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Jun 18, 2009
Television experience in style

Worldwidesatellites.com has consistently remained as an innovative cable service providing company. We have consistently stood as a reputable, well-known company with qualified years of experience since July 2003. We have moved with the fast trend of customers to high-end customer service. You can rely on the services of quality branded products of Conaxsat, Viewsat with a range of products offered right from direct satellite receivers to installation tools and connectors. Innovation is the key to which we look forward to; our latest products include Conaxsat Nano USB PVR. This has the unique and inspiring feature of a personal video recorder wherein you can record videos as well as have the privilege of viewing multiple channel features.


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May 13, 2009
Internet Shopping/Auction Fraud

The Internet is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and offers shopping that can be just convenience as a supermarket or mail orders if you buy from a responsible and reputable business over a secure web-server. Your credit card information is protected by encryption during transmission and cannot be seen by anyone ¡V not even the seller in some cases. But it is important that you know who you're conducting business with, what security features they offer, their privacy policy, and their return or refund procedure. Criminals are making use of the convenient shopping business to exploit their victims. Many victims pay their money in e-auction but cannot get what they have purchased. On the other hand, e-shop operators have failed to receive the money after they have delivered their goods as criminals are using either forged or stolen payment cards to settle their purchases.

Safety Tips

     
  • Do check the terms and disclaimers of an e-shopping site before acquiring its service, e.g. check statements for personal privacy.
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  • Do choose e-shopping sites of providing well-known or trusted services.
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  • Do notice key measures on providing information or making purchasing on a web site:   
             
    • Informed consent on personal information
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    • Seals of Approval applied (e.g. TRUSTe or WebTrust)   
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  • Do check security of e-commerce website before submitting                           personal information and transaction (e.g. SSL, https, lock icon in browser, the issuing authority of certificate)
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  • Do apply for a Digital Certificate for electronic transactions
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  • Do consider using Encryption to protect sensitive data transmitted over public networks and the Internet.
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  • Do keep transaction records. Most e-commerce sites present you with a summary of your transaction before you click a Send or Buy button. Print this out or save it as a file to refer to later if necessary.
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  • Do avoid submitting any data that is irrelevant for the purposes for which it is being collected. Be particularly cautious if asked for personal information, such as credit card or bank account numbers.
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  • Do be alert to the latest news on sites that are famous for suspicious or labeled as "bad sites".
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  • Don't download data from doubtful sources.
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  • Don't try to visit untrustworthy sites out of curiosity
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  • Don't forget to check the privacy policy of a web site, ensuring that the personal data you provided is properly used and protected.

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May 2, 2009
Bogus Websites

There exist on the Internet many bogus sites which are very cleverly designed to look like the real website. They even use very similar domain names as the genuine websites. The main purpose of these websites is to make you believe that they are either the original company /organization or subsidiaries with a view to deceiving you to join in their bogus business.

Examples are bogus cyber banks and investment house in which culprits created the websites with features of a mix of legitimate text and logo taken from a genuine website, say a bank. Then solicit potential victims throughout the world by e-mail and letters offered bank accounts and service similar to those of a legitimate bank. These banks may be used by culprits as a mean of added creditability in order to lure their victims to join into the plots. Again once money has been paid into any investment plan or service, the cyber bank will disappear.


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May 1, 2009
Cat's Role in Ancient Egypt

Cats known in Ancient Egypt as the miw played a large role in olden Egyptian society. Beginning as a wild, untamed species, cats were useful for keeping down rats populations in the Egyptians' crops and harvests; through exposure to humans, the cat population became domesticated over time and learned to coexist with the human population. The people inhabiting the area which would later become unified and known as Upper and Lower Egypt had a religion centering on the worship of animals, of which the cat became one.

 

Originally praised for its aid to humans in controlling rats and its ability to fight and kill snakes, the domesticated cat slowly became a symbol of grace and poise. The goddess Mafdet, the deification of justice and execution, was a fierce lion-headed goddess. The cat goddess Bast finally replaced the cult of Mafdet, and Bast's image softened over time and she became the deity representing protection, fertility, and motherhood.

 

As a revered animal and one very important to Egyptian society and religion, the cat was afforded the same mummification after death as humans. Mummified cats were given in offering to Bast; in 1888, an Egyptian farmer accidentally uncovered a large tomb containing tens of thousands of mummified cats and kittens. This discovery outside the town of Beni Hasan contained around eighty thousand cat mummies, dating back to 1000-2000 BC.


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