Archive for July, 2009

Glitch hits Visa users with more than $23 quadrillion charge – CNN.com

NEW YORK (CNN) — A technical snafu left some Visa prepaid cardholders stunned and horrified Monday to see a $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge on their statements. via Glitch hits Visa users with more than $23 quadrillion charge – CNN.com.

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12% of e-mail users have actually tried to buy stuff from spam – Ars Technica

Good luck trying to find an Internet user who admits to responding to spam. Still, they’re out there, and in pretty good numbers. According to a new report, a full 12 percent of Internet users have actually wanted to pay for some product or service being advertised by e-mail. via 12% of e-mail users have [...]

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50 Beautifully Delicious Coffee Designs | Webdesigner Depot

50 Beautifully Delicious Coffee Designs | Webdesigner Depot.

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xkcd – A Webcomic – Sheeple

xkcd – A Webcomic – Sheeple.

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U.S. Postal Service Gives Stamp of Approval To FOSS

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has switched 1,300 of the servers that manage its package tracking system to a Linux environment. The move has taken the better part of a year since all the original system code was written in Cobol and had to be converted for Linux — a less expensive option than rewriting [...]

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