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2008 April 11

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FCC Fines Major Retailers Over Analog Television Sales

The Federal Communications Commission, that Rip Van Winkle entity of our government, has recently been making major, blundering pushes in all manner of things. Usually found on the wrong side of any argument or situation, the Commission is now opening another salvo in the effort to fill its coffers.
The initial levies were against Wal-Mart for […]

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Microsoft Wants To Annoy You!

For each person that is happy with the Vista interface, I can show you twenty who aren’t. Also, the most annoying feature of this offering from Redmond is the UAC feature, that incessantly asks the user if they really want to do what they started to do.
Now, at a security conference in San Francisco, […]

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QuickTime Gets A Bodyguard

Apple must be getting very upset that so many attacks are being made on systems through its Quicktime software. Multimedia files are being targeted by the creators of havoc more and more.
So with the latest revision of Quicktime, Apple has taken some of the techniques that Microsoft has employed with Vista to impede the […]