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Tragically, this practice is not limited to Commonwealth Bank. I have had similar cold calls from Citibank and various telecom companies who all start out with wanting to verify my account details. Fu…

A few more can be found here with black-and-white overlays: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219584/Ghosts-war-A... http://www.mymodernmet.com/profil…

When I read this story the first thing that sprung to mind was Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu, described by Wired magazine as "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer…

While perhaps not a Java webapp, Stormpath offers a User Management API that may fit your need: https://stormpath.com/

This seems to be the modus operandi of both government and corporations nowadays. First a short-sighted idea is implemented then if an uproar ensues, apologize and reverse. Thus it is important to ens…

George Orwell's book "1984" (written 1948 and prior to the formation of North Korea) outlines a state eerily similar to North Korea with its erasure of people's past, punishment fo…

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Welcome to 24/7 customer service - a sales rep handling multiple chat sessions and failing to context switch between them.

Looks like that number is in base-36 instead of base-10 (decimal). Using http://www.unitconversion.org/numbers/base-10-to-base-36-con... yields number 80113871 as the last 8 digi…

What a wonderful story and presentation - thanks for telling it.

When checking out the site that was mentioned in the article, I mispelled the URL slightly and ended up at mikerowsoft.com which the AVG virus scanner reported as an "attack" page. Now there…