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Submission + - How to disable mobile phone spy-ware?

Submitted by WhiteHorse-The Origi on Saturday October 10, 2009 @08:07AM

WhiteHorse-The Origi writes: I've been searching the www and can't find an answer to this. How does one disable the ability of phone providers to remotely activate your microphone and effectively spy on you?

I presume it is a software/OS thing and by getting an open system like Android, one could theoretically disable this feature in the source code.

Submission + - Ten Myths About Outsourcing and Offshoring (digitalnetworking.biz)

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WhiteHorse-The Origi

on Saturday October 25, 2008 @05:44AM

WhiteHorse-The Origi writes: "This article describes the ten myths of outsourcing and off-shoring for people new to the practice and explains why they are myths. It describes the unethical exploitation of weak labor and environmental laws by corporations and how they contribute to dictators, aristocracies, and generally evil people through this practice."

Submission + - US Patent office glitch Fart=Part (digitalnetworking.biz)

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WhiteHorse-The Origi

on Sunday August 26, 2007 @01:54AM

WhiteHorse-The Origi writes: "The US Patent and Trademark Office has a glitch in their Optical Character Recognition(OCR) software which confuses "P" with "F". Consequently, all patents which contain the word "Part" can be found by searching for the word "Fart". By submission of this article, the author in no way admits searching the patent office for the word Fart."

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