Latest Forum Topics http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/ List of the latest topics from our public forum. <![CDATA[Facebook Connect, OpenID & SMS Alerts]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/forum-2-4/facebook-connect-openid-sms-alerts/ Facebook connect is now online. If you wish to use it, please be aware that you can not currently link existing accounts. OpendID will be installed so...
On another note SMS alters are not online. You can set-up up this by clicking on the "SMS Settings" under the "Settings" menu.]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/forum-2-4/facebook-connect-openid-sms-alerts/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:12:00 +0000 Aaron Manuel Esquivel <![CDATA[Best Buy & GeekSquad - Shady Services]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/uncategorized-86/best-buy-geeksquad-shady-services/
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Consumer Reports/Consumerist investigation details Best Buy's worthless optimization service

With Circuit City now out of the way as its major competitor in the U.S. consumer electronics retailing business, Best Buy is plowing along with little resistance. The Richfield, Minnesota-based company employs over 150,000 people and has over 1,000 stores in 49 states.

However, Margins are notoriously slim in the consumer electronics retail business, and Best Buy has been using its Geek Squad services subsidiary to help bolster revenues.

In its latest investigation, The Consumerist tackled Best Buy's Geek Squad optimization services which retails for $39.95. During its investigation involving 18 Best Buy stores in 11 states, the publication looked to determine 1) What exactly is included in the optimization service, 2) How does Best Buy market the service, and 3) Is it worth it to the consumer to purchase the service.


Continued Here]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/uncategorized-86/best-buy-geeksquad-shady-services/ Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:41:45 +0000 RandomTask Softeare Firewalls http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/security-35/softeare-firewalls/

Open Source



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Paid]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/security-35/softeare-firewalls/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:19:36 +0000 RandomTask Encryption Programs http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/security-35/encryption-programs/
Open Source

TrueCrypt - On version 6.x of developm...]]>
Open Source

TrueCrypt - On version 6.x of development. TrueCrypt uses AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish encryption algorithms. The software supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X based systems

FreeOTEF - Supports Linux an Windows based systems. AES and Twofish Algorithms are used.

[link-'http://www.gnupg.org/']GnuPG - free implementation of the OpenPGP standard.
Supports ElGamal, DSA, RSA, AES, 3DES, Blowfish, Twofish, CAST5, MD5, SHA-1, RIPE-MD-160 and TIGER

(windows version: Gpg4win)

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PGP Whole Disk Encryption - Designed for the encryption of laptops, desktops and removable media. Supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS x. Utilizes RSA SID800


PGP Netshare - Designed for network file and folder encryption.]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/security-35/encryption-programs/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:11:34 +0000 RandomTask Why Are Some Civil Rights Groups and Leaders On the Wrong Side of Net Neutrality? http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/internet-103/why-are-some-civil-rights-groups-and-leaders-on-the-wrong-side-of-net-neutr/
Net Neutrality is the principle that prevents Internet Service Providers from controlling what kind of content or applications you can access online. It sounds wonky, but for Black and other communities, an open Internet offers a transformative opportunity to truly control our own voice and image, while reaching the largest number of people possible. This dynamic is one major reason why Barack Obama was elected president and why organizations like ColorOfChange.org exist.

So I was troubled to learn that several Congressional Black Caucus members were among 72 Democrats to write the FCC last fall questioning the need for Net Neutrality rules. I was further troubled that a number of our nation's leading civil rights groups had also taken positions questioning or against Net Neutrality, using arguments that were in step with those of the big phone and cable companies like AT&T and Comcast, which are determined to water down any new FCC rules.

James Rucker - Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/internet-103/why-are-some-civil-rights-groups-and-leaders-on-the-wrong-side-of-net-neutr/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:10:07 +0000 RandomTask Finding More Wireless Spectrum Key Congressional Priority http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/uncategorized-86/finding-more-wireless-spectrum-key-congressional-priority/
Talking to the Congressional Internet Caucus' State of the Net Conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday (Jan. 27), Boucher laid out his legislative agenda for 2010, and spectrum reclamation or sharing led the list.

"The [spectrum] crunch will come soon," he said, "and we're going to need new spectrum within a manner of just a few years."

Boucher noted that the committee reported out of the subcommittee last week two bills requiring a comprehensive inventory by the FCC and the National Telecommunications & Information Administration of wireless spectrum.

