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If you want to sell anything, online or in a brick and mortar store, you really need to accept major credit cards. Few people carry much cash these days, and check fraud has become so widespread that many merchants have stopped accepting checks altogether. 
Would you pay five million dollars for a 500GB hard drive? Hard drives are the workhorses of mass storage, and virtually every computer has one. There are dozens of hard drive manufacturers worldwide. So it's not surprising that competition and technology improvements have driven hard drive prices to all-time record lows. That's good news. 
A reader asks: "I've heard about 'free-to-air' satellite TV channels you can receive if you have a satellite dish. Is this true? If so, what channels can I get, what equipment do I need, and is it legal?" If you're paying for satellite TV service, it may surprise you to learn that there's a free version, too. 
How many acres are there in 124 hectares of land? The answer might not have mattered often in the past, but today's global economy often requires conversion of measurement units from one country, culture or discpline into another's. 
Is it true that the new iPhone 4 can actually levitate? Are people tiling their bathroom floors with spare iPads? And is there a secret way to make the Google home page less boring? 
Facebook faces a mutiny from its millions of users. The company has outraged, exasperated, and frightened almost every user who has paid any attention to recent changes in his or her Facebook connections and privacy settings. 
