The fake-check scam is alive and all too well on Craigslist. Usually, it involves a buyer sending a check to a seller in an amount larger than the price, with a request that the overage be wired back.
Source: LATimes
Tags: fake+check+scam
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The OpenAjax Alliance has come up with a "Future Browser Feature Wish List" that currently tallies 37 features that Web developers deem necessary for future browsers to take the Web to the next level.
Tags: openajax+alliance, browsers
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A TECHNOLOGICAL breakthrough by University of Sydney scientists could lead to people downloading the latest movie in a few seconds or chatting with small, cheap, video systems.
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Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet’s Domain Name System architecture, has some advice for those in any doubt about the seriousness of a weakness in the DNS protocol that was disclosed yesterday: Patch your DNS servers right now.
Tags: dns+protocol
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Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum, released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. It already has support from many organizations (including Yahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities. The first 23 articles are currently available, with about 30 more to be published between now and late September.
Tags: web+standards+project, yahoo+developer+network, web+standards+curriculum
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Alex Payne, a 24-year-old Internet engineer here, has devised a way to answer a commonly asked question of the digital age: Is my favorite Web site working today?
Tags: alex+payne, downforeveryoneorjustme
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