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Dead To Me Word 2007 Auto Save Recovery
You would think that there might be some compelling reason to upgrade from Office 2003 to 2007, or perhaps to consider paying for office instead of the wonderful Openoffice.org 3.0 that is totally …
Anti Abortion Activists Think About Implications Much
This is a fascinating video. Abortion protesters are asked what should be done to the women who would have illegal abortions. None of them had an answer and none of them had ever thought about it. It …
Disappointment In Bits Public Comments On Contactless Payments Privacy And Security
The FTC had solicited public comments on contactless payment systems: The Federal Trade Commission and the Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington Will Host a Town Hall …
Css Sprites Are Cool
I just learned about CSS sprites for reducing the amount of HTTP requests it takes to render a page. Very cool stuff. Basically, you create a single image that contains all of the small images to use …
Ev Certs Used Against Us
I happened to notice this in my Spam bucket. Funny to see the phishers adapting to the trend of increased use of EV certs and the fact that customers are rightly ignorant of what EV certs actually are …
The BEAST on Rush
I recently listened to Rush while driving and wanted to reach into the radio and shake him because his delivery is so annoying. He must love to hear himself talk so much he repeats everything ad …
Lou Dobbs Global Warming Denier
Hat tip to FAIR’s Counterspin for covering this last week. I hadn’t heard it discussed yet. What hubris!! To think that you somehow know more than the consensus of scientific opinion? …
Browser Security Policies Documented And Compared
I have often wondered about this kind of thing. Browsers implement all kinds of “policies” that are largely implemented as undocumented logic in code – probably in response to a …
Dangers Of Instant Runoff Voting
Several recent editions of RISKS discuss some evidence of the dangers of IRV (Instant Runoff Voting) systems. Which is a shame since I hoped that they would offer a better approach that could help …
Constitutional Challenge To Fisa Immunity Law Go Eff Go-
In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms | Threat Level from Wired.com “Is there any precedent for this type of enactment that is analogous in all of these respects: …