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Russian jurisdiction and the russian law gives them the right to look at your e-mail, internet traffic or communications and your cellphone traffic as well. so you have to be cautious of that if you're passing information as well. hacking in russia is nothing new. if you remember when the internet first came around, a lot of cyber crime, a lot of hacking originated from russia. things have changed now and the state department is warning more about the issue of government surveillan surveillance. of course, critics of the u.s. would say, the nsa is their own. but talking about here is perhaps b...

Selling? well we decided to find out. [ screaming ] do you remember laughing with this? feeling really uncomfortable during this or rooting for this adorable little kid? you know you liked watching them but do you even remember what those commercials were for? believe it or not despite all the buzz a recent study shows 80% of those ads don't make people buy the stuff they are selling. so why are companies spending big bucks on ads year after year? >> they do it because if it is successful the game is tremendous. >> reporter: some experts say the super bowl ad craze started 30 years ago when st...

Society in go, orwell's society "1984." >> apple saw a huge spike in macintosh sales. that was the benchmark and is still the benchmark today that people use to decide whether or not a super bowl ad is effective. >> reporter: that ad costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce. since then the cost from duce and air commercials has skyrocketed. in the past decade "forbes" magazine said money spent on advertising in the super bowl has doubled from $150 million to more than $300 million because it's one of the few tv events of the year as evidently dvr proof. >> we don't want to show up the...

The weekend. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you very much. have a great weekend. >> coming up on this friday, veterans affairs already having a hard time paying benefits on time. now there is a plan to add even more to their plate. what every veteran needs to know, the captain is reporting for duty next. but first on this date in 1935, the first canned beer went on sale. >> changed our lives. >> in 1984, apple debuted the first macintosh computer. and in 1993, whitney houston had the number one song in america -- >> i used to sing only in the shower. >> "i will always love you." ♪ ♪ packed wi...

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. but ten years later, when we were designing the first macintosh computer, it all came back to me and we designed it all into the mac. it was the first computer with beautiful typography. >> i love that jobs' bit because it's an explanation of the pragmatic things. >> yeah, but is everybody going to be steve jobs? i mean, i feel like it is a beautiful piece of tape and it's admirable, but he's exceptional, right? >> he's exceptional, but it is to me, it hones on the fact that you cannot predict what you're going to do, a, in ...