Scams on the Internet never cease to amaze me.  Some of them are sophisticated, some subtle, and some are just downright absurd.
I’d recently discovered a mailbox that I had left unattended for several years.  It had no anti-spam tool monitoring it, so it was mostly filled with really obvious spam messages and phishing attempts [...]

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When Google first released the 0.1 version of their Gears browser plug-in back in May 2007, I thought for sure it would be only a matter of a few months before we saw web applications taking full advantage of an offline mode, maybe a year at max.  I think I may have grossly underestimated [...]

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Earlier this week I wrote about Google’s TOS (terms of service) which grant Google an irrevocable right over the content you post through their service.  I took a look at Twitter’s terms of service, and found a rather different story which I thought is worth mentioning:
We claim no intellectual property rights over the material [...]

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