This time, the bill’s focused on victim restitution. Sponsored by Democrat Patrick Leahy, the new bill allows:
…victims of identity theft to seek restitution for the time they spend to fix the problems. The bill would allow prosecutors to go after criminals who threaten to take or release information from computers with cyberextortion, and it [...]

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I envy my friends who are still riding out the Vista wave, comfortable computing with their PCs and lappies still on XP. Quite honestly, save for one guy who’s running on a rig with a 5.7 Windows Experience Index, everyone’s doing just fine. Be it for daily office productivity, gaming, and the Internet, XP [...]

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Keyboard ninjas might have had a hard time trying to adjust to the new search bar. While I have to admit that it has made it easier for me to run programs using the keyboard, some power users might just miss the powers of the Run command. And coming from XP where the Run [...]

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Office politics doesn’t only involve people with varying levels of authority. So it’s not just your relationship with your boss that demands attention. Most of the politics involved in the workplace is with your co-workers. Basically you have two types - your friend and your foe. And it’s always the latter who’d give you a [...]

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Traveling does have its risks. Not because you’re safely in a hotel, you’d be lax with your things. While a lot of hotels boast of beefy security, it’s practically impossible for them to cover all rooms and all hallways. Thievery, both petty and grand, almost always happens right under our noses. It always pays to [...]

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You really have to applaud how the UK is approaching they could service their citizens. Their latest move? Provide a one-time payoff of 200 quids to pregnant women from the 29th week of pregnancy. This is aimed to address the concerns of infant mortality and health inequality gaps.
Poor diet among expecting mothers is the leading [...]

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Google Reader is one service that I keep constantly open in a tab in my browser. And a lot of wishes about it have just come true. The new improvements were announced a day ago but it’s only now that Google has finally given me an opportunity to try it out. In any case, [...]

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Never underestimate an allergy. Our bodies are being more and more responsive to substances which are even practically harmless, like pollen, or a cold weather. Your symptoms should be treated early on or it can develop into something more serious. Recognize the signs of having an allergy by being aware and extra-attentive to how your [...]

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Now isn’t this interesting. And you have to admire how people actually come up with these ideas. Here’s Tempo, a concept of a 250GB external hard drive that automatically backs up everything you delete.
Some might think it’s dumb to actually have an external hard drive all for the purpose of playing the role [...]

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Google first broke the mold of measly 2-10 MBs of mailbox space a few years ago by offering 2 GBs (and counting) of space. Now, about a couple or so years of having Gmail as the king of mailbox spaces, Yahoo shook things up by offering unlimited mailbox space to subscribers. Windows Live [...]

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Not good news for Sun employees. Sun plans to hand out $100 to $150 million in severances according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. No word yet on how many employees will be affected but it’s definite that Sun will be trimming down it’s 34,219 strong workforce.

Sun executives decided to [...]

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Whew. We couldn’t just count the ways advertisements can bombard us, huh? I’m just waiting for the time when we’ll have a Minority Report-ish personalized advertising everywhere we go. Or probably some Futurama stuff, where we get advertisements in dreams. But I guess, for now, we’ll just have to content ourselves with ad placements on [...]

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It’s really interesting how Japanese cars are really making it big in muscle car America. Toyota Prius is on top of the hybrid food chain as demand for eco-friendly and fuel-economic cars surge for the past months CNN reports.
A total of 187,000 hybrid vehicles were sold in the United States in the first six [...]

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I missed this bit since my news feeds are the most abundant in my feed reader. It’s already a few days old but still, I think it’s an important issue to discuss.
The business school of the University of Chicago is now requiring applicants to submit PowerPoint presentations together with their applications according to a [...]

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Google probably wants to stop all the headaches (lawsuits) that came with their acquisition of YouTube. Imagine acquiring buying something for $1.65 B and getting slapped with a lawsuit amounting to $1 B afterwards. Remember Viacom? Well, that’s what happened so it’s pretty much understandable why Google is just intent on developing an anti-piracy [...]

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