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  1. awesometbn

    Ways to make real money

    Now that you're making bank with all of your online efforts, what do you do with all of your cash? Here are ten ways to (hopefully) grow it. Saw this on CNN and wanted to comment on it; below is my quick summary. It's all about investing your cash at the right time, in the right place...
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    (Back to the) Recorded Future

    Too lazy for copy/paste, so here is the Wired article and the Recorded Future blog. Basically it's like Minority Report, Enemy of the State, and other conspiracy movies combined into real time analysis for your pre-crime entertainment. Thanks to Google and the CIA for investing so much...
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    Might be old news, but get ready for 1099-K

    Just saw this on CNN but it reminds me of another story about some affiliate marketer guru getting fined millions for not sending 1099 forms to each one of his thousands of affiliates. Stealth IRS changes mean millions of new tax forms Stealth IRS campaign mandates millions of new 1099 tax...
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    Don't mess with Texans online

    Just saw this news article and it made me think of WF favorites like Bev Clement, Gary Thiem, Steve Wagenheim, and countless others. If this new law grows beyond Texas, how will that change daily operations here at comedy central? Teen arrested on charges of online harassment Sources...
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    Fake SSL cert cannot be revoked

    Null-Prefix SSL Certificate For PayPal Released A bit of bad news for anyone who still trusts the padlock icon in their browser without taking a few precautions. This SSL flaw has been known for a while, and became especially popular after a presentation at Defcon. Sources...
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    Searching for an old bookmarked URL

    This is off topic, but I've been trying to figure out the name of a website that I used to visit a few years ago. I remember saving it as a bookmark, but that was a couple of laptops ago, and I didn't sync bookmarks or use delicious to save it online. So I'm stuck without some helpful hints...
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    Ad sales down, News Corp reports loss

    Some interesting comments about MySpace advertising. And these disappointing quarterly results are being announced right around the same time that Murdoch is telling people that he wants to start charging everyone for getting access to his news websites and putting a premium price on content...
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    A few domains of mine about to expire

    I had a couple of projects last year that I am no longer working on, and instead of just letting the domains expire, I thought I would offer them up to anyone who is interested. Free push if you have a GoDaddy account. There are 55 of them (various info, net, org, com, biz) that are due on...
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    Put 100 DVDs on a single disc

    Just in time for the end of the Earth in 2012, General Electric promises a massive increase in digital storage capacity on a single DVD-sized disc. Below is a quote from the article in the New York Times. Source: hxxp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/technology/business-computing/27disk.html?_r=1
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    Wicked Fire logo vs Prilosec OTC

    Not too long ago I saw these Prilosec OTC commercials, had the volume down, and I swear for a moment I thought WF was doing television spots because I saw "Burnie" the abdominal arsonists cartoon character. Source: hxxp://ericalba.org/vfx/webdemo/Prilosec_Burnie/ I've seen this other...
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    Anti-trust investigation for Google?

    Saw this today but it seems like this news item has been floating around for a while. True the big G is massive, but doesn't this just smack of the government wanting to get its hands on some precious cash (hundreds of thousands, or millions) by punishing a company when it becomes successful...
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    Hacked websites and clickjacking

    Just a quick heads up to anyone who is not using Lynx as their web browser. There is a cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in most browsers called clickjacking. Lynx is not vulnerable because it is a text only browser. Just google the term clickjacking for links to articles and blogs...