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		<title>Virtual Servers Offer Power, Convenience, and Savings</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2013/virtual-servers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a full-service ISP, Southwest Cyberport offers a complete spectrum of web-publishing services from simple static webpages to highly complex, state-of-the-art interactive content managed sites. But there&#8217;s even more to it than that. At one end of the range are free personal webpages we offer to all our broadband and dial-up customers. At the high end are dedicated colocated webservers owned and operated by corporate clients that access the Internet directly from our secure, access controlled machine room. In between, SWCP offers web-hosting services in three different strengths: Starter, Basic, and Professional. But now, we are happy to offer a new upper tier of web-publishing service that gives the isolation and independence of private servers without the steep costs of owning and colocating hardware. A Virtual Private Server (VPS) here at SWCP balances convenience and cost to allow website owners and administrators to run their own web-publishing software just the way they want to. A virtual machine is software on a device that emulates the functions of an entire computer. This allows many virtual servers to run simultaneously on one &#8220;real&#8221; server, all hidden from each other. Less hardware is required, space is conserved, and resources are shared more efficiently than with purely dedicated servers. Virtualization is already common and is spreading quite rapidly through data centers particularly because of its usefulness in cloud computing. These economics make virtual servers much less expensive to operate than racks of dedicated devices &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2013/virtual-servers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Cyberwar the New Normal?</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2013/cyberwar-new-normal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet these days is often compared to the Wild West. It, too, is a wide open frontier with endless possibilities, loose rules, limited government controls and not a few rustlers and bandits lurking along its trails. But unlike other frontiers, the Net seems to steadily becoming more dangerous, not less. And there are now armies on the move. Hackers aren’t just computer whiz kids, online scam artists, or even criminal networks any more. Hacking has become a weapon of war. Stunning accusations in a recent report by Mandiant, a US online security firm, provide insights of just how persistent threats from government hackers working for certain enemy states have grown. The company has been investigating security breaches at hundreds of organizations around the world since 2004. Their tracking of threats has allowed them to identify more than 20 hacking groups within China. The largest of these, which they called APT1, for “Advanced Persistent Threat” has conducted vast hauls of information from hundreds of organizations since 2006. Madiant’s detective work on over 150 corporate victims for over 7 years paid off. They were able to identify APT1 as a unit of the People’s Liberation Army of China with a code designation of Unit 61398, precisely located its facilities in the middle of Shanghai, and even named three key developers. They watched APT1 compromise 141 companies in 20 industries, and studied in detail APT1’s sophisticated methodology – in one case, as &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2013/cyberwar-new-normal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Right to Internet Access</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2013/internet-access-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How essential is the Net? How vital is access to the Internet at all times? Does being cut off impair or maybe even threaten modern life? If you&#8217;re one of the many who would argue that yes, the ability to get online is absolutely basic to life, work, society, and entertainment, you&#8217;re not alone. And in a landmark ruling, the highest court in Germany agrees with you. Recently, the German Federal Supreme Court ruled that consumers can demand damages – financial compensation – for service outages. The case involved a suit by a man who lost his DSL connection for 2 months. For Germans, the decision places Internet access in the same small class of assets protected because they are necessary to survive and function in modern society. These  include homes, telephones, and automobiles. Consider that: loss of Internet access is deemed as big an inconvenience as losing a car! This means that sanctions denying access may not be applied. German Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said, &#8220;The judgment of the Federal Court shows that for an informed life, the network has become  fundamental. It is a realization that the use of the Internet is a civil right.&#8221; This is not the first time a government had declared Internet access is a basic human right. France was first to do so back in 2009. Finland went even further later that year when it declared it would provide each citizen with &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2013/internet-access-rights/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Albuquerque Journal Comes in for Some Ideas and Coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sunday Journal has discovered coworking. This new concept of independent freelancers, home-based workers, and entrepreneurs sharing office space and facilities which has appeared in town was recently explored in an interesting article in their &#8220;Office Hours&#8221; section. It&#8217;s now online at the Albuquerque Journal website. (Non-subscribers will have to answer a question before they can read the whole piece.) Prominently mentioned among other fine coworking spaces in town was SWCP&#8217;s entry into the field, Ideas and Coffee, conveniently located across the hall from our Uptown offices. It even mentions the free seminars offered every week on Internet, marketing, and other topics for people getting started and already involved. It&#8217;s a great way for home office workers and those looking for alternatives to meet, share stories, and learn. Check out the calendar of upcoming events, or sign up for email reminders and get out of the same old rut.