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I’m sure everyone already knows about this, but you might have forgot or recently overlooked this “feature.”
Long story short: username@gmail.com = user.name@gmail.com = us.er.na.me@gmail.com = username+junk@gmail.com = u.s.ername+ballsack@gmail.com …et cetera.
Very useful for when you sign up on various sites. You can use different e-mail aliases and then know and filter all the garbage they might [...]

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THINGS are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue. At first blush the family that occupies it looks to be very much of a type. The father, Steven B. Klinsky, 52, runs a private equity company; the mother, Maureen Sherry, 44, left her job as a managing director for Bear [...]

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A law school professor and former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police. In part 2 an experienced police officer tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police.

Part 2 after he jump…

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Interested in the new Asus Eee PC 901? Here’s a round-up of information about it:

Hands on WiMax enabled Eee PC 901 (engadget chinese)
Side by side by side: Eee PC 701, 901, 1000 (engadget chinese)

Official Specifications (asus.com)
Eee PC 901 First Look (notebookreview.com)
Eee PC 901 Unboxing, First Impressions (laptopmag.com)
Eee PC 901 Mini Review (laptopmag.com)
Benchmark/Review of the Eee [...]

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Sen. Feingold Asks: Why Should the Government Be Able to Search Our Laptops When We Return from Abroad?

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Despite upgrades and fixes, most browsers are still vulnerable to attacks via Web forms, researcher says.

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I’m awfully excited to note (belatedly) that Banshee, the free and open source music player for Linux, turned 1.0 a couple weeks ago. When I first surveyed all the music players available for the girlfriend’s Linux laptop, Banshee looked the most promising, but it was still in a fairly unstable beta. Now that it’s finished, [...]

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The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed.

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A previous post explained how computers boot up right up to the point where the boot loader, after stuffing the kernel image into memory, is about to jump into the kernel entry point. This last post about booting takes a look at the guts of the kernel to see how an operating system starts life. [...]

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BERKELEY, California — For most people, photographing something that isn’t there might be tough. Not so for Trevor Paglen.
His shots of 189 secret spy satellites are the subject of a new exhibit — despite the fact that, officially speaking, the satellites don’t exist. The Other Night Sky, on display at the University of California at [...]

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At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
At JavaOne in May 2007, Sun [...]

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Now this is just funny… If you own a Jura F90 Coffee Maker, you can also buy a Jura Internet Connection Kit, which lets you program and set your coffee prefs via the network: however, its got a bunch of vulnerabilities that allow for remote denial-of-coffee attacks:
Guess what – it can not be patched as [...]

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A teenager faces felony charges and could spend decades in prison over allegations that he repeatedly broke into an acclaimed Orange County high school, hacked into computers to change his grades and stole tests — all in hopes of improving his college admissions prospects, authorities said Tuesday.
Omar Khan, 18, should be graduating with his Tesoro [...]

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MySpace can collect $6 million from a notorious Internet marketer accused by the popular online hangout of spamming its users.
An arbitrator has ruled that Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colo., must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in attorney’s fees for barraging MySpace members with [...]

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When Mayor Nutter announced late last year that he was hiring D.C. Charles Ramsey as his police commissioner, I said I would keep an open mind but I was dismayed at his treatment of anti-war protesters and his frequent clashes there over civil rights. So far, I’ve been mostly impressed with Ramsey — murders have [...]

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Wine has had its first non-beta stable release ever today. By complete coincidence today is the same day Firefox 3 came out.

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When Are You at Risk?
An independent study shows that, in 2006, IE users were vulnerable to online threats 78% of the time. Firefox users? Only 2%.

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