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mikesd81 writes
"The Associated Press writes about a growing network of people online who've gone a step beyond hotels, hostels and even apartment swapping in their travel planning: They sleep on each others' couches. A number of Web sites have sprung up to help pair travelers searching for a place to crash and hosts with a spare couch. Sites like hospitalityclub.org, couchsurfing.com, globalfreeloaders.com and place2stay.net are often free, serving only as middlemen and offering tips on how to find successful matches.
The sites are largely the creations of 20-somethings bitten with wanderlust and the hope of helping to bring together people from different cultures. They often depend on volunteer administrators to help manage the Web operations."
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Martin Jenkins writes:
McAfee are happy to use D.R. Hipp's excellent free SQLite library but won't help him stop their users hassling about temporary files their products leave behind. A number of these users think these files are viruses, have called him at his office and refuse to believe the files are benign. After drawing a blank with McAfee D.R. Hipp made this appeal on the SQlite mailing list.
"I need advice from the community. The problem is seen here:
http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=2049
http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=1989
http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=1841
http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=McafeeProblem
It appears that McAfee Anti-Virus uses SQLite internally, and it leaves lots of files in C:/TEMP that contain SQLite in their names. This annoys many windows users. They get on Google and search around for "sqlite" and find me. Then they send me private email or call me at my office or on my cellphone to complain. Many refuse to believe that I have nothing to do with the problem and I am accused of spreading a virus or malware.
My efforts to contact Mcafee about this problem have been unfruitful.
Does anybody have an suggestions on how I might deal with this? Does anybody know how I can get in touch with an engineer at Mcafee so that we can at least change the names of the files in future releases?"
For McAfee users who want fix this "problem" there's a simple solution — http://www.avira.com/
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dslauson writes:
A devastating blow has been struck this Halloween. A physicist from the University of Central Florida drove a stake through the heart of vampire folklore by disproving their existense mathematically. He also took a stab at ghosts and zombies as well.
As the commentators at The Onion noted, it's perhaps The Count who will be the most dissapointed, betrayed by the very numbers he loves so much.
