Month: July 2005

  • Spamming can seriously affect your health!

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    Via Loic From MozNews.com Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head… Under Russian law, spamming…

  • Shoot to kill policy fundamentally flawed

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    The recently exposed UK “shoot to killâ€? policy appears to have been discreetly introduced into anti-terrorist procedures in 2003, after then-Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens sent teams to both Israel and Sri Lanka to study how they dealt with suicide bombers. On Sunday, Lord Stevens said in the News of the World: There is only…

  • Firefox New Window command not working

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    I recently upgraded my Firefox install to 1.06 – while I was at it, I upgraded the extensions and added some new ones (GreaseMonkey, SessionSaver, Google Toolbar for Firefox, and Googlebar). After installing all of these and re-starting Firefox a number of times, I realised that the File -> New Window command was no longer…

  • Microsoft Virtual Earth vs Google Maps

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    Microsoft launched its Virtual Earth web application this morning – Virtual Earth is an attempt by Microsoft to take on Google’s Google Maps web application. After a couple of initial hiccups in the launch, the application is now live. If this were a report card, I would be writing on it “Must try harder”! –…

  • Risk Equalisation – BUPA Ireland wins round one

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    Risk equalisation, according to the Health insurance Authority, is a process that aims to equitably neutralise differences in insurers’ costs due to variations in the health status of their members. Risk equalisation results in cash transfers from insurers with lower risk members to insurers with higher risk members. In other words, under risk equalisation, BUPA…

  • Microsoft launch Virtual Earth

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    Microsoft have apparently launched their Google Maps killer – Virtual Earth – there is plenty of talk about it – some positive and some negative. However, I can’t venture any opinion on Virtual Earth because I can’t access it! Despite trying for the last half-hour I only get a timeout on trying to see it.…

  • Recruitment company gives RSS feeds for saved searches

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    I speculated recently in a post on the possible uses of RSS that one obvious use of saved search RSS feeds is for recruitment companies – jobseekers create their search, subscribe to the RSS feed it generates and get their ideal job delivered to them through their RSS reader! Now I see that this saved…

  • Bombs in London again

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    Bombers have attacked London again at 4 locations – news reports are just coming in – see BBC News or Sky News for more. Initial reports are suggesting that this attack is not as serious as the attack 2 weeks ago. Tag: London Explosions