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Google Getting Greedy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is known for frank speaking even when he says something unpopular. Recently, he was at it again, defending his company&#8217;s avoidance of British taxes. Documents show that the search giant earned £2.5 billion in UK sales last year but paid just £6 million in taxes. Google has also been revealed to have sheltered nearly $10 billion of its revenues in Bermuda allowing it to avoid some $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011. But Schmidt said such schemes were legitimate and the company paid taxes “in the legally prescribed ways”. “I am very proud of the structure that we set up. We did it based on the incentives that the governments offered us to operate,” he said. “It’s called capitalism. We are proudly capitalistic. I’m not confused about this.” He also said they would not be following Starbucks in voluntarily handing more money over to the UK Government. Google has also announced it will now charge small business users for using some formerly free Web-based services, such as text-editing, spreadsheets and even Gmail. It will charge the more than 5 million businesses with 10 employees that use the services $50 per user per year in America, £33 in Britain. It says by doing so it would be able to provide better support to businesses, such as 24/7 tech support and larger in-boxes. Though there will be no charge for individuals, this is a significant &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/google-getting-greedy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Goes Interplanetary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Future space explorers, both robotic and human, now have a new way to communicate with each other – by the Internet. While email has been used for some time from low Earth orbit, and astronauts have even posted to Facebook and Twitter, the actual connections utilize the standard radio point-to-point links that have been used all along. For modern fleets exploring space, which include far-flung satellites, spacecraft, rovers and maybe bases someday, this is insufficient, just as the traditional Internet would be. Point-to-point creates a single line of communication between two stations, such as ground control and say, a satellite circling Mars. Another such direct connection can create a line of communication between the ground and a rover on the planet. But the rover can’t communicate directly with the satellite. The network only goes through ground control. An “Internet-like” connection changes all that. Then, everything could talk with everything else – or it could except for the distance. The problem with installing the Net on such widely separated systems is that unlike communications in science fiction, radio waves move at the speed of light. The Enterprise can call Starfleet Command every time they run into the Klingons, but real spaceships anywhere beyond the Earth-Moon system will not find it so easy. While it’s only 1.25 seconds for a message to get from Earth to the Moon, to Mars it ranges from over 4 minutes to over 20. And that’s just &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/interplanetary-internet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing SnackReads Bite-size Entertainment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southwest Cyberport is proud to be a full-service ISP and aspire to be even more. We’ve recently opened adjacent office space as Ideas and Coffee, a coworking facility that’s a friendly alternative to coffee shops for quiet online work or meeting clients and colleagues. And now, SWCP’s getting into the online publishing business with SnackReads. As longtime readers of genre fiction, many staff members have greatly enjoyed shorter works as well as novels. But with the decline of magazines and anthologies, short pieces are getting shafted. They’re becoming harder to find even as ereaders and tablets create more opportunities for enjoying them than ever before. So when Josh Gentry, one of our talented network administrators and now director of the project, came up with the idea of SnackReads, we jumped at the chance. SnackReads are short, enjoyable tales that are perfect for unwinding after a long day or while waiting for an appointment, during breaks, riding the RailRunner, etc. They’re quick, easy fun that won’t keep you up at night, and inexpensive, too – less than $2 each. All are offered in several convenient formats and there’s no DRM: once you buy it, it’s yours. Our goal is not just to help readers but writers, too. There are many great once-published stories now gathering dust in their files that deserve a second chance. So we’re hoping to uncover some real gems. We’ve started off strong with a great space-opera story &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/intro-snackreads/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The 3D Replicator Revolution Is Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the world has been suffering through the Great Recession and many still worry about all the manufacturing jobs lost overseas, the next industrial revolution was quietly launched in garages, basements, and labs right here at home. This new method of producing goods will cause greater changes and more social upheaval than anything since Henry Ford started up his assembly line. This new technology is called 3D printing and it will change how we make everything from what we wear and what we eat to the vehicles we drive and the jobs we perform. 3D printing will give the average person the freedom of expression and specialty crafted goods which was once the exclusive realm of royalty and the super-rich. Not just in the abundance of “bespoke” objects available as customized products or reproductions of rare artworks, either, but in terms of the sheer variety of things also. The ability to render mathematical expressions in solid form gives designers, engineers, and architects a tool of incredible power. Since the 1980s, expensive professional devices have been able to prototype new gadgets. But the tech is now finally poised to enter the consumer market. 3D printing is, of course, the latest step in the digitization of the world. It may be helpful in imagining the effects of this new way of doing things by recalling how digital 2D printing altered everything. Before the invention of the personal computer, printing was an established &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/3d-printing-revolution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Hazards of Abandoning a Domain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happens all the time: you click on a link and the website that comes up is not what you expected. If you&#8217;re lucky, the page is simply gone, but the site may look oddly similar and contain links for the subject you&#8217;re interested in, or it may be a trap bristling with malware and spam. In any case, you probably shrug and move on, pausing briefly to delete the bookmark if there is one, but you likely don&#8217;t spend much time wondering what happened. What happened is that the website owner quit. Maybe she or he died, or their lives and interests changed, or the company went broke. Possibly the owner just forgot to renew the domain registration. Whatever the cause, abandoned domains rarely just die quietly forgotten any more. Usually they are snapped up even if they are not high-traffic, popular sites, often by a domain registrar hoping to cash in on, but increasingly by people with worse intentions in mind. Not long ago, it was not uncommon for websites of churches, schools and government institutions that had lapsed to be grabbed up by Web porn purveyors. They may have done it more for the shock value rather than to make money, but in more recent times even more sinister characters have been doing much the same. Nowadays, an abandoned website may present an irresistible temptation to hackers and spammers to walk in and take over. However, unlike &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/abandoning-domain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Both Ignite and Word Camp 2012 were great!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignite New Mexico, and WordCamp Albuquerque were great local events! Read more about them. <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/word-camp-2012-was-great/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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