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Corvus Crow
The Fireraven
Tuesday, 07. September 2010, 6:49
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Thursday, 02 September 2010
eBay will be moving to a single, consolidated checkout process, and effective June 30, 2011, eBay Checkout will be the only checkout process on eBay.com.A single, familiar checkout experience is key to reducing confusion and improving how people shop on eBay. We've been working with sellers and providers for some time and will continue to do so for a seamless transition next year. Reducing confusion? That is a nice sounding way to say that eBay thinks users are too stupid to make a payment without their help. eBay's job is to offer a platform for sales, nothing more. How people pay and get paid is up to them. If eBay decides to force everybody to use their services and Paypal only, then there's nothing more to do than stop using their service. Not to mention that in several countries, this decision will be legally challenged and most likely deemed illegal.
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Friday, 27 August 2010
Security researchers are reporting an uptick in malware hidden in .zip files being sent out in spam to Web users.Unlike many of the other FedEx-related malware attacks in the past, the e-mails' message about a failed delivery comes in the form of an image rather than text - possibly in an attempt to avoid anti-spam filters. Actually, this is good. Rejecting emails with zip attachments solves that problem easily.
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Botnets are now responsible for sending 95 percent of all spam, up from 84 percent in April, and almost half of that spam comes from a single botnet, Rustock.Rustock sent 41 percent of the world's botnet spam in August, up from 32 percent in April. This is despite the network actually shrinking in size from 2.5 million to 1.3 million bots over the same period, security company Symantec said on Tuesday. After all those years, people still fall for spam. It's as if nobody learns.
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Friday, 20 August 2010
Between July 4 and August 6 of this year, Telenet's single largest user slurped up 2.7TB of data. He was followed by similarly impressive downloaders who transferred 1.9TB, 1.5TB, and 1.3 TB.Telenet doesn't want to call its plans "unlimited," but it does say that "'fair use' means that you can send and receive a very large quantity of data via the Telenet network. While it may be quite a bit of data, it shouldn't be a problem. The ISP offers a speed which allows such a volumne so it shouldn't be surprised if customers make use of it.
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Wednesday, 18 August 2010
The Federal Communications Commission reported this week that broadband users see about half the advertised "up to" speeds promised by Internet providers, and similar findings were made earlier this year in the UK.Hungary faced the same issue and has tried to address it with a novel solution: ISPs must offer guaranteed minimum speeds. Perhaps they should link the speed and the bill. If your connection speed drops to half, then so will your bill.
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Random quote from Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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