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Homeland Security Can Snatch Your Laptop at the Border, No Questions Asked [Security]
Better flush your porn transfer folder before heading home from Tijuana, guys, because the DHS can and will find it, according to a report by the Washington Post. They also have permission to take...
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Single Out A Home To Purchase In Coral Springs Real Estate Using The Internet
Purchasing a home in Coral Springs real estate is a perfect investment for any homebuyers looking for a property call their own. If you want to speed up the acquisition process, then you might need to forgo the basic forms of property lookup and resort to the Internet to give you what you want.
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Airport Security Can Seize Your Laptop
A report acknowledges that TSA agents have authority to confiscate travelers' laptops and review data.
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Don't forget to enter our Sky Bet Tipster Challenge for August - with a fantastic trip for four to a top race meeting up for grabs. Our competition gives you the chance to win the star prize by pitting your wits against other internet tipsters.
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The Reports of Usenet’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated
Sascha at PCMag writes a charming little piece on the death of Usenet as a method of discourse and its eventual rebirth as a repository for porn, spam, and pirated warez. He recalls the days of “serious conversations” on 8-bit Atari architecture and the rise and fall of net.manners as more and more n00bs came [...]
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Recent Original Stories
"OpenSUSE has been driving innovation on the Linux desktop, and in today's serial we'll be discovering just what has been happening on the GNOME front.
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Press Group Plans Online Olympic Demonstration
A press freedom organization is planning to stage a virtual protest just before the Olympic opening ceremonies.
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Apple Security Update Patches Critical DNS Flaw
Apple on Thursday patched a critical DNS (Domain Name Server) flaw.
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Apple Finally Patches Dangerous DNS Flaw
Apple has at last issued a patch for the DNS (Domain Name System) flaw considered one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities to ever affect the Internet.
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Ron Fournier named chief of AP’s Washington bureau
(AP) WASHINGTON - Ron Fournier, a former White House correspondent, national political writer and online political editor for The Associated Press, has been named chief of the AP’s Washington bureau.
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Tardy Apple finally releases DNS patch
Cache from chaos Apple has finally gotten around to defending against a high-profile Domain Name System flaw, days after security researchers called it out for dragging its heels on releasing a patch.…
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Hackers may have taken UT-Dallas personal data
Friday, August 01, 2008 at 10:58 a.m. DALLAS, TEXAS (AP) -- Computer hackers may have accessed Social Security numbers and other personal data for 9,100 people connected to the University of Texas at Dallas, the school's second such case in recent years.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 25th Sep 2006 05:31 UTC
In the latest study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, over 700 technology experts were asked to evaluate an assortment of scenarios in an attempt to determine potential trends for the year 2020. With responses from representatives of the World Wide Web Consortium, ICANN, the Association of Internet Researchers, and major corporations like Google and IBM, the report ...
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US elections: John McCain and Barack Obama launch web war of words in wake of 'celebrity' ad
In an effort to draw further mocking parallels between Barack Obama and a parade of Hollywood celebrities, the Republican party today launched a website that offers up quotations and tempts readers to guess whether Obama or a starlet uttered a phrase: whosaiditcelebrityedition.com
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MochaHost.com – offers unlimited sites and bandwidth
All Shared Web hosting packages now come standard with: unlimited MySQL/FTP/Email accounts, unlimited subdomains, as well as, updated bandwidth and disk space.
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Microsoft has released a public beta 2 for Office 2007 , and it is now available for download or by mail for anyone that wants to eveluate it.
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IBM counters Microsoft's software seat-stealing boast
IBM/Lotus Thursday hit back at Microsoft's boast that it plans to steal 5 million Notes customers this year by detailing a new 300,000-seat licensing deal with an Asian company and strong interest in Notes from emerging markets.
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Feds can seize travelers' electronics, more
As of July 16, US federal agents have the power to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for however long they want, says a Friday report. The seizures do not require a suspicion of wrongdoing, and are aimed to counter terrorism, with the new policies passed by two Department of Homeland Security agencies...
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Linux may soon have a stronger open-source competitor on the desktop if FreeBSD's plans come to fruition. FreeBSD developer Scott Long told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the operating system, descended from the Unix derivative BSD, is "quickly approaching" feature parity with Linux . "Lots of work is going on to make FreeBSD more friendly on the desktop," Long said.
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Apps we love
Getting rid of applications we no longer love and getting a handle on the drivers in Windows
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Attempted Identity fraud investigated by Lower Paxton Township police
Lower Paxton Twp. police are investigating an attempted identity theft/fraud incident earlier this week at Circuit City on Jonestown Road. About 7 p.m. Wednesday, a man with a Maryland driver's license tried to buy four laptop computers, valued at about $1,500 each, with a credit card.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Jul 2006 21:26 UTC
People say I rant too much. I complain and complain, but never seem to really like anything. As I promised a few weeks ago, I will talk about things I love about computers.
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Study: More U.S. Hispanics on Web
NEW YORK The growth of the U.S. Hispanic population on the Internet in recent years has accelerated faster than previously expected.
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Microsoft cleared the air July 5 on its obligations to GNU General Public License Version 3 support, declaring it will not provide support or updates for GPLv3 under the deal it penned in November with Novell to administer certificates for the Linux distribution.
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