He noted that last year, for the first time, the number of homes with cell phones but without land lines exceeded those with landlines but without cell phones. He said that disparity will continue, and that applications will require "ever-greater data rates and bandwidth," particularly for mobile video.


By John Eggerton]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/uncategorized-86/finding-more-wireless-spectrum-key-congressional-priority/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:07:40 +0000 RandomTask Comcast will try to keep local teams off satellite TV http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/business-tech-78/comcast-will-try-to-keep-local-teams-off-satellite-tv/
A day after the Federal Communications Comm...]]>
A day after the Federal Communications Commission closed the "terrestrial loophole" that keeps Comcast SportsNet off satellite TV, company executive David L. Cohen said Comcast would challenge the FCC action in an administrative process at the federal agency.

DirecTV and Dish Network still must show that Comcast's exclusive right to the Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers through Comcast SportsNet has hurt them competitively, which Cohen says is not a slam dunk. He spoke on WIP-AM (610) sports radio.

By Bob Fernandez ]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/business-tech-78/comcast-will-try-to-keep-local-teams-off-satellite-tv/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:40:43 +0000 RandomTask <![CDATA[How the FCC Will Promote Open Smart Grid Networks & Real Time Energy Data]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/uncategorized-86/how-the-fcc-will-promote-open-smart-grid-networks-real-time-energy-data/
Continued here]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/uncategorized-86/how-the-fcc-will-promote-open-smart-grid-networks-real-time-energy-data/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:39:04 +0000 RandomTask The War Between Apple and Google Has Just Begun http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/business-tech-78/the-war-between-apple-and-google-has-just-begun/ Consumers are witnessing the beginning of a new war between computer companies. Instead of the Apple-Microsoft conflict of the early 1980s, this fight...
The latest skirmish: BusinessWeek reported Wednesday that Apple was in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone’s Safari Web browser. The article said the two companies had been negotiating for weeks over a possible partnership on the iPhone.

Apple and Google weren’t always “frenemies.” The companies seemed to band together against any number of competitors, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile included, in 2007 when the iPhone was introduced with numerous Google applications tightly integrated, including Gmail, the Google search engine and Google Maps.

But the friendship turned sour last year during a conflict over the Google Voice application and Apple’s refusal to allow the software into the iTunes App Store.


By NICK BILTON]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/business-tech-78/the-war-between-apple-and-google-has-just-begun/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:36:18 +0000 RandomTask <![CDATA[Game developers warn FCC of "balkanized" Internet]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/internet-103/game-developers-warn-fcc-of-balkanized-internet/ A team of online game developers and boosters told the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday about worries that the big ISPs could fragment th...
"Software platform developers like Microsoft and Facebook pose less of a threat to innovation than infrastructure owners," one developer told the agency, according to notes of the meeting. He added that "if the Internet were balkanized, and developers had to negotiate separately with each ISP, that would be a substantial drag on innovation because it would divert resources from development."

The game makers included Asheron's Call producer Dan Scherlis, Jon Radoff of GamerDNA, Christopher Dyl of online world-maker Tubine, Matthew Bellows of voice chat developer Vivox, and Darius Kazemi of the International Game Developers Association. Kent Quirk also attended, speaking for himself and not his employer, Linden Lab.

By Matthew Lasar]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/internet-103/game-developers-warn-fcc-of-balkanized-internet/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:34:04 +0000 RandomTask Aid Urged for Groups Fighting Internet Censors http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/internet-103/aid-urged-for-groups-fighting-internet-censors/ Five United States senators are publicly urging Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to move faster to support organizations that are helping peo...
In a letter written by Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, and made public on Wednesday, the senators ask Mrs. Clinton to quickly spend $45 million that has been earmarked over the last two years to support Internet freedom but has not been spent.

By BRAD STONE]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/internet-103/aid-urged-for-groups-fighting-internet-censors/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:32:28 +0000 RandomTask Web Access Is New Clinton Doctrine http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/internet-103/web-access-is-new-clinton-doctrine/ Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the United States will make unrestricted access to the Internet a top foreign policy priority. In on...
Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal]]> http://community.elitemicrodevices.com/forum/internet-103/web-access-is-new-clinton-doctrine/ Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:16:14 +0000 RandomTask