Unlike our patriot forbears, we do not have to resort to extreme measures. But we do need an uprising of the American public demanding that our elected representatives do their jobs. By e-mail, letters, phone calls or speaking out at town meetings, we must make our voices heard.
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
It's time for a modern Boston Tea Party.
160Mbps down / 120Mbps up cable speeds coming
Cable modem speed freaks, be patient. One analyst predicts that by 2011, only 40 percent of consumers will be able to take advantage of the higher speeds offered by DOCSIS 3.0. DOCSIS 3.0 achieves its speed boost in part through "channel bonding" (using more than one channel to transmit data) for both up- and downstream transmission.
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The computer spy that steals your passwords and credit details
ABOUT three weeks ago, Cheryl Lambert bought a £179 surfboard on eBay for her daughter. Soon after, she noticed her computer started to behave erratically and within a few days it had ground to a halt. A few days after her desktop machine was unplugged from the internet, Lambert�s personal details appeared on a Russian website.
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Monday, September 04, 2006
How BitTorrent Works
BitTorrent is a protocol that enables fast downloading of large files using minimum Internet bandwidth. It costs nothing to use and includes no spyware or pop-up advertising. This article examines how BitTorrent works and how it is different from other file-distribution methods. It also discusses BitTorrent's future on the Internet.
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Gmail as an MP3 jukebox
"I tend to email myself a lot of MP3s. Today, I did it for the first time using my Gmail account, and was pleasantly surprised to find an embedded play button directly in the mail item. Clicking on it brings up a Google Video style player that streams your MP3 from Gmail�s server."
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'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin killed by stingray
CAIRNS, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
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One Watt Light Bulbs!
LED light bulb replacements are here! LEDison lamps are being used to replace 10 to 60w incandescent bulbs in commercial applications (like shopping malls). The LED lamps have ten times the service life of the incandescents they replace, and use only 1 watt!
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PC to Linux via USB OS, what to do when you need to borrow a friends PC
The experience is never pleasant - foreign desktop settings, grimy keyboards, crazy font sizes and odd wallpaper - it's liken to borrowing someone's swim trunks. If you're a Linux desktop user and are forced to use someone's Windows machine, the experience may be more on par with borrowing a toothbrush.
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Rock Music Boosts Your Brain Power
LONG suffering parents of adolescents might not agree, but scientists claim that listening to rock music can boost your brain power. Researchers at a Scottish university believe that contrary to received wisdom, children who listen to loud rock or pop music while swotting for exams are probably improving their chances of success.
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Want to Improve Education? Let Kids Sleep
This controversy over early school start times is raging in hundreds of communities today, pitting parents against unbending school bureaucracies. Surveys of teen's parents in school districts with early start times find that as many as 90% favor a later starting bell. Research confirms that lack of sleep in adolescents has become a problem.
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Sunday, September 03, 2006
Grappling Over Minimum Wage Builds
Some Republican lawmakers, particularly those facing tough re-election fights, want another chance to back an increase from the current $5.15 an hour, a move that would deprive Democrats of a major campaign talking point. "After 10 years, good grief, it's not like we're increasing it in a way that would cause unemployment."
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MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands
The goal is to be one of the biggest digital music stores out there," MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe told Reuters. "Everyone we've spoken to definitely wants an alternative to iTunes and the iPod. MySpace could be that alternative.
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Going For Broke: How Ordinary Families Wind Up Bankrupt
Last year, the number of personal bankruptcies ballooned to two million as people rushed to beat last deadline for a new law that made it harder and more expensive for consumers to declare themselves broke. 90% of the families who file for bankruptcy do so following a job loss, a medical problem or a family torn apart by death or divorce.
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Partystrands aims to be Last.fm + Digg for the jukebox
Partystrands is a music service launching next month that aims to bring together aggregated recommendations, voting and photos synchronized on location by mobile phone. Created by the Corvallis, Oregon and Barcellona, Spain based company MyStrands, PartyStrands is targeting bars and clubs. The site will go live on September 14th.
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There's nothing to celebrate this Labor Day.
Even though the economy generally is strong, as the White House proclaims, new data illustrates why President Bush's polls are low: Wages haven't been rising and workers are losing health coverage.
Surging productivity and corporate profits aren't making it to the working man like they have in the past.
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MySpace Not So Social Anymore
MySpace is no longer a social site, corporate spam-peddlers have taken over. Fake celebrity profiles, corporations posing as 13 yr-old girls to sell products, and a growing flood of ads is too much even for undemanding, noobish MySpace users. If something isn't done, it's only a matter of time before MySpace goes the way of AOL.
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Pioneer planning BDR-103 HD DVD/Blu-ray combo drive
"Pioneer announced plans at Berlin's IFA to manufacture the BDR-103 combo drive (followup to its BDR-101 and upcoming, CD-writing BDR-102 Blu-ray-only burners)."
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How Geniuses Work
According to conventional wisdom, geniuses are different from everyone else. They can think faster and better than other people. In addition, many people think that all that extra brainpower leads to eccentric or quirky behavior. And although geniuses are fairly easy to spot, defining exactly what makes one person a genius is a little trickier.
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New secure browser Browzar is fake and full of adware
Social news rave about Browzar - they claim it a new secure browser leaving no footprints. After looking at it closer, I found out that it's not a browser at all, and moreover, this software thrusts search via it's own PPC-SE full of ads on user.
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Friday, September 01, 2006
Buchanan: The US Used To Be "89 or 90 Percent White. I Like That Country"
Last night on Fox, Buchanan told Alan Colmes: "What I would like is -- I'd like the country I grew up in. It was a good country. I lived in Washington, D.C., 400,000 black folks, 400,000 white folks, in a country 89 or 90 percent white. I like that country." (Video)
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