Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

Remedies Avoid infection If the initial dialog box is shown, disconnecting from the internet BEFORE closing it may prevent the download and any infection. Switching to a different browser rather than Internet Explorer may reduce vulnerability to this and other … Read More

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is “the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware.”[1] IT deals with the use of electronic computers … Read More

Non-Computational Approaches In the field of library science, language identification is important for categorizing materials. As librarians often have to categorize materials which are in languages they are not familiar with, they sometimes rely on tables of frequent words and … Read More

When facing two opponents, for any given starting hand the number of possible combinations of hands the opponents can have is (50/2)(48/2) = 1,381800 hands. For calculating probabilities we can ignore the distinction between the two opponents holding A♠ J♥ … Read More

A few spyware vendors, notably WhenU and 180 Solutions, have written what the New York Times has dubbed “stealware”, and what spyware-researcher Ben Edelman terms affiliate fraud, also known as click fraud. These redirect the payment of affiliate marketing revenues … Read More

Web development is a broad term for any activities related to developing a web site for the World Wide Web or an intranet. This can include e-commerce business development, web design, web content development, client-side/server-side coding, and web server configuration. … Read More

Copy of Alexander Graham Bell’s original telephone, at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Telecommunication is the technique of transmitting a message, from one point or place to another with the typical additional attribute of being bi-directional. In … Read More

A confidence trick, confidence game, also known as a con, scam, grift or flim flam, is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the “mark”) usually with the goal of financial or other gain.The confidence trickster, … Read More

The most common purpose for spamming is advertising. Goods commonly advertised in spam include pornography, unlicensed computer software, medical products such as Viagra, credit card accounts, and fad products. In part because of the bad reputation (and dubious legal status) … Read More

Asking advice Solicitarea unui sfat 1. I wish to invest ….in good securities which yield at least…., %. May I ask your advice? 2. I have done well out of… which I bought in …. on your advice. Should I … Read More

Photo finish of a greyhound race in Tampa, Florida, USA on February 9, 1939. Greyhound racing is the sport of racing greyhounds. The dogs chase a lure (an artificial hare or rabbit) on a track until they arrive at the … Read More

Spamdexing is the promotion of irrelevant, chiefly commercial, pages through deceptive techniques and the abuse of the search algorithms. Many search engine administrators consider any form of search engine optimization used to improve a website’s page rank as spamdexing. However, … Read More