I know so many people who would jump at this…. This is disturbing. Dear <removed> Bank Customer, CONGRATULATIONS! You have been chosen by the <removed> Bank online department to take part in our quick and easy 5 question survey. In return we will credit $20 to your account – Just for your…
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This is an interesting opinion piece. I kind of think of the Bank of America commercial where the CTO or CIO says their goal is not to get right almost every time but to get it right once and replicate it every time. Wired News: Why Data Mining Won’t Stop Terror Let’s look at some…
About time… Now FL, its your turn! Maryland House votes to oust Diebold machines – Computerworld The state of Maryland stands poised to put its entire $90 million investment in Diebold Election Systems Inc. touch-screen e-voting systems on ice because they can’t produce paper receipts. The state House of Delegates this week voted 137-0 to…
Google Agrees to Settle ‘Click Fraud’ Case – Yahoo! News Mountain View, Calif.-based Google makes virtually all of its money from text-based advertising links that trigger commissions each time they are clicked on. Besides enriching Google, the system has been a boon for advertisers, whose sales have been boosted by an increased traffic from prospective…
Pretty good article which mentions a mainstay of the WWWAC lists, John Haller. Portable apps get a thumbs-up — Newsday.com [John] Haller … is involved in an industry initiative that’s being supported by most major USB drive manufacturers under the rubric of U3. U3 is for pen/USB drives only, but it incorporates additional user-friendly features:…
My new toy. I copied over all my stuff from my work desktop. No, I didn’t get it from Buy.com. I got it from Best Buy of all places for $3 more. I previously had ordered a 300GB drive from NewEgg to put in an enclosure I have, but their ordering stuff didn’t work for…
This makes me think. Not sure I really agree or disagree. PostSecret (PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.)
This article has sat in the back of my mind for quite a while. It is one the major reasons I use Bloglines. I doubt we are being inundated by them. One can always hope…. Boing Boing: Badly behaved RSS readers gobble bandwidth Glenn Fleishman has posted some analysis of the impact of RSS aggregators…