Eliot Spitzer takes on Spyware
NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is at it again. (I really admire this guy.) This time he's suing a company called Intermix that runs websites that download spyware & adware onto your computer. While I was on vacation, I read a Vanity Fair biographical article about Spitzer. I looked to see if the article was available on the web to quote from it, but alas, it's not. It was in the January or February 2005 issue. If you can find it in the library, it's worth reading.
Geek.com Geek News - NY Attorney General sues Internet marketing company
Friday, April 29, 2005
Danica Patrick Just misses Pole at Montegi
23 year-old rookie race driver Danica Patrick just missed getting the pole position for the Indy Racing League race in Montegi Japan. Sam Hornish beat her by a nose. This is a good omen for Ms. Patrick who has to hold up the honor of the whole female gender in open-wheeled racing now that Sarah Fisher has made a "lateral" move to the Nascar minor leagues.
Good luck Danica. The racing world can be cruel to nontraditional drivers. One driver was nicknamed "Toonces" after the cat who could drive a car "but not very well." Still, Hiro Matsushita would have loved to have the nickname "Toonces". In the 1990's, he was known as the "moving chicane". a nickname that Emerson Fittipaldi gave him when Emmo had a hard time getting around Hiro in a race in Phoenix.
Hornish, Patrick on front row in Japan
23 year-old rookie race driver Danica Patrick just missed getting the pole position for the Indy Racing League race in Montegi Japan. Sam Hornish beat her by a nose. This is a good omen for Ms. Patrick who has to hold up the honor of the whole female gender in open-wheeled racing now that Sarah Fisher has made a "lateral" move to the Nascar minor leagues.
Good luck Danica. The racing world can be cruel to nontraditional drivers. One driver was nicknamed "Toonces" after the cat who could drive a car "but not very well." Still, Hiro Matsushita would have loved to have the nickname "Toonces". In the 1990's, he was known as the "moving chicane". a nickname that Emerson Fittipaldi gave him when Emmo had a hard time getting around Hiro in a race in Phoenix.
Hornish, Patrick on front row in Japan
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Social Security (privatization) Calculator
Enter your salary information & age to see how Pres. Bush's Social Security privatization plan would affect your expected benefits. From the values that I put in, I'd lose $2740 per year. Your mileage may vary. (FYI this calculator appears to be sponsored by US Senate Democrats. Is it accurate? Who knows?
Social Security Calculator
Enter your salary information & age to see how Pres. Bush's Social Security privatization plan would affect your expected benefits. From the values that I put in, I'd lose $2740 per year. Your mileage may vary. (FYI this calculator appears to be sponsored by US Senate Democrats. Is it accurate? Who knows?
Social Security Calculator
The Cost of the War in Iraq $166 Billion & counting
Below is a counter for the cost of the war in Iraq. There are options to figure how much is attributable to each state, and more importantly, the opportunity costs in various social welfare alternatives. For example, the same money could have paid for health insurance for 99 million school children. All of the world hunger project could have been funded for six years.
I wonder what $166 Billion could have done in terms of funding a project to develop new technologies for energy independence -- fuel cells, hydrogen generation, better solar cells, energy efficient appliances & lighting. We could have developed new industries. Next lifetime I guess.
Cost of War
Below is a counter for the cost of the war in Iraq. There are options to figure how much is attributable to each state, and more importantly, the opportunity costs in various social welfare alternatives. For example, the same money could have paid for health insurance for 99 million school children. All of the world hunger project could have been funded for six years.
I wonder what $166 Billion could have done in terms of funding a project to develop new technologies for energy independence -- fuel cells, hydrogen generation, better solar cells, energy efficient appliances & lighting. We could have developed new industries. Next lifetime I guess.
Cost of War
Ecoustics.com - Great Gathering Place for Home Electronics Reviews
If you are looking to buy a piece of home electronic equipmeent, checkout ecoutstics.com. This site gathers reviews from all over the web and has a fairly comprehensive message board discussion section.
eCoustics.com - Editorial Review Index
If you are looking to buy a piece of home electronic equipmeent, checkout ecoutstics.com. This site gathers reviews from all over the web and has a fairly comprehensive message board discussion section.
eCoustics.com - Editorial Review Index
Michael Jackson - Guilty OR Innocent? - The Mickey Dolenz Report
I've been reading press reports of the Michael Jackson trial. As a lawyer, I am sceptical if the prosecution will be able to get a proper conviction of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Sure, Michael is flakey beyond a reasonable doubt. Sure, Michael has a reputation as a child molester, but I just don't see evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Michael molested THIS child, and that's the proper question.
So much of what I think, what do ex-monkee Mickey Dolenz's listeners at WCBS think? Well, according to the website - 87% think MJ is guilty.
