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one-laptop-per-child-soldier

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

I haven't seen many criticisms of the $100 laptop project. It's hard to criticize something that is being done for altruistic reasons. I have always thought that it was not what was needed. Clean water, mosquito netting, text books, schools, things like that seemed more important to me, but since I'm not doing anything (except giving platelets), who am I to talk?

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forget-air-marshalls-its-time-for-air-cavaliers

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Due to the dramatic increase in passengers carrying 4 foot swords on US commercial aircraft, it is time we dropped the Air Marshall program and instituted the Air Cavaliers. I might be biased , but I think it would be much more dramatic. The Air Cavaliers would be under cover of course, but when danger appeared they would remove their peasant costume in a flourish to reveal their grandiose Cavalier regalia.

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flaw-in-mail-list-compromises-password-file

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

There are a number of things that make passwords increasingly unusable. One of the biggest problems with passwords is that you're supposed to use different ones for different systems. It's a no-no to use the same password in multiple places because if one gets compromised, then the other systems are compromised.

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computers-to-hand-out-death-penalties

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Yet another sign that China will surpass the US in technological expertise: They will soon be using computers to hand out death penalties.

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sec-closes-barn-door-horses-unavailable-for

Posted by: admin 16 years, 3 months ago

Security Focus has a breif on the SEC's action to suspend trading in pump & dump stocks. The full SEC press release is here. From the press release:

On Friday, Dec. 15, 2006, shares in Apparel Manufacturing Associates, Inc. (APPM) closed at $.06, with a trading volume of 3,500 shares. After a weekend spam campaign distributed emails proclaiming, "Huge news expected out on APPM, get in before the wire, We're taking it all the way to $1.00," trading volume on Monday, Dec. 18, 2006, hit 484,568 shares with the price spiking to over 19 cents a share. Two days later the price climbed to $.45. By Dec. 27, 2006, the price was back down to $.10 on trading volume of 65,350 shares.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but don't you think the pump and dumpers sold their stocks before the end of the year? I mean it's not like they were waiting to get the income into the next tax year.

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