Why Google wants your Wi-Fi data

Google Australia will today be sent a "please explain" letter from local privacy advocates demanding to know why it collects home Wi-Fi network data.
More, click this...

http://click.email.technology.fairfax.com.au/?qs=f33203d101001af94ad5d82994a20c39fb71c40d63de0b2a97af42c0547c96ee


Sent from my BlackBerry®powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT

Unwell

I am not feeling well. I've got headache and fever. It"s been a day and the pain's tortured me. So, I don' t have choice and take a painkiller to remove the pain. I am a person who is very against chemical things fed into my body. But, I have to take that chemical tablet because the pain I have is so constant.
Now, while I am writing this post, lying on my bed. Outside is raining. The weather is not friendly. And, I don't want to get sick. That's why I'd just sleep now and hope it would recover me.

P.S. Dave, sorry I couldn't talk last nite and also this morning.
xxxx

Sent from my BlackBerry®powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT

California and Pot

Could marijuana save California? |reportage | World news | The Observer

When I see that, it's like looking at a shed full of cows. I see a whole lot of work," says Jim Hill, opening the little gate into his humid greenhouse in which a forest of marijuana grows, and from which a pungent, heady scent exudes at gale force. Not work as in hard labour, emphasises Hill – though there is a bit of that – but expertise growing some of the most potent weed on the planet.

Nearby there are vineyards and horses graze the sun-stroked farmland, but this verdant hillside near the town of Potter Valley in northern California lies in an area called the Emerald Triangle: three counties bordered by mountains to the east and the Pacific to the west that connect the lyrical terrain north of San Francisco with the wilderness of the Oregon state line. This breathtakingly beautiful corner of earth is the marijuana capital of the western hemisphere thanks to three conspiring factors: its perfect climate; the pervading culture; and topography – this is a maze of mountain dirt roads, locked access gates, isolated villages, secluded slopes and wooded glades, far from prying eyes.

Jim Hill, however, is a respectable figure – neither old stoner nor criminal – and he is not afraid to show off his working practices. "You're just going to have to smell of weed for the rest of the week," he jokes as we clamber through his greenhouse. "Squeeze this," he enthuses, "take a sniff, feel the nice, rich oily texture…"

Ninety-eight per cent of growers would not think this sight possible in late April, he says, indicating the succulent, ripe buds oozing heavy on the branch. "You're looking at icebergs in July." Hill has worked out what to plant when: he talks about daylight hours at this latitude, "plant efficiency" and above all cross-pollination. And no wonder: his other business and passion is as a breeder of greyhounds.

The benefit cheaters are violating the concept of welfare state

I couldn't afford to stay married and lose £200 a week benefits, says mother of seven children by four fathers | Mail Online

Divorcee Mrs Boucher told yesterday how she rakes in more than £30,000 a year in benefits - despite never having worked full-time - and lives in a smart four-bedroom home with her rent and council tax paid for.

But, were she to have a partner, she says she would lose £11,000 of that under the current welfare system which, through means-tested benefits and tax credits, makes it more profitable for those with children to live apart than to cohabit.

Mrs Boucher said: 'I'm better off on my own. You're penalised if you get a man.

'On benefits I get more money, you aren't rewarded for trying to be a normal family - you're better off single.

'I'd warn other mums to stay separated, otherwise you risk losing too much. I doubt I'll have a proper relationship again - I'm too scared of losing my money.'

The single mother claims income support of £44 a week, plus disability allowance of £194 a month, apparently for a back complaint. She also receives child benefits of £74 a week for her five youngest children, and child tax credits amounting to £12,000 a year.

The handouts allow her to spend more than £750 on presents for her children each Christmas.

The younger children have bikes and three computer games consoles to play on, while the family also have a 32-inch flatscreen HD television.

Bukopin CS is crappy

I went to Bukopin asking about Swamitra, and this customer service while explaining to me, she kept picking up phone and talking long. Is she blind? She was serving customer but doing another thing. You are really crappy. Her initial ; CaXXXXm
Right now she is still talking while I am posting this. Bukopin, u should train your officer to be commited to serving the customer.

Sent from my BlackBerry®powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT