Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=56828People seem to get upset when threads stay off the chosen topic. I, for one, find some digressions to be just as enlightening as the posts that are "on topic". I believe everything is connected. This board is for discussing technology; the kind that affects our lives every day. But if you want t...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5682838013210TimFBe Wary of Wayward WiFi You do it every day. You go home and your smartphone automatically connects to your WiFi network. Or you go to work and your laptop automatically connects to your corporate WiFi network. Maybe you frequent your local coffee shop or roam around enough that you connect automatically to...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288876435/10/2013 6:10:41 PMVentureCapAceAnyone ever heard of centaurustechnologiesinc.com  The ticker is CTDT. I'm a noob here so I can't start a board for it. However, the company is a OTCQB stock and a very low float share structure. The CEO holds the patents and 60% of the OS. It's a development company that has a revolutionary way of producing synth...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288812845/7/2013 9:40:06 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288802245/7/2013 12:29:12 PMSr KWEEK IN IDEAS | April 19, 2013, 9:02 p.m. ET Week in Ideas: Daniel Akst Thumbs Up for Speed If you're all thumbs when you type on a portable device, help is on the way. Researchers at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Informatics have developed a keyboard app optimized for thumb typing. [graphic] Jason Lee Resear...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288506514/22/2013 12:15:29 AMHerbVic Remember James Burke and the popular documentary "Connections?" Well, if you enjoyed that show, then here's a freebee you don't want to miss. - Herb topdocumentaryfilms.com  Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of hi...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288447444/18/2013 6:26:41 PMTimFGoogle Lets Users Plan ‘Digital Afterlife’ By Naming Heirs Google on Wednesday became one of the first major Internet companies to put control of data after death directly into the hands of its users. The Internet giant unveiled a dashboard for users of its Gmail, Google+, cloud storage Drive, Picasa albums, YouTube ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288432154/18/2013 10:44:41 AMTimFAmericans spend less money on groceries than we did a few decades ago. That's partly because of new machines and technology that have made it much cheaper to produce food. We went to Herr's potato chip factory to see some of this food-making technology in action. vimeo.com  gregmankiw.blogspot.com  (spend less in ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288324664/12/2013 10:59:58 PMTimFDoes a Ban on Driving While “Using a Wireless Telephone” Prohibit Driving While Looking at a Map on a Smartphone? Orin Kerr • April 4, 2013 6:49 pm Here’s an interesting question of statutory interpretation raised by the invention of smartphones. California law bans using cell phones while driving as follows: A p...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288189014/5/2013 8:30:53 PMTimFYahoo Buys A Mobile News Startup Founded By A 15-Year-Old For $30 Million Yahoo announced today that it has acquired Summly, a mobile news aggregation app from British entrepreneur Nick D'Aloisio. D'Aloisio is only 17-years-old. When he started Summly, he was only 15. Summly scans the Web for news and uses an algori...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288049693/28/2013 5:14:47 PMTimFGetting a handle on security certificates By Susan Bradley on November 21, 2012 We rely on SSL certificates for safe Web surfing and secure online transactions; but how many of us understand the issues surrounding security certs — or those related error messages? Here’s wha...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=288020843/27/2013 12:07:39 PMTimFSocial-engineering threats are rapidly growing, courtesy of the security vulnerabilities of sites that regularly use abbreviated URLs. Anyone who's read Twitter or Facebook posts is familiar with cryptic URLs such as bitly, tinyurl, and snipurl. Because they're shortened to seemingly random letters, numbers, and c...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287904733/21/2013 7:34:44 AMTimFCops: U.S. law should require logs of your text messages Silicon Valley firms and privacy groups want Congress to update a 1986-era electronic privacy law. But if a law enforcement idea set to be presented today gets attached, support for the popular proposal would erode. news.cnet.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287897923/20/2013 6:16:43 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287633623/6/2013 1:04:01 PMHerbVic Researchers create lithium-ion battery that can stretch to 300% its original size By Sebastian Anthony on February 26, 2013 at 2:39 pm [graphic]http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287512282/28/2013 1:28:29 AMHerbVicThat "Google Gains From Creating Apps for the Opposition" should be self evident to anyone who knows anything about the company's advertising business model. It is the subtextual issue that the article raises and that you seem to have locked onto that is rather thin, IMHO. From the article: IPhone users who spend muc...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287477972/26/2013 2:03:59 PMStock PuppyWell their start doesn't look promising. Costs a little more than an Apple laptop and - I assume - can only be used if Internet is present (wifi or 4G)http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287471442/26/2013 9:45:09 AMorganicgerryHerbVic - I can understand why you are committed to the Apple ecosystem. I don't think Google is an 800 pound gorilla yet, but I think they are making the right strategic moves for the future. Android already dominates smart phones, I think it will gradually increase tablet market share until it dominates this sector...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287444992/24/2013 10:20:46 PMHerbVicWhile it's just anecdotal information, there's two people in my family that can't wait to complete their Android based phone contracts so they can get an iPhone. I use Google services and have no need for an Android phone. I don't think there is a lot of stickiness within their ecosystem. In Apple's ecosystem that I ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287444492/24/2013 9:34:23 PMorganicgerryGoogle/Android will be the new 800 pound gorilla (my opinion) I am watching the tech market now and am surprised how quickly Microsoft is becoming irrelevant, and Apple might be next. Android already has 75% of the smart phone market, young people who used to love their iPhones are switching en masse to Android ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287442472/24/2013 7:15:55 PMTimFAnti-social networking: The new chic? By Barbara Krasnoff December 11, 2012 10:03 AM EST Remember America Online, later known as AOL? For over a decade, from 1990s through the 2000s, it was incredibly popular among less-technical consumers, offering them email, dial-up access, chat rooms and other fea...