Email Spoofing: Explained (and How to Protect Yourself)
Recently a co-worker asked me “Why do people even bother to spoof my email address?” First, for those of you joining me that have no idea what the term spoofing…
read moreShattered Family Values
The advent of technology, factories and industry changed not only our economy but also our families and what they meant to us. No longer do we take care of our parents. It is now accepted to allow a stranger to come into our house to spend time with our children and affect them educationally, psychologically, and emotionally while we (the society) work.
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MMOs and MMORG — Control Your Kids Online Gaming
I have a strict policy in my house. No MMO games, or rather — no MMOs that are actually enabled online. I know, some of you parents and grandparents are…
read moreRe-runs Back Into The 1970’s and 1980’s
This morning I was making breakfast for my children humming the theme to The Fall Guy. My son asked me what the song was and I said “It’s from an…
read moreHow to Enable Parental Controls for iOS7, Wii U, 3DS and PlayStation 4
Tis the season for giving technology gifts and with that comes parental responsibility. Here are some tips on how to lock down technology for your children.
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Decompiling the Mind of a Child Predator
Why do so many engage in such sexually-deviant, damaging behavior? Are they miss-wired? Are they lonely and feel that it’s easier to overpower a child than to attain the natural affection of another adult? Or is it something deeper in the psychology that I just wasn’t seeing?
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I.T. by Day, Author by Night
“What makes you think that a Network Administrator can write a novel?” a friend asked me a couple years ago, well, an ex-friend. Any friend that doesn’t support your ideas isn’t a friend in my opinion.
However, it’s a good question. The truth is, I suppose any Network Administrator out there may not be able to, but this Network Administrator was going to do it, regardless of what people said.
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How to Handle Your Child’s Social Media Disaster
What happens when your child has been abducted by a predator and you don’t know who the predator is or where to look?
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Your Child: A Sheep Among the Wolves
I’m not talking about drugs, porn, sex or anything of the sort — this can all be discussed and handled. The greatest dangers lurk in the idle activities children engage in while reaching out to peers stemming from the need to connect.
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Your Call is So Important to Us, We’d Rather a Computer Answer
I called Amazon.com yesterday, got a nice enough woman in the Philippines who did her best to help but she ended up transferring me to an automated system where I had to leave a message into the black hole of technology.
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