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Dear Temptee: Beware of Microsoft's BizSpark

> SAN FRANCISCO, November 5 Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft BizSpark, a global program designed to help accelerate the success of entrepreneurs and early-stage startups. BizSpark provides sta...

Open SourceRant
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Making comments more accessible

Russ identifies these attributes of a comment:

Work Life
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Mothers will do anything to help their kids

> Hello Ben I am trying to urgently locate someone who could assist my son with a web programming Uni assignment, which needs to be finished by Friday. The person would be well remunerated. I look for...

Random
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Will Cloud Computing Violate your Privacy and Security?

That's what I understood from the show. I'm not entirely sure how Chrome fits in to the equation, but I'll get to that later.

TechnologyPrivacySecurity
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The trend of me

Every time someone says something about you or related to you (according to your search conditions) it'll appear in your reader. One instance this came in useful is when someone misspelt my name in th...

Technology
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If you use a video camera, I need your help!

Please fill in the answers as honestly as you can and don't spare my feelings. It's more important that I know the truth than hear what I want to hear!

Work Life
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How much is .50 cents?

> Wendy 42164513: How may I help with your enquiry today? Ben: Hi Wendy. I was just wondering if you could confirm the excess usage charges on the Data Pack 10 product. Your web site says $.050/MB, bu...

Rant
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Hug a Developer Today

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Never trust your users!

This could mean asking the user if they're sure that the want to delete an appointment from their calendar, checking a provided email address is valid or prompting them to save changes before moving t...

TechnologySecurityWork
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Feminists are selfish - obey God's command!

Crystal goes in to what I can only assume is a thorough review of the Bible's coverage of offspring.

Opinion
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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Except we don't really, do we? Sure, people who get cremated turn back to ash, but that's hardly environmentally friendly. The act of cremation is an energy inefficient CO2 spewing act - the last chan...

Environment
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The Living Camera

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