AOL Makes a woopsey .. data released..

it was only last sept when news was released about Maureen Govern was to become Chief Technology Officer with AOL..

having started with Bell in 1978 and moved onto motorola and then Convergys Corporation it was announced today that effective immediately she will be stepping down from this role.

Why you may be wondering.. have a read of some of the following articles relating to the personal data stored by 650,000 AOL users that was released last week

from Blog search at news.com which mentions possible FTC non compliance

Some of the fall out can be seen in this article about an AOL subscriber More from USATODAY.COM on this subscriber

Google says it could not happen to us .. but considering the amount of data google stores from desktop searches to each of their products .. it does not really bare thinking about

it is amazing when searching aol they have already removed her personal page on the whoswho where as john mckinley is still mentioned as “overseeing this area” of aol.

.. I could keep on going with pages on this subject but will conclude with this page which took me .. one google search to find

Bush Approved Surveilance Halted ..

The warrantless Internet and telephone surveillance program
authorized by the Bush administration violates the U.S. Constitution
and must cease immediately, a federal judge ruled Thursday

for more read this article entitled “Federal judge orders halt to NSA spy program | over on  ZDNet”

Long over due that Governments and Large Corporate bodies that invade the privacy of individuals should be held up before their own laws that call this Illegal

Lest we forget on the day .. 6 and 9th Anniversaries ..

When the sixties came I was not even a thought and when woodstock kicked in I was only an expression of the love between my mum and my da .. well thats what he always said and who am I to argue ..

but it is times like these that thoughts of the sixties revolution should come to the fore and we should stand up and be counted ..

it is sad browsing the net and seeing sites like this one Vietnam Generation Journal not being updated on a regular basis ..

so when I was growing up I heard all about woodstock .. martin luther king, malcolm x and other revolutionaries whether you agree with them or not it was a time for social upheaval and questions asked of state and man.. but did we hear of the stories of the forgotten marines (article written by Former Secretary of the Navy James Webb)

in light of what is happening in the middle east, israel and the lebanon, syria , north korea, africa, or where ever in the world it is time eyes were opened.. and mouth started action again .. Vietnam pics and quick snopsis here. another site to browse onto is Stop the War Coalition I suspect if I continued in posting there would be a myriad of sites to post here .. but that was not my point I am just tired of discussing history with a younger misinformed generation with biased views on history .. and as we all know history is writted by the victors and not those that have to survive the carnage left behind

here are some articles for you to read ..

Depleted weapons in the balkans

The Iraqi Fallout

Nagasaki, Hiroshima and related links

Woo is me

or is it ..

working in IT you would think that of all people you would test new hardware beign used for backup

when backing up you would copy data rather than move .. yes I know I know .. dont move ..

well I did and have discoved a great utility for recovery

those that know me I am loath to pay when I can get for free .. and this tool .. although cut down from the full product is superb .. when you have moved nearly 30gbs of data and the heads on the hard drive fail well you need something to help out .. and this certainly helps

Granted the data was not on the Os partition and I could install the software on the os partition and run it off the data partition, and recover onto a new drive

have tested multiple files docs video etc and all appear fine

so Thumbs up from me on this superb little tool

after all that here is the link to Handyrecovery (browse on down half way for the freeware)

Ransom Virus – Warning to all

Ok so we are all used to getting spammed by mail proporting to give us riches or enhance our abilities with our loved ones 

but a word of warning to all, there is a new variant of a virus that has been floating around for a while and is activated by users clicking on attachments from unknown senders ..

here is some tech knowledge and links on how to get past this

From MSNBC comes this article 

A discription from a Gnu board .. with links to pc mag and symantec (take note of when this was posted 2005) 

Credible Fix from Sophos

From Feb 2006 .. word of warning from the Korea Times 

From Network Associates .. their description 

and Finally from Securiteams website .. about half way down ..  

as always . best way to protect your self is keep your antivirus uptodate .. your operating system upto date and scan scan regularly

American Library Of Congress

Great link to The Library of Congress

with a wealth of information as can be seen in their collection

Sudoku for Free

yup you head it here ..

Thanks to TechCentral we have sudoku for Free ..

opens with Excell or I presume other Spreadsheet applications

Vote for your favorite Icecream

Thanks to HB I have just voted for one of my favorite icecreams to bring it back 

ahh Dracula .. brings back memories 

 So here is the link for all to vote

after all the Wibbly Wobbly Wonder is now back on the shelves 

Flying Dolphins

As seen on Discovery Channel innespace.com

one word Superb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As sourced by Kishada of  100nxc Fame

Playstation 3 .. November Launch Date

Looks like the launch date has been set back to have games ready and a worldwide launch occasion .. all can be read in the link 

PlayStation.com: News