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Getting my first VCR was Very Cool, Really

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I remember getting my first VCR as clearly as I do my first bicycle … and my memory of the latter has the unfair advantage of having been captured on 18-mm film by my father. (I recently rescued the film, camera, projector and tri-pod projection screen from my Dad’s house before his move into assisted living. Someday my kids will get an old-school viewing.)

As for that first VCR, it arrived in the early 1980s and was a transformative acquisition: For the first time, I was able to watch full-length, unedited, uncensored Hollywood movies at home without commercials. Taken for granted in this age of on-demand and Neflix, it was an amazing advancement at the time.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Kaspersky: ‘A very bad incident’ awaits critical infrastructure

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Cyber-terrorism attacks against power grids, water supply systems, chemical plants and other critical infrastructure loom as a threat that could become harsh reality before slow-moving agencies act to secure them better, says the head of Kaspersky Lab.

Organizations that run these facilities using supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) gear are still gathering data about threats and aren’t close to implementing new defenses to counter them, says Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of the company.

Eugene Kaspersky

Eugene Kaspersky

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Network World Tim Greene

8 lesser known, but very useful, Apple Mac utilities

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Apple plans to increase iCloud security measures following recent celebrity hack scandal Your Mac comes with a bunch of Apps pre-installed, neatly organized in the Applications folder. You’ve got the iWork suite, AddressBook, iCal and some other useful …
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Your privacy is ‘very important’ says Microsoft after reading user’s emails and IMs

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After twice hacking Microsoft and vowing to publish proof of Microsoft “spying” on email accounts and selling user data to Johnny Law Officer, the Syrian Electronic Army went public with monthly invoices showing what Microsoft charges the FBI for user data.
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