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I aim for this to be a politically un-biased, FYI article regarding the effect most of Obama's policies have had on the U.S. middle class, which any economist can tell you is the most important class in a healthy nation's economy (charts below to demonstrate this). Everybody needs to know this, so w
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...is by far the most annoying thing to find on the Internet when you're in an honest search for something. This "tagline" is part of a fake "search engine portal" used by the world's largest cybersquatter, information.com, and this article aims to outline just how they "get away" with these registr
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PETA people flipped out when President Obama swatted a fly today during an interview. The post linked to above makes the loss of the fly sound like the loss of a Nobel prize winner, as opposed to a non-endangered insect that annoys us to no end: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="479" capt
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In a completely logical, non-faceslapping move towards Apple and it's audience of developers, AT&T has allowed tethering to take place via the iPhone while still disallowing bandwidth-intensive applications such as Slingbox and Skype from using their crappy and slow bogged-down network and bandwidth
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Naseem Javed wrote us some feedback on the article "Reasons Why Nobody Uses Tailored Top Level Domain Names", posted a few days ago, to inform us of ICANN's new Global Top-Level Domain names, and why they may get scrapped before they even become available: The Internet Corporation of Assigned Nam
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Abandonware, software that is unsupported and obsolete yet still covered by copyright, has been an ongoing legality topic with no definitive precedent case determining its verdict of being legal or not. Although most argue that abandonware is software still technically covered by an unexpired copyri
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A common misconception about the Open Systems Interconnection model is that it contains only seven layers, named "Physical", "Data Link", "Network", "Transport", "Session", "Presentation" and "Application". This is inconsistent, however, as there exists an eighth layer above "Application" commonly t
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Keeping with the spirit of lame April fool's jokes today posted by other news sites like Slashdot and Digg, we thought we'd get in on the stupid blatantly-fake headline tirade as well: "Conficker worm causes thecoffeedesk.com servers to explo" "Microsoft acquired by the Free Software Foundation"
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"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - according to Picasso, Microsoft is one of the greatest artists in the technology industry today. Here is a carefully compiled list of all Microsoft products considered to be derivatives of other works, and the research behind the facts. This is not
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After a long tug of war over whether or not to pass the large bailout sum, AIG and others finally received the answer to their prayers, and the curse of many whom worried about future taxes. But the first check to be written from the sum was spent by none other than the AIG execs for a vacation of a
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