10March2010
Posted by Jimmy under: Health.
In a study published in the March 2010 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers determined that regular use of aspirin, acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increases the risk of hearing loss in men, particularly in younger men, below age 60.
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10March2010
Posted by Jimmy under: Technology.
A German firm has cooked up an app that fools hackers who try to breach your smart phone. The program called MobileSitter holds all your passwords so you don’t have to remember them, but ComputerWorld reports that if a fraudster tries to hack in with the wrong credentials, the program sends back bogus information that’s designed to look like a real password or even ATM PIN. Fraudsters won’t know they were duped, until they try to use it. Mobile Sitter sells for about 10 Euros or $13 dollars.
10March2010
Posted by Jimmy under: Technology.
Researchers at United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team have found that software that accompanies the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a Trojan horse which gives hackers total access to a Windows PC, reports ComputerWorld.
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12February2010
Posted by admin under: Technology.
Around the last week of Febuary, Mr.Softy will insert “Update for Microsoft Windows (KB971033)” as important update. What this patch will do is “phone home” every 90 days to check with MS servers to check for specific footprints they determine to be pirate copies of Windows 7. If you trigger this, at which time your copy of the OS will display nag screens for you to be legit.
11February2010
Posted by admin under: Politics.
The Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.