-Service using the Joyent cloud. By partnering with Telefonica the PaaS company becomes the first on the market to give customers a choice of infrastructure provider as well as what datacenter they want their applications to run on—this is ...