WCBSFM101.1 - The Greatest Hits of All Time
I've been reading press reports of the Michael Jackson trial. As a lawyer, I am sceptical if the prosecution will be able to get a proper conviction of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Sure, Michael is flakey beyond a reasonable doubt. Sure, Michael has a reputation as a child molester, but I just don't see evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Michael molested THIS child, and that's the proper question.
So much of what I think, what do ex-monkee Mickey Dolenz's listeners at WCBS think? Well, according to the website - 87% think MJ is guilty.
WCBSFM101.1 - The Greatest Hits of All Time
Bad Penny Stock Company of the Day:
Secured Data Inc. (SCRE)
I've received at least five spam e-mails in the last 2 days hyping this penny stock. I'd love to get my hands on the company that they're paying to send me this crap. For anybody who might possibly be thinking about investing in this "stock", check out the Yahoo link below. It looks to me like a typical pump & dump penny stock. Don't do it.
SCRE.OB: Summary for SECURED DATA INC - Yahoo! Finance
Secured Data Inc. (SCRE)
I've received at least five spam e-mails in the last 2 days hyping this penny stock. I'd love to get my hands on the company that they're paying to send me this crap. For anybody who might possibly be thinking about investing in this "stock", check out the Yahoo link below. It looks to me like a typical pump & dump penny stock. Don't do it.
SCRE.OB: Summary for SECURED DATA INC - Yahoo! Finance
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Carpe Carpum -Seize the Carp.
As much carp stuff as you'd ever want at www.carp.com. Perhaps carp screensaver or wallpaper is on your shopping list?
Carp fishing magazine with articles, carp forum, carp bait and fishing tackle shop
As much carp stuff as you'd ever want at www.carp.com. Perhaps carp screensaver or wallpaper is on your shopping list?
Carp fishing magazine with articles, carp forum, carp bait and fishing tackle shop
Apple has a Tiger in its tank
Apple Computer is set to release OS X Tiger, it's latest operating system on April 29. Yesterday it announced updated Powermac computers, and the rest of its computers are expected to be speedbumped for good performance with Tiger by April 29 or shortly thereafter. If you are planning on buying a mac, make sure you are getting the speedbumped version. The lower end systems are expected to double their shipped RAM to 512 MB. Most will have graphics processors upgraded to ATI 9600 and 64 MB. This amounts to about a doubling of graphics performance.
The Tiger operating system itself is the single biggest operating system upgrade for Apple since the original OS-X. Tiger upgrades the internal workings to 64 bit computing for most processes, makes the graphics processor take over most of the work for the "eye candy" of the system. There is a "Spotlight" search technology that lets you search everything in your computer seamlessly. Finally, there are "widgets" a lot of small little helpful programs that you didn't know you couldn't live without.
Some would argue that "Tiger" is the next generation operating system that Microsoft hopes to deliver with "Longhorn" in late 2006 or 2007.
Interestingly, separately, Microsoft announced that it was planning on shipping a 64 bit version of Windows very soon. This is not Longhorn, this is a version of the current Windows XP but with some 64 bit processing implemented. This system has been circulating experimentally for two years, but has been criticized as being not very useful due to a lack of drivers and support for external devices. People who have been using 64 bit AMD 64 microprocessors have been using regular Windows or 64 bit Linux.
Macworld: News: Mac OS X Tiger to ship April 29
Apple Computer is set to release OS X Tiger, it's latest operating system on April 29. Yesterday it announced updated Powermac computers, and the rest of its computers are expected to be speedbumped for good performance with Tiger by April 29 or shortly thereafter. If you are planning on buying a mac, make sure you are getting the speedbumped version. The lower end systems are expected to double their shipped RAM to 512 MB. Most will have graphics processors upgraded to ATI 9600 and 64 MB. This amounts to about a doubling of graphics performance.
The Tiger operating system itself is the single biggest operating system upgrade for Apple since the original OS-X. Tiger upgrades the internal workings to 64 bit computing for most processes, makes the graphics processor take over most of the work for the "eye candy" of the system. There is a "Spotlight" search technology that lets you search everything in your computer seamlessly. Finally, there are "widgets" a lot of small little helpful programs that you didn't know you couldn't live without.
Some would argue that "Tiger" is the next generation operating system that Microsoft hopes to deliver with "Longhorn" in late 2006 or 2007.
Interestingly, separately, Microsoft announced that it was planning on shipping a 64 bit version of Windows very soon. This is not Longhorn, this is a version of the current Windows XP but with some 64 bit processing implemented. This system has been circulating experimentally for two years, but has been criticized as being not very useful due to a lack of drivers and support for external devices. People who have been using 64 bit AMD 64 microprocessors have been using regular Windows or 64 bit Linux.
Macworld: News: Mac OS X Tiger to ship April 29
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