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July 9, 2012 at 1:56 pm · Filed under American Capitalism, Assclowns, Big Brother, Bullshit, Computing, Educational, Feedback, Free, Game Play, Interactive, Internet, Propaganda, Suggestions, Website and tagged: Facebook, Firefox, Privacy, Social Networking

Is Facebook going to eventually get you killed?
People commonly recommend that you log out of Facebook in order to protect your privacy, but that’s simply not enough. Read the rest of this entry »
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March 7, 2012 at 11:01 am · Filed under CHINA® Syndrome, Computing, Hi-Tech, Interactive, Internet, Lifestyle, MOBILE, NEW!, Performance, Poetry, Previewz, Propaganda, Sciense, Upcoming Shows, Web News and tagged: Apple, iPad

Will Apple ever show these product announcements live on the web?
Live blogging of the Apple event will begin at 1 p.m., East Coast time. The announcement is expected to focus mostly on a new iPad, but there could be something new with Apple TV.
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January 15, 2012 at 6:16 pm · Filed under BEST of the Web, Educational, England, Fundies, History, Musings™, Strange News and tagged: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Paleobotany, science

The fossil plants are polished into thin, translucent sheets
The fossils, lost for some 165 years, were found by chance in the vaults of the British Geological Survey HQ near Keyworth, UK.
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July 28, 2011 at 2:59 pm · Filed under Computing, Game Play, Internet, LOW Tech, U.S.A. and tagged: bogus, Criminals, cyber, scam, virus, windows

The scam involves conning Windows users into granting remote access to their PCs, upon which scammers will look for sensitive personal data
IT experts are warning Windows users to remain vigilant following news of a new telephone scam being operated by cyber criminals. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 25, 2011 at 2:24 pm · Filed under Computing, Consumption, Hi-Tech, MOBILE, Short & Sweet and tagged: Business and Economy, Instant messaging, Mobile Computing, Mobile phone, Multimedia Messaging Service, Short Messaging Service, SMS

Traffic is expected to break 8 trillion in 2011
Among mobile messaging services, SMS has consistently claimed the top spot. With its widespread reach to virtually all mobile subscribers, SMS has long been the most popular messaging service and has helped MNOs significantly offset the effect of falling voice revenues. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 30, 2011 at 10:56 am · Filed under Anonymous®, Big Brother, Bullshit, CHINA® Syndrome, Computing, Free, Game Play, Gun-Play, Hi-Tech, Internet, MOBILE, Politically Correct, Propaganda, Strange News, Web News and tagged: 1984, Denmark, Fascism, Internet access, Wireless network

Under the rubric of fighting terrorism, Danish police have proposed abolishing all anonymous Internet access. ISPs and companies would be required to gather strong proof of identity – official ID cards etc.
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June 28, 2011 at 1:06 am · Filed under American Capitalism, Computing, Hi-Tech, Interactive, Internet, Lifestyle, Socialism, U.S.A., Web News and tagged: Facebook, Google, Social network

Google+ has been released for use by a small, selected number of users
Online search giant Google has launched a new social networking website in its latest attempt to take on Facebook, which now claims more than 500 million users!
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March 31, 2011 at 1:41 pm · Filed under England, Hi-Tech, Lifestyle, MOBILE, Musings™, Our Planet, Poverty, Quickies, SPECIAL Event, TravelTime®, U.K., U.S.A., Video and tagged: Branson, Space tourism, technology, The Final Frontier

These spaceships will fly up to 360,000 feet
“Seeing a new vehicle that will someday be taking commercial passengers into space, and allowing the population at large to experience space travel, is just tremendously exciting.” – Galactic Spaceship Test pilot Peter Siebold
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January 29, 2011 at 11:30 pm · Filed under ACTivism, Arabian Knights™, Bullshit, CHINA® Syndrome, Computing, Democra-see?, Educational, Feedback, Free, Freedom of Speech, Gun-Play, Healthy Living, History, Interactive, Internet, Lifestyle, LOW Tech, MOBILE, NEW!, Politically INcorrect, Poverty, Sad Newz, SHOCKED & AWED, Sunday Series® and tagged: Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Internet service provider

About a half-hour past midnight Friday morning in Egypt, the Internet went dead.
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January 5, 2011 at 1:58 pm · Filed under ACTivism, American Capitalism, anti-american, Big Brother, Bullshit, Free, Hard Targets, Internet, LOW Tech, Politically Correct, Propaganda, Sad Newz, SPECIAL Event, U.S.A., Web News and tagged: Domain name, Domain Name System, ICANN

Should the Internet be controlled by the government? Or can former backers of The Pirate Bay circumvent law enforcement efforts to sheriff the Net and instead come up with an open and secure P2P DNS alternative system?
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January 4, 2011 at 1:58 pm · Filed under Big Brother, Bullshit, Commie Bastards, Democra-see?, Educational, Free, Freedom of Speech, Game Play, Gun-Play, Hack THIS !!, Internet, LOW Tech, Politickz, Propaganda, SHOCKED & AWED, U.S.A., Upcoming Shows, Web News, WORLD NEWS and tagged: CONTROL, Electronic Frontier Foundation, YouTUBE

In 2010, the U.S. government shut down more than 70 websites, in one the broadest actions yet against companies it only suspects of selling America’s counterfeit or pirated products.
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January 3, 2011 at 1:59 am · Filed under Computing, Educational, Feedback, Game Play, Guest Author, Hard Targets, Hi-Tech, Interactive, Internet, MOBILE, Politickz, Poll, U.K., U.S.A. and tagged: Cyberwarfare, Data security, London School of Economics

The law frowns on cyber attacks but Black Hat speakers advocate exploiting vulnerabilities in attack tools and botnets against attackers
Should revenge assaults be just another security tool large IT shops use to counter cyber attacks?
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April 18, 2010 at 12:39 am · Filed under Computing, Dug Up, Game Play, Hi-Tech, Humor Me, Lifes' like That, MOBILE, Musings™, NEW!, Previewz, Strange News, Sunday Series® and tagged: But Steve - I have a wife and kidz!

Someone is FIRED!
On March 18, a young Apple (AAPL) engineer had a few too many drinks at a beer garden in Redwood City, Calif., and left his cellphone behind on a bar stool. A customer picked it up, saw that it looked like an iPhone, located the Facebook app and found the owner’s profile page (since removed). According to this customer, he tried to contact Apple but all he got for his trouble was a case number. By the next morning, the phone was dead — disabled remotely.
Meanwhile, he’s looked more closely at the device and discovered that underneath what looks like an ordinary iPhone is something quite different. For one thing, it has two cameras — one on the front and one on the back. He breaks open the outer case and finds the device shown at right.
This is where the story gets a little shady.
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March 8, 2010 at 12:00 am · Filed under ACTivism, BEST of the Web, Big Brother, Computing, Democra-see?, Educational, Feedback, Freedom of Speech, Hi-Tech, Interactive, Internet, Lifestyle, MOBILE, Poll, Socialism, Strange News, U.K., Web News, WORLD NEWS and tagged: World Wide Web

Click Photo for BBC website
Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
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