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The Australian Government Made An Atrociously Bad PSA On Cyber-Security And It's Painful To Watch
How do you like to receive your information on so-called cyber-security? If you like it to be outdated, littered with terrible puns and just a little bit racist? If you answered yes, you’re awful and will love this atrociously bad public service announcement from the Government about how to protect your digital assets and online identity.
Huawei Wi-Fi Cube 4G: Australian Review
If you can’t get ADSL or cable or NBN internet at home, or if you don’t need that much data per month over the ‘net, and you live relatively close to a city or metropolitan area, a 4G mobile broadband device might suit your needs very well. These usually come in the form of a Wi-Fi hotspot, portable and battery-powered, but this Huawei Wi-Fi Cube is designed to live in your home and connect everything in it wirelessly to the internet through Vodafone 4G.
How Adblock Plus Is Becoming A Source Of Internet Advertising
Before Adblock Plus bloomed into existence in 2006, going anywhere online could be a flashing, ad-filled nightmare. Adblock Plus offered a way out of the commercial chaos, and blocked ad revenue from websites in the process. But now it’s opening up the gates — and allowing a few choice advertisers through, for a price.
This Genius Figured Out How To Drift Hot Wheels Cars
With enough imagination, a Hot Wheels or Matchbox die-cast car can do almost anything. But in real life, their abilities are limited to pretty much just rolling forward. Unless they’re in the hands of Phil Foss who’s actually found a way to get Hot Wheels and other toy cars to drift around corners like Ken Block was at the wheel.
Study Finds Record Labels Take Most Of The Streaming Money From Artists
Streaming music is controversial amongst many musicians who claim that they don’t get a fair shake of the revenue that’s being pulled in. A new study of the music industry by the French recording industry confirms suspicions that at least part of the reason artists are getting screwed is because labels are taking all the money.
Meet The Street Dealers Who Peddle Bitcoin
My dealer was 15 minutes late. Maybe he wasn’t even coming. I tried to comfort myself: Getting stood up by a Bitcoin dealer is, on the getting-stood-up spectrum, significantly less soul-torquing than getting ditched by a date, but worse than getting freezed-out by a drug dealer, which is, I feel, somewhat inevitable due to the vagaries of the narcotic supply chain. Still.
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