why can't we put this topic to rest? seriously, anyone who connects an any box directly to any network in today's landscape without atleast a hardware/software firewall, anti virus and their os upgraded to the latest rev is asking for trouble. i just find it amazing that i spend somewhere around 8 hours a day connected with a winxp box and have NEVER had a virus, worm, been a zombie, etc. either i'm incredibly lucky (not) or i have the where withall not to go to every porn or russian software site in the first four minutes of setting up a box. whatever...
CBS News Sunday Morning ran a piece today on BuzzMetrics http://www.buzzmetrics.com/, a data mining company that uses Google, among other tools surely, to dig through blogs, forums, etc. to find out what people are saying about particular companies or products. It was interesting that their analysts' job included not only the data mining but helping their customers make sense of the way they said it for incorporation into their marketing campaigns.
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why can't we put this topic to rest? seriously, anyone who connects an any box directly to any network in today's landscape without atleast a hardware/software firewall, anti virus and their os upgraded to the latest rev is asking for trouble. i just find it amazing that i spend somewhere around 8 hours a day connected with a winxp box and have NEVER had a virus, worm, been a zombie, etc. either i'm incredibly lucky (not) or i have the where withall not to go to every porn or russian software site in the first four minutes of setting up a box. whatever...
CBS News Sunday Morning ran a piece today on BuzzMetrics http://www.buzzmetrics.com/, a data mining company that uses Google, among other tools surely, to dig through blogs, forums, etc. to find out what people are saying about particular companies or products. It was interesting that their analysts' job included not only the data mining but helping their customers make sense of the way they said it for incorporation into their marketing campaigns.