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Canceling accounts you’ve created on the Web isn’t always easy. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to ditch social networks, online retailers, blogging services, and more.

Despite public statements to the contrary, Apple did lay off around 50 enterprise salespeople last week, CNET News has learned. Sources who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal confirmed reports by Valleywag and 9to5Mac.com that roughly 50 salespeople were let go by the company for “business and economic reasons”.

The Pirate Party has gathered a huge following in Sweden. More than half of all men under 30 are considering voting for the party in the upcoming European Parliament elections. However, being affiliated with the party is not without risks – even in a democracy.

Warning: This clip is a piece of Samsung marketing material.Warning 2: It’s actually pretty fracking amazing, and it might change your view of computers.

If you happen to be in Austin for SXSW this weekend, come check out the second annual Bigg Digg Shindigg at Stubbs on 3/14. Doors open at 6:30pm. Also at the conference, several Digg employees will be speaking on various panels throughout the week.

ColdWetDog writes “It’s not Sigourney Weaver tossing aliens about, but The Register has an interesting blurb about a real human-capable exoskeleton that looks pretty cool (Lockheed-Martin press release). Runs for three hours at 3 mph on internal batteries; max speed is 7 mph. Of course, no price is listed but I suppose if you have to ask you can’t afford it. Team this up with a Big Dog and you’ve got the ultimate high-tech cross-country team. Bring your own batteries. Or just wait for your jetpack to arrive.”

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David Gerard writes “The Microsoft Certified Partner model is: an MCP buys contracts from Microsoft and sells them to businesses as a three-year timed contract, payable in annual installments. Iceland’s economy has collapsed, so 1500 businesses have gone bankrupt and aren’t paying the fees any more. But Microsoft has told the MCPs: ‘Our deal was with you, not them. Pay up.’ The MCPs that don’t go bankrupt in turn are moving headlong to Free Software, taking most of the country with them. (Warning: link contains strong language and vivid imagery.)”

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We can’t show you solutions for every problem that might arise, but we *can* show some of the common issues people face and, more importantly, show you how to go about identifying a problem. So here’s our guide to dealing with some of the most common problems, and some advice on how to deal with new disasters. Don’t miss it!

Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium, deployed the first practical, web-based implementation of a secure, verifiable…

Glyn Moody writes “Not content with snooping on all Internet activity, the UK government now wants to introduce changes to the contentious EU Telecoms Package, which will kill net neutrality in the EU: ‘Amendments to the Telecoms Package circulated in Brussels by the UK government, seek to cross out users’ rights to access and distribute Internet content and services. And they want to replace it with a “principle” that users can be told not only the conditions for access, but also the conditions for the use of applications and services. The amendments, if carried, would reverse the principle of end-to-end connectivity which has underpinned not only the Internet, but also European telecommunications policy, to date.’ To add to the irony, an accompanying text cuts and pastes from Wikipedia, without attribution.”

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