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Mystery shopper site settles with FTCOpen in New Window
"A Web-based operation that promised customers they could make big money as mystery shoppers will pay US$850,000 to settle charges of deceptive advertising and contempt brought by the U.S...." read more »
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Wikipedia mystery: Who was improving Palin’s entry?Open in New Window
Richard Koman from ZDNet writes that twenty-four hours before John McCain announce that Sarah Palin was his choice for running mate, someone made numerous changes on her Wikipedia page. According to Wikipedia editor Justin Diehl "Someone spent hours essentially rewriting the article in a way that comes across better but also much more favorably. I dug a little deeper and it became clear that this account had only ever been used to make these changes to a single article on a single candidate. At Wikipedia that's usually a pretty big red flag." read more »
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Mystery explained: Why you have to reboot Windows so oftenOpen in New Window
Ed Burnette suggests one reason Windows requires frequent reboots is because Bill Gates never experienced the issue. According to a 2003 memo, Gates rebooted his machine every night avoiding the slow-down/required reboot issues that so often plague Windows users. read more »
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