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Submission + - MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search

Submitted by

gbulmash

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @11:27PM

gbulmash writes: "In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

Submission + - Zero Tolerance Firing

Submitted by

TheSHAD0W

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @09:45PM

TheSHAD0W writes: "A friend of mine was working as a consultant for a power company in Michigan. Awakened early this morning on an emergency call, unable to log on remotely to fix their emergency response software, he asked whether he needed to "smack one of those guys in the head at network security". He was fired for that remark."

The Secrets of Firefox about:config 263

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @07:45PM from the Mozilla-fu dept.

jcatcw writes "While Firefox is very customizable, many of its settings aren't in the Options. Each setting is named and stored as a string, integer, or Boolean in a file called prefs.js and accessed via about:config from the nav bar. Computerworld provides instructions on 20 tweaks for speeding up page loads, making tabs behave, reducing memory drain, and generally making the interface act the way you want it to. Customization also comes through the must-have FF extensions (but be sure to skip these)."

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