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Consumers Know It's Spam But Click On It Anyway

Consumers Know It's Spam But Click On It Anyway

Consumers continue to click on spam despite awareness of how bots and viruses spread through risky email behavior, according to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). Their findings were…
WikiLeaks: The Price of Freedom of Information

WikiLeaks: The Price of Freedom of Information

"Wikileaks.org was founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and technologists from the United States, China, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Its Web site became…
Elizabeth Taylor Polythene?

Elizabeth Taylor Polythene?

I have an issue with the ladies of Hollywood. As a scientist, I find diamond a most useful material, and the way these glitterate use these stones for personal adornment does, I think, only serve to…
User-interface follies

User-interface follies

In days of old, when knights were bold, and they kept their data on large reels of magnetic tape, the tapes were stored in a central tape library, and were mounted by request on mainframe computers…
Zimmer on Science News Consumption

Zimmer on Science News Consumption

Earlier this week Zimmer asked readers to help out science journalists and participate in a survey about where we get our science news. He's got the results up. You can go see for yourself what…