For those of you who don’t know Murray Sabrin, he’s running for Senate in New Jersey. He has been endorsed by Ron Paul and is a strict Constitutionalist. I really don’t like NetSol now… First this now this?!? Below is an Official Press Release from the Sabrin Campaign…
Democratic Private Equity Firm Halts Ron Paul Revolution!
Jersey [...]

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AT&T, Your world delivered. To the NSA.
Snipped from a BLF missive:
The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these [...]

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Yes, I said the Gopher Internet. No, I don’t mean little rodent things.You see, way back before these new-fangled graphical web browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer were invented, there were two Webs. There was the world wide web, and then there was the Gopher web.
The World Wide Web has, obviously, gotten pretty popular. You’re [...]

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Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling.
The software giant will appeal against the fine which follows a long-running dispute between it and EU regulators.
Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith, insisted the company had met the commission’s demands, and said it would appeal the [...]

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Tired of getting phone calls from the same 800-type phone number, but have no idea who’s calling? 800Notes.com, a free user-submitted reverse phone directory, lets you see who might be ringing, whether it’s a sales firm, debt collection agency, or other cloaked caller. Whether or not you find a match depends on if anybody else [...]

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Are you happy with the results people get back when they Google your name? If not, there are easy ways to monitor and guide what information is published about you online. Two years ago Lifehacker.com covered how to have a say in what Google says about you, and more recently, and how to track down [...]

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Search engine exeLibrary demystifies the EXEs running in your Task Manager to help you get to the bottom of whether or not that cryptic process actually needs to be running (and whether or not it’s malware). Just search any process when you’re unclear of its purpose in exeLibrary, and it’ll give you a detailed description [...]

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NEW YORK — More than $1 million of counterfeit Gucci, Prada, Fendi, Rolex and Coach goods have been seized in an early morning Chinatown raid by the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement.
The raid Tuesday came after a two-month investigation by city officials in the special unit, which was created in 2006 to crack down on [...]

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The Digital Inspiration blog points out a Gmail trick that’s been just under the surface all along. Everyone who has an “name@gmail.com” address can also receive mail sent to “name@googlemail.com.” What’s the big deal? Well, knowing this gives you a stronger hand when you fight against spam, bacn, and all that other not-so-important but distracting [...]

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Apache server software provides distributed (i.e., directory-level) configuration via Hypertext Access files. These .htaccess files enable the localized fine-tuning of Apache’s universal system-configuration directives, which are defined in Apache’s main configuration file. The localized .htaccess directives must operate from within a file named .htaccess. The user must have appropriate file permissions to access and/or edit [...]

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You have probably seen signs like these from mom and pop stores who thinks they’re NOT obliged to follow the rules like everyone else. This is a very common practice, even for a franchise of a major corporate chain in college towns where college students are not aware of the policy.
“$x.xx minimum purchase with credit [...]

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Bills pending in the Michigan and Washington state legislatures would mandate that personal information stored in business computers be “encrypted.” Legislatures are unwise to engage in such micro-management.
Pending Michigan Senate Bill (SB) 1022 would forbid a business from storing personally identifiable information in a database unless the information is encrypted. Similarly, in Washington State, pending [...]

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A team from Princeton University has developed ways to break disk encryption, including Bitlocker, Truecrypt, Apple encryption, and Linux encryption, if the computer is in sleep mode or sitting at a password prompt, or even if it’s just been turned off.

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Morning Edition, February 21, 2008 · Stanford University says it will no longer charge tuition to undergraduates whose parents earn less than $100,000 a year. For students whose parents make less than $60,000, the university will also waive room and board costs.
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) – Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that’s likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients [...]

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