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Braindead TechCast EP 113: Real men can pet their mouse

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  • Posted 1029 days ago

Our English may suck and our grammar may drive people nuts but at least we do what we do with passion and without destroying any movie or television analogies.

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Braindead TechCast EP 109: Bored with Flipboard but is it legal?

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  • Posted 1035 days ago

I’m not sure what happened to Sean at one point during the show but he managed to fight his way out of the fog and return just in time for a fun conversation about movies. Don’t worry they are tech related.

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You just had to know this kind of crap was coming

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  • Posted 1132 days ago

One of the more interesting arguments I have heard lately comes from Charles Arthur at the Guardian where he suggests that the closed system typified by Apple and its recently released iPad is the way that the web should be going. His reasoning of course is because of all the badness that the openness of the Windows platform has caused us.

In short, closed proprietary systems are good.  Open inexpensive systems are bad. The iPad is the answer to our security concerns. Windows is to blame for everything that is going wrong (never mind the people using it).

WTF?

Look I agree that Windows has been a major weakness with web security but that has to be looked at with the understanding that the Windows platform has the largest user base in the world. Anything with the kind of attention that Windows has is bound to be attacked.

But to suggest that we should all give up the openness that comes with that platform in favor of using computers and other electronic gadgets from Apple just because it is ruled with an iron fist is … well .. brain dead and to suggest it as a viable alternative is just plain stupid.

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There’s captchas and then there’s silliness

Look I get the need for things like captchas in this day and age of pissant spammers and their ilk. But if they have managed to find a way to bust through them to the point we need this kind of response maybe we should try figuring out something else. One word, two words and now we have frikken sentences – well maybe that’s stretching the point but as you can see it’s pretty darn close.

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This is the captcha that greeted me when I went to add someone as a friend on Facebook. Like I said I get the need, I really do but this is a bit much.

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Best quote yet about Opera’s Unite non-feature

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  • Posted 1435 days ago

I have made no secret of what I think about Opera’s newest hot feature that they say will transform the web. Both on The Inquisitr and The Cynical Bastards podcast (which will get posted later this evening) I refer to it as repurposed old web technology with splashy social media buzzwords wrapped around it.

As hard as I might have tried though I couldn’t have come up with as good a description of this silliness as Tom Kelchner from Sunbelt Software did today:

Opera has introduced a new feature called “Unite” that will allow users to turn their browsers into servers. It’s a concept that might be as well-thought-out as sending customers on a hike in a safari park with backpacks full of raw meat.

Thank you Tom you just made my day.

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Maybe it’s just me but I found this humorous

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  • Posted 1439 days ago

I realize that I have a strange sense of humor sometimes but when I saw the following screen as I was checking out payment options for various anti-virus companies. The company I was checking out was F-Secure and when I clicked through to see if they took PayPal this was at the top of the page

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Like I said I have a strange sense of humor. I thought it was just a tad funny that the payment processor for one security company uses one of the client company competitors for their site security – and a lousy one at that.

Oh and don’t bother going all logical on me cause I realize they probably handle a lot of companies in the same business. enjoy the humor for what it is and lighten up a bit :)

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Anti-virus should be OS level but it’ll never happen

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  • Posted 1439 days ago

computer-security I’ve been playing around with different anti-virus software packages the last few days, and still am, which made reading a couple of recent post rather interesting. The first one was by Svetlana Gladkova over at Profy.com where she related her trials and tribulations trying to find a package she was comfortable with. Being Russian she tried a couple of ‘native’ solutions including one from Kaspersky’s.

In the end though she decided to go with new offering from Panda which is the first cloud based anti-virus product on the market. I also gave it a shot but it definitely didn’t want to play nice on my Windows 7 RC install so I was back hunting once more.

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