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Several friends of mine used to debate at length “What is art?” — now that digital art, guerilla art, performance art, advertising collateral, and the blending of media have blurred the boundaries of what was once a clear-cut discipline. Art’s not just pure visual painting and sculpture any more that gets hung and revered on the walls of museums–more and more people are looking for art that’s interactive, conceptual, interested in the pop social experience, and blends a range of media. While traditionalists who hang paintings in museums might feel that these new art forms aren’t true art, new digital and interactive creations are still infused in our culture and experience, influencing our aesthetic tastes.

Jeff Clark of Neoformist is one such artist blurring the boundaries between programming, verbal, and visual art. Using a scripted algorithm he generates portraits of famous people and animals using an algorithm that creates words in the colors and patterns needed to create the portrait. Some examples feature a shot of Barack Obama created with the words “Yes We Can” and Albert Einstein with the word “Genius.” Very cool– go take a look.

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Digital Technology, Threatening Art and Culture One Form at A Time

Sales of RemoteSpy keylogger spyware have been halted at the request of the Federal Trade Commission.

The FTC filed a complaint against CyberSpy Software on November 5, “alleging the company has violated the FTC Act by selling software that can be deployed remotely by someone other than the owner or authorized user of a computer, can be installed without the owner’s knowledge, and can used to surreptitiously collect and disclose personal information,” says CNet News.

The FTC also claims CyberSpy unfairly collected and stored personal information gathered with RemoteSpy, says the story, going on:

In its complaint, the FTC asked the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division, to issue a temporary restraining order halting the sale of RemoteSpy while its case is pending, permanently ban the sale of RemoteSpy, and require CyberSpy to pay restitution for any injury to consumers resulting from its violations of the FTC Act.

The court, in its temporary restraining order filed November 6 against CyberSpy, said there is a “substantial likelihood” that the FTC will be able to prove the spyware maker violated the FTC Act.

The restraining order, “bars the company from disclosing or making available any information obtained through the software,” and orders CyberSpy to make sure associated sites, including www.remotespy.com, are not publicly accessible, says Cnet, adding:

“The FTC’s complaint names Tracer R. Spence, the registered agent and manager of CyberSpy, as liable for the charges against the spyware maker.”

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With so many spam hitting email users word wide, what is the best solution other than enforcing even more strict spam laws. Using a spam filtering service is the best solution now but which one?

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Spam Filtering Service - Are You Protected?

Keeping the Evil Stuff at Bay, is Easy If You Treat Your Guards with Care. We all know what email spam is, and anyone who spends more than a little time online, has gotten more than their share of the stuff. Far fewer of us, remember a day when spam was just a questionable luncheon meat byproduct.

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Turbo Charge Your Spam Filters

Most spammers get away with it because people do not know how easy it is to let them have it. It is time to blow the whistle instead of just hitting the delete button.

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Spam Law - What You Should Know About Spam Law

How much would you like to eliminate spam from your life? Most people hate spam emails. Here are a few suggestions for you.

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Eliminate Spam - You Can Save Valuable Time and Resources

Anti-spam filtering makes your life a little easier by filtering out spam emails by looking at where the email comes from as well as what words or links are within the email. It is not a rock solid science but it helps to stop spam.

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Using Anti-Spam Filtering to Stop Junk Mail

Starimp trojan spies on victim

Spy-Kill is a corrupt/rogue anti-spyware program that installs itself to your computer through a Trojan or web security holes. Spy Kill shows excessive popup ads and pushes to purchase the program. Do not trust such fraudulent advertisements! SpyKill is not anti-spyware program; it is computer parasite.

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Idicaf trojan is a dangerous one because it is capable of installing other computer parasites. Idicaf usually installs itself secretly without raising any suspicion and then it starts its malicious job. Idicaf may modify security settings on the compromised machine so that a user is not notified about actions made by the trojan. Idicaf installs other malwares. Those might be fake security tools, adware, malicious toolbars, trojans or other computer parasites. Idicaf is not a big security threat on its own, but it brings other malwares that can do much damage.

Idicaf spreads like the other trojans. It may use software vulnerabilities on online chats and it may hide on spam email or on a file from illegitimate software downloads website.

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