Archive for the 'Computer' Category

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

Privacy Law Differences

Different laws apply in different countries but the internet is starting to blur the boundaries. There have been a number of cases recently where the USA has commenced legal proceedings against someone who lives in some other country and who perhaps has never even visited the USA because of something that the person offers via [...]

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

Computer Phone Scams

I just had a phone call from someone claiming to represent Microsoft claiming that they had been receiving lots of error reports from my computer. Now I happen to know for certain that any such reports would not get out through the firewall and that therefore such reports would not be coming from my computer. [...]

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

NBN

An interesting article in today’s paper about how the world’s richest man who is currently visiting Australia has claimed that the $43 billion for the NBN is too expensive. Of course he’d say that given the industry that he has made all his money in. By comparison a prior world’s richest man by the name [...]

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

LOL

One of the problems with abbreviations such as this is that they can mean different things to different people. What this particular abbreviation means depends on the age of the person receiving it. To older people this is the abbreviation for “Lots Of Love” while for younger people it means “Laugh Out Loud”. So now [...]