"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."Charles Barkley
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Fish Creek House Bed and Breakfast - Making Montana Memories
Fish Creek House - A Childhood Dream Come true Cid Busarow WHITEHALL -- Cid Busarow fulfilled a childhood dream when she moved to Montana last May. Another dream was reached two weeks ago when she and her husband, Dan, opened Fish Creek House, a bed and ...
Laptop Computers and the PVP Effect!
Roll over lumbering desktop computers, the limber laptop is here, and it's here to stay! For a while now notebooks have outstripped their ageing desktop PC siblings, easily winning the gold medal in the computer sales olympics. We will illustrate how the ...
The Future Of VOIP
VOIP's First Hurdle With all the advantages of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), there is still 1 drawback -- it cannot give you total wireless phone communication like a cell phone. Cell phones and VOIP seem to be 2 different animals. True, you can ...
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Identity Theft and Your Personal Information
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Identity theft is apparently the "in thing" these days. By
media accounts, hackers and evildoers lurk everywhere trying
to steal your personal information. In the past few months,
one company after another is being forced to admit customer
data has been lost or stolen.
In many cases, they have then come forth repeatedly over the
next few weeks, or even months revising the estimated number
of impacted customers. To date, I don't think any have ever
lowered those numbers.
Identity Theft and Respected Companies
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Generally speaking, these aren't fly-by-night organizations.
These are respected companies who we've come to trust. In
many instances, the loss wasn't even the work of a
"malicious hacker" or other mystical force beyond their
control; it was simple carelessness. The frequency of such
reports of identity theft is making it difficult for
consumers to feel confident in those with whom we do
business. Customers are outraged that companies are not
doing more to protect their information from the forces of
evil.
You and Your Personal Information
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What about you? How are you at keeping you personal
information under wraps? Some of these high profile
incidents were the result of a trivial mistake that could
have happened to anyone, including you.
Let's consider two events that didn't make the front page of
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