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Consider my septuagenarian father-in-law Exhibit A in the battle against spyware- the malicious software that operates on a computer without the user's informed consent. This past holiday season, I emailed him a link to the Apple Store, so that he could buy his beloved son an iTunes gift card. But when he clicked on the legitimate link, his computer took him to another website, where he forked over $40 for a $15 card. (He did actually get the card, but at an illegitimate $25 premium; Apple ships for free...
...spyware applications out there, says Webroot CEO David Moll. Surreptitious software hijacks a user's computer, then pops up a little box-looking for all the world like it's been generated by Microsoft-warning the computer has been infected. It then asks the user to click on a link to download anti-spyware. The money goes into the rogue's pocket, and the computer is still sick. "That's as sneaky as it gets," says Moll. "Spyware is advancing in sophistication, and is playing on weakness in the user. There's still a relatively low adoption level of anti...
...deeply affronted by the link made between Muslims' faith and violence. If the cartoonists had shown a real terrorist with a bomb on his head, I wouldn't care less, but why should my faith be portrayed in this way? More Muslims' deaths are caused by the violence of Western politics than Muslims are responsible for causing. Using the freedom-of-expression argument, Europe has found yet another way of telling us we are not wanted, we do not belong. And I hate...
According to Palmer, while each speaker takes the book in a different direction, two important themes that link together the individual interviews are courage and the “simultaneity of wildly contrasting human fates...
...must for any organization, especially one, like Harvard, that is looking aggressively into the future. Nor am I suggesting a blind adherence to tradition. I’m simply noting, with a twinge of sadness, the definitive ending of a chapter of my life, a severing of a link to my undergraduate experience. As the University continues to evolve—for example, the Quad houses will become graduate student housing when undergraduate houses are built in Allston—this rootlessness is a feeling with which more and more alumni will have to contend...