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Web Bugs & Your Privacy

Mick Meaney June 5, 2009 0

Web bugs are small bits of code embedded in Websites that add functionality and share information. They’re almost impossible to ignore, but Jim Rapoza has some advice for keeping your privacy healthy nonetheless. Achooo!

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UK on target to tackle global warming, apparently

Mick Meaney June 5, 2009 0

The UK is on target to exceed its Kyoto commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 12.5 per cent, according to a report. The Department of Energy and Climate Change has indicated that UK

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Sir Alan Sugar ‘to receive peerage’

Mick Meaney June 5, 2009 0

Sir Alan Sugar will receive a peerage as part of a new enterprise role in the Government, a source said today. The businessman, who has been in talks with the Prime Minister, is expected

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The Ugly Side of Globalization: Slavery

Mick Meaney June 5, 2009 0

The offer came to families on the edge of desperation, living and working around the clock on garbage dumps whose sickening stench seeps into their clothes. A motherly woman accompanied by a kindly gentleman

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Speed cameras on U.S. highways?

Mick Meaney June 5, 2009 3

You may already have seen an ominous looking radar and camera perched atop a traffic light in your neighborhood. And almost all drivers have seen a patrol car cruising a freeway looking for speeders,

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