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Freedom of speech first.
Writing in the mirror, Sue Carroll questions weather or not Facebook should be defending free speech. She’s writing in regards to the controversial “RIP Raoul Moat – You Legend” group which the author had taken down not facebook. I’m not going to look at that in any detail. She however does make an interesting point…
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Yet Another BT Price Rise [YABTPR]…
Just when you thought that value for money was poor in the telecoms industry, especially in reference to the hated British Telecom, BT go and put the price up. That’s right, another hike in the cost of service from one of the worst telecoms companies in the world. Last year we transferred our phone line…
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Rootkit breaches network security in India, Are you effected?
In my role at work I recently had the opportunity to discuss with a expert in security aspects of the PCI-Data Security Standard in the context of storing credit card information. This covers amongst many other things, whom has access to the data. Our client has a team in India doing work for his site…
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The Times looses 66% of readers over fees.
According to an article published on rival news paper website The Gaurdian, the Times has managed to loose its self the majority of its readers. For a news paper, this cant be a good sign and is probably likely to extend to physical newspaper sales too. Impacting on an industry which already faces problems with…
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Supercomputer says Chicken first!
The UK National Supercomputing service, HECToR is perhaps more well known as being a top of the line supercomputer based in Edinburgh for advanced research. Working away on such projects as Quantum chemistry Cancer Research and other Modeling tasks. In a joint project between Shefeild University and Warwick University aimed at study into the structure…
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Lord Kinnock on Lord Mandelson!!!
Well isnt that intresting, not long ago Lord Mandelson was featured here in his capacity of the Internet Villian of the year. Now a fellow Lord has lashed out at him too! Lord Kinnock whom was infulentual in Mandelson’s early career has implied that he is but a shadow of what he once was. Must…
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Unemployment Down but is the Jobs listed up?
In the UK, the Office of National Statistics is perhaps one of the most perculiuar departments of any goverment agency. In effect it is their job to take all the information the goverment has, file it in some dark database (and probly lose a copy in the process) and come to a conclusion. They estimate…
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The One Page Checkout.
Over the last three weeks I have been developing a onepage checkout for Magento for our client. Today I am happy that the biggest problem seems to possibilly be done. I just placed an order with it and got a sucess page. The Requirements: Card Storage Capability Verification of Card CV2 on using stored card…
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One pad to rule them all…
Well the iPad has been released, and it seems to be quite popular albeit no one really knows what its really for. I can see some convinence uses out of it like reading an ebook whilst sitting on the loo. Or having a manual to reffer to when installing an computer system that has no…