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James pointed me to a very interesting post on Owen’s site on ways to protect yourself from identity theft. If you ignore the US specific advice (Social Security number stuff), there’s some very useful advice there.
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Vatican changes its view on euthanasia
“Who can judge the dignity and sacredness of the life of a human being, made in the image and likeness of God?”; “Who can decide to pull the plug as if we were talking about a broken appliance?” so wrote…
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Credit card fraud
How often do tellers check what’s written on the slip? How secure is this system? What can you get away with signing as your signature on credit card slips? Zug decided to find out – with hilarious results
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Would you support an SEO-spam company?
I was asked this question on a mailing list I’m on by a poster there in relation to the current WordPress hosting spam story which is doing the rounds. This was my response: I would never support an SEO-spam company.…
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Microsoft ships Windows 2003 SP1
Microsoft has rolled out Windows 2003 SP1. One of its main new features (apart from bug fixes) is the Security Configuration Wizard, which helps reduce the “attack surface” by collecting data about specific server roles and then automatically blocking all…
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Zero to charged in sixty seconds
According to an article in Businessworld, Toshiba have invented a Lithium-ion rechargeable battery that can be charged to 80% of it capacity in just one minute. The battery uses nano technology apparently – nano-particles to prevent organic liquid electrolytes from…
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Yahoo Groups displays as a blank page
Bernie emailed me this morning to invite me to join Irishblogs – a new group set up on Yahoo! Groups. The group description People from Ireland or in Ireland who have blogs, cross-links, and threads worth sharing. sounded reasonably interesting…
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A spam comment makes it through my comment spam defences
Well, it had to happen – a comment spam made it through my defences and onto the site this morning. Having said that, I never thought the site would be spam-free for four whole weeks when I turned off my…
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