Interesting article on personal support via impersonal website:

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Dear sir/madam,
I am writing you to complain about the new ministry of sound website and the lack of data protection with regards to your users.

Earlier today I received an email notification about the new MoS website. The email also notified me that a new password was issued to use on the website. These are two characteristics of a phishing mail - in this case launching a new website and sending out new passwords, they could easily have been sent from a malicious source wanting me to login to their MoS-lookalike website and take my credit card details. You shouldn't send out a new password unless someone requests it on your website, because email can be forged. You also sent out my password in plain text email rather than on a secure part of your website. Anyone can read it and login to my account and purchase orders.

Also to my surprise while investigating the source of the mail, several of the links point to a http://www.c-f-1.com/ domain (update: this domain name no longer exists!), the name doesn't help to improve the trust in your email. To my astonishment the link led to a webpage with the html email, again with my password in plain sight. Have a look (link removed), I changed my password already. Let's wait for Google to index it so that anyone can search for my account information. They already found other newsletters.

Finally, I used mosdownload.com to buy my mp3s online. This site no longer works as an error comes up when it tries to redirect, due to a configuration error. My order history is gone, most of my profile is gone.

I'm very disappointed with your lack of security and care for your customers and unfortunately have come to the conclusion that I won't be using your service again, and I will recommend my friends and family to do the same, due to these trust issues.

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James Houston, a Glasgow School of Art's graphic design graduate created a  live performance of Radiohead - Nude on a bunch of pc components. Very impressive.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX

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I'd like to start recommending webservices  and software that I use frequently. Any product recommended has been evaluated for at least several weeks. In today's recommended we feature Instapaper. (Recommendation articles are personal opinions with no benefit for the author)

What does Instapaper do? Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content.

We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them.

Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.

http://www.instapaper.com/

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• It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament
• It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down
• In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store
• Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day
• In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter
• A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet
• The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen
• It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing
• It is illegal to enter the houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
• In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow

Sourced from BBC thanks to Cybernetnews

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