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Ok so I am sure it sounded better when Regan said similar words, but Russia has agreed to take down it’s cheap mp3 sites.

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Check out the new, easy way to share your wishlist online!

Kaboodle is the best place to organize your online shopping:

• Collect items you find anywhere on the web
• Keep all of your shopping in one place
• Stay up to date on what your friends are shopping for

Most gift sites try to sell you whatever they have in inventory. Surprise.com is different…they aren’t a store and they don’t sell anything. Surprise.com is a database of unique gift ideas from hundreds of different websites, maintained by an expert editorial staff. They locate the best gifts, and then point you to the trusted merchants that sell them.

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Anyone with a Broadcom chip in their wireless network card (that includes MOST laptops from Dell computers, HP & IBM that aren’t using Intel Centrino), many Linksys cards, and cards from most other vendors… you could very well have a critical security vulnerability that can be exploited wirelessly. Since this is a NIC driver vulnerability, a hacker can gain total control of your system EVEN IF IT IS FULLY PATCHED, and even if you have the best firewall and antivirus in the world. Nothing will help you.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=365

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Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Vista, the software giant’s first major upgrade of its operating system in five years, is complete and will be available to retail customers on January 30, a senior executive said on Wednesday, November 8th.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061108/tc_nm/microsoft_vista_dc