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Archive for August, 2008


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FTC Rule Change Will Reduce Prerecorded Telemarketing Messages

It’s not even Uncle Bubba talking about his new job making tv stands, It’s a telemarketer. Worse than that, it’s a prerecorded message with somebody reading a telemarketing script.

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Cellphones In the Sticks

Contrary to what a lot of people will say, life out here in the sticks is actually pretty good. Everything is on a slower pace and there isn’t nearly as much traffic and pollution as you have in just about any larger city.

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How To Get Rid of the XP Search Puppy

From 95 onward windows has always had a reasonable search function. It’s evolved over the years a bit here and a bit there and then along came XP. One of the things I hate about the XP version is that blasted animated dog.

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Homemade Fusion Reactors

There’s actually a small but growing group of people, amateur scientists, that are working on building fusion reactors. Quite a few of them have actually built working fusion reactors in their basements and attic labs.

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Lego Version of Beijing 2008

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In the event that you didn’t get have your passport in order so that you could go to Beijing for the Olympics and also managed to not see any of the television and Internet based coverage [...]

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Is Voter’s Knowledge of Science Enough?

USA Today has an article that asks if the average voter has enough accurate knowledge about science to be able to intelligently vote on issues that require such knowledge in order to know what you’re voting about?

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Web Companies Tracking Users Patterns Without Consent

Is it any surprise that Google has confirmed that they are indeed using DoubleClick tracking cookies to keep track of people’s web surfing habits and putting that information to use in refining their advertising?

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Why I Use GnuPG Over PGP

I’ve been catching up on my mail and one list I read [PGP-Basics] has been particularly busy of late. The bulk of this traffic seems to have started in a thread in which somebody wanted to know which PGP version they should use.

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It’s Just Not The Same

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Y’know, staying in the hospital isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, even if you’re NOT the patient. For one thing even when you discount the expense involved and the circumstances under which you’re there even the best hospital can’t even hold a candle to cheap hotels when it comes [...]

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Blaze Media Pro

While Blaze Media Pro isn’t freeware, It’s wide range of capabilities easily make up for it. Whether you just want to rip your CD’s so you can have the music on your iPod or flash drive or you’d like to convert existing audio files to another format. Perhaps you’ve got a collection of your musical creations that you want to burn to CD, This media suite has the goods.

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