Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Administration
Check out some of the background stories that have been leading up to this:
Goldman Sachs Creates Private Stock Exchange for Unregistered Securities, Clients with $100 Million Minimum
NASDAQ to Open Unregulated Private Stock Exchange for Investors with a Minimum of $100 Million in Assets
Big Traders Dive Into Dark Pools
In other words, if you thought equities were [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Administration
Nipple ring search procedures faulty, TSA admits
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — The Transportation Security Administration said Friday its officers at a Texas airport appear to have properly followed procedures when they allegedly forced a woman to remove her nipple rings — one with pliers — but acknowledged the procedures should be changed.Mandi Hamlin, at center [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Administration
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Administration
Barred by law from lobbying, the Postal Service is nonetheless trying to make its case before a growing number of state legislatures that are weighing bills to create Do Not Mail registries, which are similar to the popular National Do Not Call Registry. Ugh.
Postal Service Argues Against Registries to State Lawmakers
Chris Pearson, a state legislator [...]
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Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Administration
They just can’t get into the 21st century, can they? ugh.
Metallica will make a special appearance at Rasputin Records in Mountain View, California, to mark the official celebration of all independent record stores. With the collapse of Tower Records and the many other chains, this is an attempt by the metal gods to recognize and [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Administration
We’re kinda late on reporting this but, this for those of us who are artistically challenged need all the help we can get when it comes to design software. A vector tracing tool called Vector Magic (the result of Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory research project by James Diebel and Jacob Norda) was a valuable [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Administration
When I’m programming and i need to view variable values in a program, I usually use a debugger - looks like I’ve missed out on the new-age-fangled approach where you code it so the values you are interested in get emailed to your gmail account. ugh…
What happened with G-Archiver?
It has come to our attention that [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2008 by Administration
The BBC appears to have inadvertently removed the controversial DRM from its iPlayer video-on-demand service. Now, all BBC programs are broadcast across the country in digital form without DRM, literally diffused at the speed of light in all directions without any restrictions, but the Beeb somehow believes that there’s a new risk of piracy created [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Administration
That’s Russian for “Attention! You be vigilant.”
I leeched these skimmer photos off a Russian kiddie-hax site. Skimmers are old news in Europe, but I read stories about them every once-in-awhile here in North America. Be careful. Study the photos below and be on the lookout for these devices whenever you use the ATM. They are [...]
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Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Administration
WASHINGTON - The FBI acknowledged Wednesday it improperly accessed Americans’ telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies.
The breach occurred before the FBI enacted broad new reforms in March 2007 to prevent future lapses, FBI Director Robert Mueller [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2008 by Administration
Another afternoon spent coming up with CSS hacks for .png transparency and other nonsense for IE6. On Feb 12, Windows Update supposedly began forcing IE7 updates on people and that’s super duper great. Now when someone calls Microsoft about IE6, they can properly get chewed out and hung up on.
But what about the rest of [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Administration
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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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Administration
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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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Administration
This is old news but still deserves a mention. In case you haven’t been a student in awhile TurnItIn is a service for educational institutions. They make it compulsive for students to allow their paper to be submitted to Turnitin or receive a failing grade of 0.
The service, a profit entity, operates by archiving student [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Administration
Better get rid of those HD-DVDs soon.
HD DVD Format on Death Watch
Author: THOMAS K. ARNOLD and ERIK GRUENWEDEL
Posted: February 14, 2008
The format war has turned into a format death watch.
Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash of [...]
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