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Thai Premier Spams Nation, Prompts Consumer Outcry
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mash 621 days ago
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patiwat writes "Newly installed Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's first act was to send a spam SMS to tens of millions of Thai cell phone subscribers. The message, signed 'Your PM,' urged people to help him solve the Thai political crisis and respond with their postal code at a charge of 3 baht (10 US cents). The new premier was criticized for violating privacy regulations."
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How Do You Monitor Documents?
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mash 621 days ago
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JumpDrive writes "I have been presented with a problem recently, which I know others have probably faced. During the last month, one of our customers accused us of providing another customer with their specification. So the question arose: how do we, or can we trace documents and find if they are being opened or used somewhere where they weren't intended. We don't want to be restrictive, because at times, we have people all over the place, but if one of our documents were opened in a foreign co
Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS
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mash 621 days ago
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thefickler writes "The last major supplier of VHS videotapes is ditching the format in favor of DVD, effectively killing the format for good. This uncharitable commentator has this to say: 'Will VHS be missed? Not ... with videos being brittle, clunky, and rather user-unfriendly. But they ushered in a new era that was important to get to where we are today. And for that reason, the death of VHS is rather sad. Almost as sad as the people still using it.'" At least my dad's got the blank-tape mar
10 things that won't survive the recession
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kiray 622 days ago
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10 things that won't survive the recession
Things I Hate: Video That Auto-plays
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kiray 622 days ago
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Things I Hate: Video That Auto-plays
Quicken 2007 For Mac Lacks EV Cert Support
Posted by
mash 623 days ago
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adamengst writes "If your bank uses the Extended Validation certificates that require a higher level of identity checking on the certificate authority's part (as at least one Seattle bank does), you may not be able to download transactions using the Mac version of Quicken. Quicken doesn't gracefully ignore extra information in EV certificates as older Web browsers do, but instead throws an error and refuses to download transactions. Intuit says they're working on a fix — but users may hav
Yeah Just Make sure you Ground yourself and you'll be safe. [PIC]
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kiray 623 days ago
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Yeah Just Make sure you Ground yourself and you'll be safe. [PIC]
Every kid wanted one of these for christmas in 1980, now it's available in a flash version