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The situation is getting desperate. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the University of New Hampshire did a recent study that found that 1 in 5 children who regularly use the Internet have been solicited for sex in the past year.
But get this: The same study found 1 in 4 children […]
There is now a 50% chance of being infected by an internet worm within just 12 minutes of being online using an unprotected, unpatched Windows PC, according to Sophos, one of the big anti-virus companies. That’s how bad it has become. Even the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness team says “the average time-to-exploitation … for an […]
Your PC may be suffering from serious file errors in your WINDOWS registry which may be the reason why your PC is running so slow, or crashing and freezing from time to time. Also, these can lead to major system problems and possible memory leaks.
To find out what problems you may have, you can get […]
Forget the roof-mounted dish or the expensive cable connection. Now there’s a way to get 3,000 international satellite TV stations beamed directly to your PC through the Internet. Think of VoIP for satelliet TV. It’s all perfectly legal and involves a $49 program.
You do need a broadband connection for the best audion and video pickup […]
Chicago Tribune - The result is a glitch reminiscent of the Y2K bug, when cataclysmic crashes were feared if computers interpreted the year 2000 as 1900 and couldn’t reconcile time appearing to move backward. This bug is much less threatening, but it could cause head …
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Chicago Tribune - Dallas, Tyler and Athens, Texas; Riverside, Calif.; Miami.; and Baton Rouge, La. Agents temporarily closed businesses, seizing computers and documents to be used as evidence. The IRS has urged taxpayers to request a standard refund amount ranging from …
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Intelligent Cars That Drive without Humans. Remember Knight Rider?Playfuls.com - 1 hour agoby Dan Nicolae Alexa. Isaac Asimov’s famous novel I, Robot (and Will Smith’s SF movie that imitated it) might soon find roots in reality: scientists estimate that by 2030 robots will replace humans in many activities.Days of the idiot behind the wheel […]
Tribune-Chronicle - UNION CITY Demos Punsalan didn’t encounter any red tape in obtaining and shipping nearly 1,000 discarded computers and printers from Union City schools to the Philippines. But getting the machines through customs and into the hands of needy …
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Lost Planet map packs incomingBoomtown - 28 minutes agoThe publisher has announced plans to release downloadable map packs for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. Radar Field and Island 902 are the first packs set for release and they will be hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace on March 8th for 400 Microsoft …Lost Planet map packs soon EurogamerNew […]
J.D. Steinhilber submits: The U.S. stock market continued to move higher in the first month of the year. During January, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Russell 2000 achieved new all-time highs, while the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ registered new bull market highs.
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Reading the Tealeaves of Digital Rights Managementiofilm - 1 hour agoSteve Jobs recent pronouncement that DRM isn't working and should be dropped on electronic sales of music, confirmed what many downloaders already knew.The recording industry's off-key strategy Toronto StarMacrovision Responds to Jobs Techtree.comSDA Asia Magazine - 49er Online - Stereophile Magazine - Newsweekall 36 news articles
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New Bats! New Birds! DNA Barcoding Uncovers New SpeciesPlayfuls.com - 1 hour agoby Playfuls Team. Even the most avid of bird watchers can't always spot every tiny little difference. That's why a new classifying technique described in two papers being published Sunday in the British journal Molecular Ecology Notes was needed to …DNA tests find a […]
Chicago Sun-Times - Items recovered Saturday from the Hyde Park apartment in the 1400 block of East 55th Street included iPods, cell phones and laptop computers, Taylor said. No charges had been filed by Sunday night, but the suspect made statements to officers …
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Softpedia - … to hack a suspect’s computer to find incriminatory information stored in the system. A German court prohibited the police from using spying software solutions saying there is no legal context to allow the use of illegal material on certain computers …
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