Category: The World
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Lawmakers seek top-secret papers
World: Like any Presidential Administration is going to allow papers that could show how they do things or that they might have been negligent to see the light of day. Lawmakers seek top-secret papers — MSNBC Entertainment: Lots and lots to see this summer. *sigh* Spinning out the summer movies — MSNBC
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Navy Brass Latest Hacking Victim
World News: Even Middle East countries have problems with plane hijackings.Yahoo! News – Security Agents Foil Iranian Hijacking There was a thing Friday on CNN about Chinese soldiers attempting to stop people from entering an embassy. Pretty scary. Wonder what they know or did? Yahoo! News – Two North Koreans enter Canada’s embassy in China Internet:…
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Superhero Copy-Paste Skills
It has been a long day. I did help make graduation go off. My crazy slick cool copy-n-paste skills saved the day! Now to go home vege…. Some TV or a movie. Think the news media is a little hyper-aware of plane crashes now. Yahoo! News – Egyptian Plane Crashes in Tunisia and BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Airliner…
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IT Work Force Set to Grow
Science & Technology News: Yahoo! News – Archaeologists Unearth Base of Egypt Queen Pyramid Business There could be 1.1 million jobs created over the next year. Yahoo! News – Information Technology Work Force Set to Grow Really… these days notebooks are actually decent. You can do quite a bit of stuff of them. Yahoo! News – Notebooks…
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US joblessness hits eight-year high
U.S. News: This might explain why my collegiate friends can’t get real jobs. Too much competition? BBC News | BUSINESS | US joblessness hits eight-year high The recession may be over, but we have not recovered. A fine distinction, I know. With most of the major economies still down, it seems like it would be difficult…
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Hackers in Sheep’s Clothing
Tech News: I’ve said it often enough… students are hackers in sheep’s clothing. This true too… “the majority of academic networks are tempting targets for hackers because of their lack of security, abundance of bandwidth and overworked administrators.”University systems a haven for hackers – Tech News – CNET.com World News: Don’t approach a U.S. Navy…
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How-To Defeat Web Bots
Seems like Xanga is limping along at the moment. In an effort to further complicate my bloggings… news here. Real rants over there. Tech News: Found this by following an article on Slashdot. Thinking this would be good to implement. How to Defeat Bad Web Robots With Apache Only has experimental Apache 2.0 support. Maybe 4.2.1 will fix…
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Bike Trail
Work Saturday morning was not terrible. I hear we were complimented. Noticed I had a tendency to cradle my hands in front of me. Think that is a weird nervous habit. Went driving yesterday afternoon. Followed this “bike trail” for 75 miles. Figure it must go across the state along some of the most backwater…
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German school massacre
Get to work on a Saturday. Gotta love firewalls. They block what ever they are configured to intercept… such as TTF files attached to emails. Anyone getting 20 copies a day of the Klez worms? I base my popularity on how many viruses I get from people. Since some of the recent ones like Magistr,…