"Godfather Spam" was sentenced to 51 Months Jail

An actor named Alan spread spam Ralsky (64) who dubbed himself the "Godfather of Spam" was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment and a fine of 250,000 U.S. dollars. He proved jointly conspiring to conduct activities detrimental spamming and using illegal methods.

Ralsky is one the spammers veteran who pioneered the use of a botnet or malware planted on various computer networks to distribute spam. This is the most powerful way to spread spam, but not infrequently causing big losses for the users of the Internet because the information disseminated containing fraud.

"The sentences handed down today to the person who claims himself as the Godfather of Spam, Alan Ralsky, and three others who became the main actors with complex spam scheme offering a" pump and dump ", the court ensures that the theft by abusing the internet will end penalty several years in prison, "the statement Terrence Berg, the Eastern District of Michigan prosecutor said in a statement as reported by PC World.

In the action, conspiracy, aided Ralsky three people sent emails to promote stock-abal abal but with the lure of the false information. When prices rise, the stock will be released with a high price and then allowed to fall. Email spam is sent to the botnet network that spread everywhere so difficult to detect origin. Also spammers forge email headers, poxy computer, domain name, and making false advertising. Ralsky and his accomplice acts first diendus by Microsoft's Internet Safety Enforcement Team in 2004.
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YouTube Recommend Automatic Text Translation

YouTube memeperkenalkan new feature that displays the text of all the conversations in the videos automatically. One of the benefits of this feature to meet the needs of visitors deaf (deaf mute) in order to enjoy the full video.

Text translation to be done with voice recognition technology is now used in Google Voice management services. In its announcement Thursday (19/11) yesterday, Google said the feature will begin to apply this week.

However, for the new will be done on the videos of some of the canal from partners like PBS, National Geographic, and several prominent universities. Google promises to text translator's voice will be applied in the entire video with voice recognition technology improvements are developed.

Hundreds of thousands of videos that appear on YouTube today is already equipped with the text through the service provided. However, to use it must be done manually by the user and added myself to the body of the video. With the number of the incoming video, the current average of 20 hours of video every minute, most of the videos that appear on YouTube has no text.

Even so, Google has updated the manual translation feature that is now with auto timing menu. Users simply make a text file containing the text of all conversations in the video and sound machine translation will match it to appear. Such a move is expected to boost the amount of video that has text.
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This breakthrough Google Chrome OS

Although not the first, Chrome the OS that was carried by Google as a milestone in the rise of web-based operating systems. In its official blog, Google's developers call Chrome the OS with a base of open source operating system for all people who spent almost all his time on the internet.

"With Chrome OS, every application is a web application," said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management for Google in a press conference in Mountain View, California, USA, Thursday (19/11). So, Chrome OS will not run local applications such as PC operating systems generally. All documents and data is also stored on Internet servers.

This was a key breakthrough that do Chrome OS. All activities carried out by the browser and there is no conventional desktop applications. This means that users do not need ribet to install, manage, and update itself.

The second breakthrough that will be Google in Chrome the OS is a matter of security. Because all roads in the web application, users do not need to think about whether the application is to be trusted or not. Each completed application sandbox (such secret keys) are unique, making it hard malware infects a computer. The operating system will also check and recovery each time you reboot.

In addition, the speed is also an obsession Google in Chrome the OS. Computing processes that do not need to be removed, each operation is optimized and performed in parallel. Accelerating time booting one target with a combination of optimal hardware specifications. "It took seven seconds for the Chrome OS to boot," Pichai said.

Sola application performance should not worry because it runs on Chrome browser that supports HTML5 standard and JavaScript engines that are claimed currently capable of executing Java code to 39 times Internet Explorer 8.

"We want to work very fast, fun system to use. We want you to press the button on to turn it on immediately and quickly surf the web as soon as possible," said Matt Papakipos, technical director of Chrome the OS.
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