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From the moment you're born, you enter the data stream-from birth certificates to medical records to what you bought on Amazon last week. As your dossier grows, so do the threats, from identity thieves to government snoops to companies who want to sell you something. Computer Privacy Annoyances shows you how to regain control of your life. You'll learn how to keep private information private, stop nosy bosses, get off that incredibly annoying mailing list, and more. Unless you know what data is available about you and how to protect it, you're a sitting duck. Computer Privacy Annoyances is your guide to a safer, saner, and more private life.Written by privacy pro Dan Tynan, and based on interviews with privacy experts from all over the globe, Compute...

Teaches you how to develop Java programs, from start to finish, for connecting to databases using Java's new database connectivity environment, JDBC. Tells how to easily install drivers for most databases. Features a section on programming ODBC Java programs, including a robust ODBC client template for developing your own applications. Features a handy, ready-to-use Interactive SQL query client, including fully-explained and annotated source code. Teaches how to write your own database drivers for the JDBC. Reveals how to optimize your Java database programs for maximum efficiency and minimum time....

No matter how flexible and convenient digital information has become, we haven't done away with the need to see information in print. Extensible Style Language-Formatting Objects, or Xsl-Fo, is a set of tools developers and web designers use to describe page printouts of their Xml (including Xhtml) documents. If you need to produce high quality printed material from your Xml documents, then Xsl-Fo provides the bridge. Xsl-Fo is one of the few books to go beyond a basic introduction to the technology. While many books touch on Xsl-Fo in their treatment of Xslt, this book offers in-depth coverage of Xsl-Fo's features and strengths. Author Dave Pawson is well known in the Xslt and Xsl-Fo communities, and maintains the Xslt Faq. An online version of this...

If you think you're well versed in Asp.Net, think again. This exceptional guide gives you a master class in site building with Asp.Net 3.5 and other cutting-edge Microsoft technologies. You learn how to develop rock-solid web portal applications that can withstand millions of hits every day while surviving scalability and security pressures -- not just for mass-consumer homepages, but also for dashboards that deliver powerful content aggregation for enterprises. Written by Omar Al Zabir, co-founder and Cto of Pageflakes, Building a Web 2.0 Portal with Asp.Net 3.5 demonstrates how to develop portals similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, and Pageflakes using Asp.Net 3.5, Asp.Net Ajax, Windows Workflow Foundation, Linq and .Net 3.5. Through the course of the b...