You probably remember the online outrage over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) copyright enforcement proposal. Last week, the Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force released a report on digital copyright policy that endorsed one piece of the controversial proposal: making the streaming of copyrighted works a felony. As it stands now, streaming a copyrighted work over the Internet is considered a violation of the public performance right. The violation is only punishable as a misdemeanor, rather than the […]

Great to hear that we have the new fastest supercomputer, and we plan on keeping it that way. Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy’s top open science computer, is going live on Monday with an upgrade that will likely make it the fastest supercomputer on the planet. At 20 petaflops — that’s 20 quadrillion calculations each second — Titan outperforms by four petaflops the DOE’s Sequoia supercomputer, which has held the crown since June. What is really […]

Yet cybersecurity has now been shown to be a number one concern for companies across the world. The largest, and most damaging, cyberattack has now taken place. On Aug. 15, more than 55,000 Saudi Aramco employees stayed home from work to prepare for one of Islam’s holiest nights of the year — Lailat al Qadr, or the Night of Power — celebrating the revelation of the Koran to Muhammad. That morning, at 11:08, a person with privileged […]

Happy birthday Snappy, and they are giving some crazy deals! I love having all of my sites with them, and I am using there domain registration now too (especially at 5 bucks) <—- Click here 🙂 HostGator.com LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, VPS and dedicatedweb hosting. Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by Founder and current Chairman Brent Oxley, who started the company from his dorm room at Florida […]

Ready for your ISP’s and media outlets to know exactly what you are downloading, when, and where from? They have been doing that, but now they are not only keeping track of it, but they are going to use it against you. It is about to get a bit more difficult to download TV shows, movies or music online. A new alert system, rolling out over the next two months, will repeatedly warn and possibly […]

It’s the professional’s facebook, without the politics and crazy trolls (most of the time).  Social media can be a great way for your business to both expand and build as well as solidify your brand, which can in turn bring in more customers. While there are numerous services out there, many companies focus on Facebook and Twitter, when they should also be focusing on the main business related social media service: LinkedIn. Here’s four reasons […]

Ok, so I am being a little selfish and posting a video about my awesome son 🙂 But my little Michael Phelps did amazing today. http://bit.ly/T8Xjrx

“I’ve never had a job working in tech support, but I have called it, and I am an idiot, so I have a pretty good idea of what they have to deal with. Tech Support, as a concept, sounds impossible to me: You get on the phone with someone who has a problem they can’t articulate that they want you to fix, and then they yell at you if you don’t do it. I’m not […]

By far the easiest way to handle MySql administration, and I love it more every day. I am getting more and more into DB administration, and needed a way to access these files without direct access to the server. I started with some VPN type style, even though I knew I needed to get into phpMyAdmin. Sometimes I think the new will just take too long to get used to so I push it off, […]

LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) is a business-related social networking site. To give you an idea of how many people will see you on LinkedIn: roughly one million new members join LinkedIn every week, at a rate equivalent to a professional joining the site faster than one member per second. LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. 100m+ professionals around the world […]