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Fishermen feed live kittens to sharks and marlin

by certifiedbug on February 10, 2010

in This and That

A fishing guide and former live fishing reporter for one of our local news stations finds out about this on a trip to Venezuela. He says many of the participants are American. Please help him bring attention to this and hopefully prevent this incredibly cruel practice

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=431_1232680237

Another point of view: http://www.adsavvy.org/save-our-cats-and-kittens-from-fishermen-or-how-to-make-lots-of-money-online-as-a-liar/

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Worm Author gets job

by certifiedbug on November 27, 2009

in This and That

Graham Cluley’s blog.

There are plenty of young coders out there who would not have acted so stupidly, are just as worthy of an opportunity inside a software development company, and are actually quite likely to be better coders than Towns who made a series of blunders with his code.

Ikee worm author gets job at iPhone app firm

Meanwhile,

Concerns have been raised that 43-year-old McKinnon, who was arrested almost eight years ago after allegedly hacking into computers belonging to the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Department of Defense and NASA, and has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, might take his own life if jailed in the United States.

Bad news for NASA hacker Gary McKinnon – extradition seems imminent

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Dell Support-or lack thereof

September 25, 2009

I like my Dell equipment, mostly trouble free over the years but… woe betide the user who has a problem and needs to contact Dell support.
It has been over a week since I first contacted Dell via email to return a monitor broken and unusable because of a manufacturing defect.
Trying to communicate with what appears [...]

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Feed Demon Google Reader sync

September 24, 2009

FeedDemon’s on-line reader Newsgator has been discontinued.

New In FeedDemon 3.0!
* Google Reader sync – Use FeedDemon at home, at your office, or anywhere you go and keep your feeds, tags and shared items synched between locations.
If you don’t have a license this is the kind of ad you will see [...]

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Microsoft – A new approach to Enterprise Security

April 21, 2009

April 16, 2009.
PressPass spoke with Douglas Leland, general manager of Microsoft Corp.’s Identity and Security Business Group, about the company’s strategy to help provide “Business Ready Security.”
Question & Answer
Network World: Microsoft discloses ambitious security strategy

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Conficker -April 1st distraction

March 27, 2009

60 Minutes airs a report Sunday, March 29, 2009 on Conficker, entitled “The Internet is Infected” with CBS reporter Lesley Stahl. Preview
“The best that the experts tell us that we can do is just buy security software, anti virus, anti worm software and just make sure it receives the update instructions,” said Stahl.
Presentation [...]

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Grab bag

March 13, 2009

Anti-Social Networking
Differences between IE8 Compatibility View and IE7
Completing the Windows Experience with Windows Live
TinyURL usage becoming more common in Phishing and IM Attacks – Harry Waldron – Corporate and Home Security
Conficker.C variant set for April 1st surprise, CA says
Security Updates available for Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9
Foxit version 3.0 fixes serious vulnerabilities in its [...]

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Santa brought me a netbook

December 31, 2008

A Dell Inspiron Mini with Windows XP pre-installed, I love it.

I removed the bloated pre-installed 30 day trial McAfee security suite, and installed the free versions of Avira’s AntiVir anti virus and Comodo’s firewall I already had an installer for the standalone firewall, not being fond of suites.
The Mini measures 9.1 x 6.8 [...]

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RIAA to stop mass suits

December 19, 2008

According to The Wall Street Journal the Recording Industry Association of America has decided to abandon its current tactic of suing thousands of individuals for allegedly stealing music via the Internet.
This turn of events will not affect current lawsuits already in play and the RIAA will continue to hash out preliminary agreements with major ISPs [...]

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Mac OS X 10.5.6 Leopard Update, users report issues

December 17, 2008

A day after the update was released via Apple’s download service, users reported problems with most centering on Operating System freezes and ‘Blue Screens of Death’.
Information Week
Ironically Apple poked fun at Windows with a Blue Screen of Death Easter Egg in the final release of Leopard.

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