The Week’s Tidbits (and some Friday Fun)

Regular readers of this series have come to learn over time that I prefer Fridays over Mondays …

A few brief items of interest for you today (help get you through to Quittin’ Time).

• Apple: made in China, untaxed profits kept offshore

“About two-thirds of Apple’s $97.6 billion cash pile is off shore. That’s a lot of money for an American company to keep outside of America.” Read more..

• Major Symantec breach highlights risks of running old software

“Symantec says it has fewer than 50,000 users of pcAnywhere, a remote-access program that has been around for decades. It now says, for safety’s sake, those users should pull the plug. Immediately.” Read more..

• The Internet and piracy are here to stay

“Will killing media piracy destroy the Internet? Is it even possible to stop piracy?” Read more..

{Finally! The right questions.}

• Microsoft Says Ex-Antivirus Maker Ran Botnet

“The Russian software engineer has been added to a federal complaint that claims the the defendant operated the Kelihos botnet taken down last September.” Read more..

• Study: BlackHole appears, Conficker remains

“Eighty-five percent of all malware is web-based, and some 30,000 websites are newly infected with malicious code each day, according to Sophos’ “Security Threat Report 2012.” Read more..

Alright. Enough of that depressing stuff. I need a grin…
Recently, rather inadvertently, I think, squirrels have been mentioned on this site.

No. Not some new tech gadget.
Squirrels. Like.. in the tree, squirrel?

A reader sent me this video of a different kind of ‘tech’, and a frustrated little guy..

“Squirrel baffle”.

Love that term.

What are the chances this strategy will pay off?

Um.. er.. 0.000001%?
(Yet, obviously, some *people* think it’s a good plan, and keep spamming me. CAN-SPAM Act or no..)

Today’s quote: “A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.” ~ Bob Edwards

Yawl have a great weekend, ya’ hear?

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Zoosk.com???? Who thought up that name?

Wow.
That’s almost as silly a word as “google”..

Microsoft Support Outage? Anyone else notice a problem with support.microsoft.com?

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