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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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- Man sues Microsoft over porn browsing history. The poor guy gets busted by the FBI, who recover data from his hard drive despite him having IE set to delete his history every 5 days, and is now suing Microsoft for 259,000 because it wasn't actually deleted.
Here's a quick computer lesson people - unless particularly specified, nothing is really deleted from your computer when you push the delete button, even when you empty the recycle bin. What actually happens is the computer marks that file as deleted, and hides it when you go looking for files so you only see the non-deleted files. Only when new data is written, may the marked-as-deleted file be overwritten. The uncertainty is because hard drives these days are so big that the chances of the hard drive picking that particular location to overwrite is unlikely until you start filling up your hard drive.
- Palm snaps up ex-Apple designer. Oooh... competition's heating up for the iPhone. The iPhone may not be so revolutionary after all when it finally comes out, especially for the wider world.
- FlashFog blinds thiefs from stealing your car. Here's a novel idea, when your alarm is triggered, FlashFog releases club-style fog into the car, making it hard to see anything in the car. It also triggers a strobe light that flashes 'twelve times a second'. Ouch.
- Internet confession booth. From TechCrunch, SocialMoth is one of the startups from incubator Y Combinator. The premise of the site is that you and your friends sign up, and then you can submit confessions to the site. Your friends automatically get emailed the confession, but they have no idea who its from. It's comment enabled too, which makes it interesting.
Not sure how many other similar sites there are out there, but it'd be kinda cool if there was a site where you can pick a set topic, then people can post rumours/fact on to the site (noting whether its fact or fiction), and viewers have to deduce how many are fact and how many are fiction for that topic.