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The number of cases of identity theft is skyrocketing. 10 years ago, it was an unheard of crime, but as technology has advanced, it has become easier for criminals to take advantage of technology that makes identity theft even easier. I’ll bet you didn’t know that a criminal only needs access to a copy of your birth certificate or a lost driver’s license to charge up thousands of dollars in your name.

There are ways to fight identity theft. Credit reporting agencies give you tools to keep people from getting credit under your name without your permission, but these locks are cumbersome to put on. That’s where Lifelock comes in. They can put a lock on your credit file and keep it in place so if someone applies for credit under your name, you will know right away. They also send you out a free credit report on a regular basis so that you know exactly what’s on your credit report at any time.

Best of all, Life Lock has a $1 million dollar service guarantee so that you don’t have to worry about taking a financial hit from identity thieves.

Any kind of traffic ticket can really mess things up for you. It really doesn’t seem to matter if you are in the right or in the wrong, because traditionally it has been very difficult to fight a traffic ticket. The negatives of a traffic ticket are well known. Higher insurance rates seem guaranteed and what’s worse is that your job could even be affected if your drive professionally since the ticket will be on your permanent record. Speeding tickets seem to be the worst.

Sometimes the only choice you have is to fight the ticket. There is a lot of advice out there on how to fight a speeding ticket, but it is difficult to use the advice without someone in your corner. The good news is that drivers in California can get advice from Ticketbust.com. You can fill out a brief form with the particulars of your case and they will review it to see how they can help fight the speeding ticket. If you’ve got a ticket, it’s worth checking them out.

As an update to the trolls on the net post, TEFLWatch, a site that helps teachers even the playing field against unscrupulous employers is under attack by some people who it appears are in the employ of a school. Since the anti-teacher brigade are unable to shut down the site, they have instead resorted to attacking the site by making claims that are filled with lies and deceit. I can only guess that the goal of this anti-teacher brigade is to hurt teachers. Luckily, a site in support of teachers and TEFLWatch has come out.

Ok, designers came up with a better option than trailers for people displaced by natural disasters. Instead of travel trailers, they designed cottages that provide a safe and comfortable place for people to stay in. These cottages are higher quality and more closely resemble a home than a trailer ever could.
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It’s been reported that another American has been deported. He was wanted in the US for the killing of a pregnant woman. Ok, good riddance and glad that he was caught so he can pay for the crimes he committed, but sometimes there is no accounting for brains. He was caught because he went to the embassy to renew his passport.
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This was a reply to a post made in a forum about Internet Filtering in Thailand, I hope it is of use to someone out there. Back in 2001, the then new Prime Minister Thaksin came to power in Thailand. One of the first actions of the new year for the Communications Authority of Thailand(CAT) was enforce their monopoly on international communications. This meant that not only were voice calls subject to their monopoly but also data transmissions and this means the internet.
All of a sudden, all ISP’s were REQUIRED to purchase their internet access from the CAT at a markup. Since all internet access now passed through CAT, internet filtering began. Whenever the Thai Police felt that a website was counter to morals or laws of the Kingdom, they would give the website address to the CAT and the CAT would not allow for connections to be made to it and instead display a police notice.

This kind of filtering was impossible before 2001 because each individual ISP had to be contacted and they had to block the sites, but with only one ISP to deal with, CAT, it is very easy.

That is important to note, there is only 1 International ISP in Thailand, CAT, all others merely resell and repackage CAT access.