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I have a Broadband connection in Hawaii and it is packaged with my Cable TV Service. I have always been pissed that I would have to pay an additional $10.00 per month for my cable modem service if I decided to drop the bundled TV Service and switch to Satellite. Well in a catch 22 it looks like AT&T is
What would you do if the end of the World was only 1 year away... Well I don't think you have to worry about it as a couple of scientist have figured out that the earth has about 500 Million years left. :) [ABC]
In a move that is going to hurt financially H&R Block and the makers of Turbo Tax the IRS is making available a website available with links to sites where people can file their taxes for free. I have used TurboTax on-line for the last couple of years and probably will do so again this year. If the IRS site
I have rarely agreed with things the ACLU has said but in a article on CNet they reference a study written by the ACLU that talks about personal privacy and how you are being watched tracked and cataloged at every turn. Good forward thinking for the ACLU. [Cnet News.com]
Most parents have had that gut sinking feeling when a small child becomes separated from the parent while you are either out in the community or the child has left the yard and god forbid kidnapped. Companies are starting to offer tracking devices that can be put on your child to quickly locate the child. I can imagine there are
My folks live in a rural area. So rural in fact that you could run around in the yard naked if you wanted to and so long as you did not go hang out by the road you probably would not be seen. Being they choose to live in the country they are stuck on dial-up as this is the
I never sell old hard drives. I probably have 25 of them laying around everything from 115 megs to 4 gigs. I use them for book-stops and various other geek uses. After all the 1.6 gig Maxtor I paid a $1000.00 dollars for not so many years ago sits on my desk and arouses interesting conversations on technology and where
There is more information being leaked out about the landmark agreement that the RIAA and Software/Consumer Product vendors hashed out. Unfortunately as we reported before they did not invite the MPAA so now you have a Goliath Versus Goliath battle that is already getting ugly. With the RIAA and their collaborators now pitted against MPAA legislative initiatives this could boil
Those of us that host our own servers should care and stay on top of security issues the above group has released a list along with a white paper that should make interesting reading. I would like some feedback on what you think of there list and of there initiatives. [www.owasp.org]
A group of hackers are meeting at MIT this Friday to put their collective thinking caps on and come up with a plan to bring the big guns of technology to bear on the spam problem. I wish them luck I just wonder how many actual spammers are going to attend the meeting. [Wired]
Spam we all get it we all hate it. Why does it keep flowing the answer is simple people respond to offers and buy merchandise. Unknowingly to the ignorant customer some of these sites are not securing the order information and their personal data is sitting in linked files all over the Internet. I am sure it will shock some
For about 2 weeks I have been working with my hosting provider to have my account moved to a new machine due to some performance issues. We were on a Windows server and had planned on staying on a Windows server. Well we ended up on a Unix server and had a mess on our hands. It did not help
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