Antiguan Government to offer Warez to the World

In a world of ridikulouse announcements, I came across the following article at a tech site. Essentially it states that due to failing Gambling economy in Antigua caused by the United States of America, the Antiguan government is looking to be reimbursed by offering copyright materials online - I'm assuming that this is similar to how warez sites operate. This has all started when the multi-billion gambling industry was stopped by the United States...

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Unlocked Phones with a Plan - A transparent business model

As you may already be aware, the 26th of January 2012 is the day that ends the "free carrier unlocks" in the USA. So from here on, you could serve time if you attempt to unlock your phone yourself. This marks the end of the 90 day period provided by the Library of Congress, who oversees matters related Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Personally, whenever I purchase a phone I ensure that the phone is unlocked from the carrier, and if it is locked to a carrier I request that for the phone to be unlocked. In my case, I generally purchase...

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Keen to build my new computer

Now that I have my monitors sorted out, I'm really keen to get my new computer built. The last time I had upgraded my computer was in 2006, and I've pretty much used the same specs (apart from adding 16 gigs of additional ram and the usual harddrive upgrade), and the PSU upgrade. However, it just shows that unless there's a dying need to a dual core CPU with adequate amount of ram can still hold it's own after 6 years. In the early 2000, computers...

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LG IPS277L : Fantastic Display with limited Inclusions

I was recently working on a number of images and noticed that the color reproduction on my existing 21" Dell monitor, that was purchased over 6 years ago, had started to deteriorate. After looking through a number of monitors I decided to go for a set of 27" monitors, to keep in line with my dual 21" monitor setup. From the wide array of the available monitors, the non-korean based monitors, I started paying a close attention to the LG IPS277L...

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