One-Time-Use E-Mail Addresses – You sign up with a address company (e.g., “NoSpam.com”) that you give your real address to. When you need to provide a valid e-mail address on a site, you click a button and NoSpam would instantly generate an address — maybe “x43gti@akantor.nospam.com.” Ugly? Yeah. But who cares? You could specify how ...
“(extlink)By hook or by crook, criminals get tripped up”:http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/107302654923390.xml?starledger?ncolhal – It’s been another bad year for dimwitted criminals throughout the world. They attempted some audacious capers only to be caught through their own stupidity. Jail isn’t good enough for them. Judges should assign them to insane asylums for their own safety. [the “(extlink)Star Ledger”:http://www.nj.com/starledger ]
IMF Presses World to Scrap Farm Subsidies – The world economy would gain an annual boost of 128 billion dollars if lavish farm subsidies were scrapped, the IMF said in a report. Industrialized nations spent more than 300 billion dollars last year on agricultural subsidies — six times the total government aid to developing countries, ...
OnStar Considered Harmful – “A few weeks ago Slashdot ran an article on the privacy issues in EzPass. Some of the comments referred to other things Big Brother could do with GPS in cars, and now the New York Times has run a column on what else your car is saying about you (free registration ...
– Iran Quake Toll Rises to 25,000; Injured Fill Hospitals, and Streets – KERMAN, Iran, Dec. 27 — As rescue workers raced to the ancient city of Bam, officials there raised the death toll from its 12-second earthquake on Friday to 25,000, and worried that it could go much higher. [NY Times] This is truly ...
Kantor on One-time Emails
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