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Do you know who your friends are?
1 in every 50 'clicks' is to a social networking site, according to a Cisco security report just released.And so, of course, social networking sites become the new target for internet fraud.The methods are simple. It starts with a virus package that collects signons and usage. It doesn't even need
A 30 year sentence
To be in the world, but not part of it.The horror, the absolute mind - numbingly torture of being so totally paralysed that you cannot show any signs of life, yet you are awake, you are aware, you can do nothing except observe and
The fight for capitalism
gets ever more expensive with companies that are 'too big to fail'.Strange things are happening after the financial crisis - happenings that may make bankers realise they overstepped the mark by defying governments and the people over their right to lose money while earning
What they dont tell you when buying a laptop
. . . is that they may not use standard drivers. And the problems are all your own.I have a moderately highend laptop - a Dell - on which a number of problems are gradually being highlighted. In the last two months two similar problems
Is corporate culture intrinsically racist?
I ask this in the wake of the Eskom debacle. It is just one point of many that needs to be debated.There are so many issues around the current resignation of Bobby Godsell and the non-resignation of Jacob Maroga that it will probably take months if not
Before asking for financial advice - look it up on the internet!
Customer service?? Call centres?? The internet is your best bet. Recently I needed to buy an an investment policy - a life annuity - for I have (unfortunately) reached that age where a retirement annuity (RA) has matured. Although the law now specifies that you may buy the
Bandwidth = freedom
I need more variety in my day and bandwidth would go some way to help.I am a day trader on the internet. The problem is trading is boring...... You buy a share (I trade derivatives more often), set stop losses and alarms and then
Religious fury
Nothing seems to infuriate people as much as religion.Recent blogs on MyDL have once again highlighted the fact that people are infuriated by religion. Even people who do profess to believe in a particular god are angered, infuriated, disgusted by other adherents of that
Ejection
Most of us have met them at one stage or another - people who wonder what will happen if they hit the big red button.There are a group of people who should never be allowed near anything technological, no matter how basic. They range from the people
Anyone for a BigMac?
And I don't mean the famous burger.A new aid to those who want to understand literature but can't sit through the collected works of Chaucer (who actually is quite funny) has come out. Twitterature! Or at least it will be released in the States
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