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=287435892/24/2013 12:01:49 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=286880731/25/2013 8:06:00 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=286854791/24/2013 6:43:16 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=286420991/3/2013 9:29:11 PMTimFPhone 1 shows 4 bars and Phone 2 shows 2 bars in the same location. Phone 2 is worse, right?Short answer: Not necessarily. Long answer: The "bars" display shows a single number, quite coarsely. But to actually understand your reception conditions, there are two numbers you'd really like to know. One is the absolute...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=286420531/3/2013 8:59:22 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2863053212/28/2012 3:24:40 PMTimFRouters using WPS are intrinsically unsafe By Fred Langa Simple hacker tools can easily sniff out Wi-Fi passwords from routers that have Wi-Fi Protected Setup enabled — quite possibly yours included. Here's how to protect your network — and even hack your own router to see whether it's vulnerable. Launche...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2863052812/28/2012 3:24:13 PMTimFHow Can I Recover Data from a Dead or Erased Hard Drive? Alan Henry Dear Lifehacker, I have a hard drive with valuable information on it, but I can't seem to access it—the drive is either damaged or erased. Is there any way I can see what's on the drive and get it of...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2862118612/22/2012 10:24:01 AMTimFCan you ditch your smartphone data plan for Wi-Fi? With so much free Wi-Fi around, it would be great if wireless operators allowed people to chuck their smartphone data plans. In Ask Maggie, CNET's Marguerite Reardon explains why that will never happen. by Marguerite Reardon November 28, 2012 12:00 AM PST ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2857251911/28/2012 1:26:14 PMTimFThe man who sent sex text in error to ALL his contacts... and ended up in prison Craig Evans, 24, had been jailed for 18 months for inciting a child to engage in sexual activity Freed after judges hear the messages went out to all his contacts including members of his own family By Paul Bentley PUBLISHED: 12:...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2851981311/3/2012 4:59:53 PMTimFUS rules jailbreaking tablets is illegal But jailbreaking smartphones is still legal By Lawrence Latif Fri Oct 26 2012, 12:54 THE UNITED STATES Librarian of Congress has ruled that jailbreaking tablets remains off limits, although jailbreaking smartphones remains legal. Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and a ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2850562510/28/2012 2:33:06 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2850302610/26/2012 9:28:31 PMTimFPopular RATs Found Riddled With Bugs, Weak Crypto Research by former interns for Matasano Security exposes flaws in remote administration tools Oct 11, 2012 | 05:19 PM | By Kelly Jackson Higgins Dark Reading RATs have bugs, too: New research shows that remote administration tools often used for...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2847790110/16/2012 9:19:32 PMTimFSlingbox 500 and Slingbox 350 Break Cover Shane McGlaun(Blog) - October 10, 2012 9:21 AM Slingbox 500 will display smartphone content on your TV dailytech.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2846685110/11/2012 2:03:16 PMStock PuppyHope they put it through spell check. I keep CC on usually, although my hearing is okay. Sometimes the results are quite funny.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2845631310/5/2012 6:03:58 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2845621910/5/2012 5:23:46 PMStock Puppyhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2845617110/5/2012 5:04:38 PMTimFSearchable archive of text from TV shows. aei-ideas.org  [graphic]Message 28455612http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=2845561610/5/2012 1:45:41 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284344769/26/2012 10:28:09 AMTimFFacebook’s plan to find its next billion users: convince them the internet and Facebook are the same By Christopher Mims — September 24, 2012 This is the story of Facebook’s rapidly unfolding plan to take over the world, or at least the world wide web. It’s a tale th...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284337789/25/2012 10:00:34 PMTimFMany ways to break SSL with CRIME attacks, experts warn Despite browser fixes, disabling SSL compression on servers may be best defense. by Dan Goodin - Sep 17, 2012 9:23 pm UTC A hexadecimal representation of a compressed POST Web request. By changing characters in attacker-controlled data and...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284334869/25/2012 6:34:54 PMSr KSeptember 20, 2012, 11:14 a.m. ET THE JOURNAL REPORT: INNOVATIONS IN TRANSPORTATION Signals Ahead New kinds of traffic signs promise to keep everything flowing By MATTHEW KASSEL It's a mad, mad world out there on the roads. Congestion is climbing along with the number of cars. Signs and intersections can be confusi...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284260859/21/2012 7:55:07 PMTimFDiscussions of rights to and liability for content on used drives. classicalvalues.com  answers.yahoo.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284229669/20/2012 5:42:33 PMTimFWhat is it with all these actresses throwing themselves at me? Gets tiring after awhile ;)http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284229629/20/2012 5:41:51 PMCogitohttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284211549/20/2012 4:22:32 AMTimFFor some reason Jennifer Love Hewitt, keeps showing up in Facebook under "People you might know"...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284208099/19/2012 10:53:31 PMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284119719/16/2012 8:44:42 AMTimFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=284013089/12/2012 12:11:58 AMTimFPrepare for Cheaper E-Books After This Big Publishers Settlement theatlanticwire.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283902689/6/2012 7:52:41 PMTimF ...Taken together, the Jaguar and Indochino ads illustrate a terrible problem for the Web marketing business. I call it the uncanny valley of Internet advertising. Today’s Web ads don’t know enough about you to avoid pitching you stuff that you’d never, ever buy. They do know just enough about you, though, to ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283837949/4/2012 5:47:14 PMTimFFind a $1 Macro Lens for Your Phone Inside a Cheap Laser Pointer Michael Zhang · Aug 12, 2012 [graphic] If you want to take Lensbaby-style selective focus macro shots using your phone, go buy a cheap laser pointer. Photographer Zaheer Mohiuddin writes that the lens inside laser pointers (the one that focuses the l...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=283593908/24/2012 7:38:45 PM