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SEATTLE – Two online companies that promised consumers “free” big-ticket items but required them to pay for trial offers and subscriptions must pay $55,000 in civil penalties under a settlement announced today by the Washington Attorney General’s Office...
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Put this one down to very very VERY bad judgment on the part of whoever it is who designs advertising campaigns for realestateonline.com.au. I'm sure many of you have heard about the now infamous Melbourne teenager Corey Worthington Delaney who got...
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Fascinating reading and an excellent insight into the problems faced by web sites hit by malicious content - reality is that the web sites affected by malicious advertising need help gathering the data required to prove an incident has occurred, and often...
Hi all, I'm back from holidays - the whole family had a fantastic time - all in all we passed through Singapore, Egypt, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland over the past couple of weeks. We have hundreds of photographs which I'll try to get...
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2Clix has sued the owner of the Australia based Whirlpool chat forums for $150,000.00 and requested the permanent removal of two threads criticizing the 2Clix software. 2Clix, a less than reputable software company, has filed suit against the founder...
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So, what do we do when Microsoft Update offers this.... But this is installed....
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In answer to the question posted by Paul Wright here: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2007/09/10/1184164.aspx#1184814 "Are you the person spamming links to this all over news.admin.net-abuse.email, by the way? Hope not." I did NOT...
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Network toys... Seriously - found via Jesper's blog : " BRIO Network is not your classic toy train set. It's an original world of Rail Play featuring the imaginary creatures who live inside your computer. They drive super-cool vehicles around...
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Bronwyn has put out a call for members to join geekgirlsblog; I suppose I'd better put my name in the hat I haven't met Bronwyn - our respective home towns are many thousands of miles apart, and I don't get to travel much nowadays - but those...
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"Whether it's in Second Life, World or Warcraft or EverQuest, one photographer has made it his mission to document the virtual worlds of gamers alongside the real. Robbie Cooper talks to NEWS.com.au about his latest book, "Alter Ego"...
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Received today... "Thanks for repairing my Internet Explorer! I reduced the size of the cache as you recommended and ouila - it works after a week of frustration. I'm no newbie, having been through about 15 computers since 1983, but I never knew...
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"Notorious spammer Christopher "Rizler" Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a federal judge on Wednesday. US District Judge Michael Davis called Smith a "drug kingpin" before throwing the book at him. Smith was convicted...
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Edit: Mystery solved http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/06/13/the-devil-is-in-the-details.aspx Here is an interesting question for you. Check out the pictures in this Spanish blog: http://inicia.es/de/kwisatz/index.html#2878790462939498204...
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Unfortunately the girl is in a bit of a pickle legally because you must be over the age of 18 to use the deviantArt service. DeviantArt also specifically excludes "minors" from being allowed to upload content. Of course that means that the DVD...
Frank Arrigo (a lovely gentleman, if I may say so) notes that a new build of Windows Live Writer has been released . Up till now I have been using Community Server's inbuilt Control Panel to create my blog entries (either creating the text in Notepad...
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Symptoms: Your system may appear to become unresponsive when Windows Update or Microsoft Update is scanning for updates that use Windows installer, and you may notice that the CPU usage for the svchost process is showing 100%. When you try to install...
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Saw this on Sharkbait. Shonky street vendors are putting the chopped off end of a USB cable in an old Dlink wifi adapter case and selling them off as cheap USB flash drives. Cheeky. http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/9779/pendrivefg7.jpg
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Webmaster says "You were landed on this page because you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer." Umm... screenshot of Firefox 2.0.0.3, default settings.
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I've worked in the legal field for close on 20 years, and keep an eye on various law-related blogs because of this. An article published on Overlawyered piqued my interest today - it talks about a lawsuit between Suzanne Shell and Internet Archive...
You may be owed money if you paid for a video subscription service from Movieland.com, bought Spyware Cleaner software or a Sony BMG music CD, or were billed for a shopping service or travel club you didn’t want. The Attorney General’s Office Consumer...
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