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Hello there! My name is Chloe a newbie here. I am currently looking for a health & safety advisor. It was my pleasure to give some information. Thank you!

Hi all, I'm currently thinking about how to make a thread safe queue. Specified as such: [LIST] [*]Single reader [*]Multiple writers [*]Dynamically sized [*]Suitable for both a reader sleeping on a queue or as a polled queue [/LIST] So what I'm looking at so far (pseudo)code wise is the following …

This function I did to improve calculator program by eliminating problems with Pythons problem of dividing integer with integer and giving integer division result.

Hi I have a static collection class being observed by a number of observers. The objects in the collection are updated when events occur in a 3rd party application and to which the class subscribes. I inform the observers about any changes to the collection, or objects within the collection, …

According to Facebook's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, safety is the social networking site's top priority. Indeed, he [URL="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=381246352130"]says[/URL] that his team are dedicated to "creating an environment where people can connect and share comfortably" and has revealed a redesigned Safety Centre which provides new safety resources for parents, educators, …

As Safer Internet Day comes to a close, one expert in the field warns that there can be no safety without security. John Colley is managing director of [URL="http://www.isc2.org/"](ISC)2[/URL], a non profit organisation which runs a program helping volunteers visit schools, clubs and parent evenings. They also support council appointed …

Hi, I am quite new to the world of computers and am looking for some advice. I have a Server which is networked to 5 other machines. On this server we have private databases etc and i would like to password specific folders or indeed the whole hard drive of …

According to a survey by [URL="http://www.BroadbandChoices.co.uk"]BroadbandChoices.co.uk[/URL], most parents in the UK are not actively monitoring what their kids are up to when using the Internet. In fact, while 40 percent of kids between the ages of 11 and 16 use Facebook and MySpace, 45 percent make new friends in chatrooms …

Yesterday was, so am I told, [URL="http://www.saferinternet.org"]Safer Internet Day 2008[/URL]. A global initiative driven by the likes of the Virtual Global Taskforce (a network of law enforcement agencies around the planet that work to protect kids online and make the Internet a safer place) and the Child Exploitation and Online …

So a US Federal Judge says that [URL="http://www.myspace.com/"]MySpace [/URL]is legally protected from any liability as a result of external criminal acts that have been committed by people misrepresenting themselves to other MySpace users. Judge Sam Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western district of Texas ruled that the …

More than 7 million Sony batteries have now been recalled since the middle of August when Dell made its big 4.1 million battery recall announcement, a figure which has risen to 4.2 million over the weekend interestingly enough. Toshiba has now joined the feeding frenzy by recalling 830,000 laptop batteries; …

[I]I’m the trouble starter, notebook instigator. I’m the Dell addicted, Sony illustrated. I’m a fire-starter, notebook fire-starter. You’re the fire-starter, notebook fire-starter.[/I] With apologies to The Prodigy for ruining a perfectly good lyric, but it does serve to highlight the problem de jour: that of flaming laptops. If you thought …