Think About Defense
On my way out of Fenway Park the other night, I found a credit card on the sidewalk -- an American Express platinum card to be specific. When I got to a well-lit place, I called one of the numbers on the back of the card and began my odyssey. It turns out, however, that there really is no easy set of procedures for reporting a found card. Lost? Yes. Found? Not so much, as Jon Stewart might say.
Disclosure Statement In Metabolife Bankruptcy Approved
SAN DIEGO - U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Hargrove on May 16 held a hearing at which he approved a disclosure statement for a $56 million global settlement of 256 Metabolife personal injury and wrongful death claims (In Re: MII Liquidation, Inc., et al., No. 05-06040-H11, S.D. Calif. Bkcy.; See April 2007, Page 10). Full story on lexis.com
How Being a Spam Cop Would Melt Your Mind
A run through of how I imagine it would be to work as an anti-spam search engineer. (Read on Source)
OnlineBannerAds.net Opens Next Generation of Website Marketing Posted By : Chris Walker
OnlineBannerAds, a Los Angeles based website marketing company, provides a full suite of online website marketing solutions directed to the internet community.
Gobuntu Has Already Failed
dive into mark: "I got all excited when Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu 'Gutsy Gibbon' would be available in a super-strict, 100% open source flavor (now called 'Gobuntu')..."
Apartotels Enthroned with Fraser Suites by Frasers Hospitality
Apartotels has added three new properties by Frasers Suites in its profile of luxury apartments in two popular European destinations - Paris and Glasgow.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s)
The Hardball Times:Meet Mike Aviles
Never heard of the guy until this year? That?s okay. You?re not alone. (Read on Source)
Government Recommends Slower Ship Speeds Near Whales
The federal government is recommending a speed limit for commercial ships along the Atlantic coast, where collisions with the endangered right whale threaten its existence.
Raiders set to Jettison DeAngelo Hall - Bleacher Report
 Bleacher Report | Raiders set to Jettison DeAngelo Hall Bleacher Report - The Oakland Raiders came to the realization that the DeAngelo Hall experiment has not worked. This decision proves that the team made a mistake in signing him in the offseason and basically squandering a second round draft pick in the process... by ... Rams interested in DeAngelo Hall? Raiders reportedly weigh releasing DeAngelo Hall, Javon Walker |
Report: Microsoft Takes Aim at Verizon Wireless Search
Microsoft has reportedly pitched its search engine to Verizon Wireless.
Sama Baby Luxury Organics Launches
Photo: Sama Baby Organics Sama Baby Luxury Organics as a company company is very kind to the planet. It's no secret that buying organic cotton can have a real impact on the planet considering that conventional cotton is one of the most chemically-dependent crops, sucking up 10 percent of all agricultural chemicals and 25 percent of insecticides ... (Read on Source)
OutWit Images: The Newest Release From OutWit Technologies
... add-on compatible with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. OutWit Images has picked up where other ... engine composed of an automation library, the kernel, around which an unlimited number of customized ...
CEA lowers expectations for electronics revenue
Fourth-quarter revenue will essentially be the same as the previous year, says industry group. It previously predicted revenue would grow 3.7 percent.
WINSLET BOUND TO WIN
'THE DEAD are still dead, aren't they?" That's Kate Winslet, in charac ter as Hanna Schmitz, in Stephen Daldry's beautiful new film, "The Reader." Hanna is speaking of the Holocaust, an event with which she is terribly entwined. It is uttered...
Windows 7 fine print
... AISO founders envisioned a Web hosting company that was environmentally friendly. While the company employed energy-efficient innovations like solar panels, ...
Merck CEO: Eyeing 'Entire Spectrum' Of Possible Acquisitions
"Concerning a large-scale transaction, as I said before, I wouldn't rule anything out," he told analysts on a conference call. "I don't think any CEO in this environment can categorically rule out any transaction." He added that he was looking at opportunities across the "entire spectrum." (Read on Source)
Monday eye-opener: What do we do about Manny? - USA Today
 National Post | Monday eye-opener: What do we do about Manny? USA Today McCourt has told Scott Boras, the agent for Manny Ramirez, that the team's $45 million offer is in the past. Now negotiations will "start from scratch. Dodgers scrap $45 million offer to Ramirez Giants keep watch over Manny pursuit |
Which Countries Have the Most Debt
The Economist has a great image on which countries have the most debt as a percentage of GDP...
Re: He's Very Lucky He's Not a Republican.
How many administration news stories is that applicable to a day? Quite a few lately. (Read on Source)
Microsoft: Scareware, PDF exploits rise
The company's latest Security Intelligence Report shows a rise in the use of rogue security software and attacks targeting PDF, Word, and other common file formats.
Google Says It Helps Newspaper Websites
Google says it does not misappropriate newspaper content and actually helps them by driving traffic to their Web sites.
Alexander
Macgillivray
"We drive traffic and provide advertising in support of all business models -- whether news sources choose to host their articles with us or on their own sites, and whether their business model is ad-supported or based on subscriptions," wrote Alexander Macgillivray, Google's associate general counsel for products and intellectual property, on the Google Public Policy Blog.
"In all cases, for news articles we've crawled and indexed but do not host, we show users just enough to make them want to read more -- the headline, a "snippet" of a line or two of text and a link back to the news publisher's website."
The blog post comes after The Associated Press announced yesterday it was working on system to protect its content from being misappropriated online.
Macgillivray said some readers, journalists and users wondered if the AP's latest announcement was directed at Google.
"The answer is that it doesn't appear to pertain to Google since we host those articles in partnership with the AP," Macgillivray wrote.
"We announced that partnership in 2007 as part of an experiment in hosting articles on our site. In hosting agreements such as this, we pay news agencies and display the entire text of articles."
Macgillivray went on to defend Google's actions concerning newspaper Web sites. "Once a reader is on the newspaper's site, we work hard to help them earn revenue. Our AdSense program pays out millions of dollars to newspapers that place ads on their sites, and our goal is that our interest-based advertising technology will help newspapers make more from each click we send them by serving better, more relevant ads to their readers to generate higher returns."
Google maintains that its practice follows U.S. copyright law and that newspapers that disagree with fair use can ask to have their content removed from its index.
A Better Fate for Sun
From the blogs: This deal seems like a better fit than a merger with IBM. But Oracle has its work cut out for it.
Gonzales Said to Have Intervened on Wiretap
Despite a longstanding policy to alert Congressional leaders quickly if a member could be the target of a security investigation, Alberto R. Gonzales resisted briefing lawmakers on Jane Harman?s wiretap. (Read on Source)
how to export sent messages from webmail
Isn't it irritating when you want to export your sent emails from a web mail client to your outlook to save all your outgoing emails locally on your computer? When you connect to your provider you wil...
WhoPaste 1.1 now compatible with Contacts, Entourage
Mac-Chi has released version 1.1 of its contact-grabbing utility, WhoPaste. The program allows the creation contact records in a variety of data stores by copying text to the Clipboard, and then activating a user-configurable hotkey. WhoPaste 1.0 was originally compatible only with Address Book; v1.1 expands support to include Google Contacts and Microsoft's Entourage....
Webware 100 winners announced!
We just announced the winners of the 2009 Webware 100. Nearly 630,000 votes were cast during the voting this year to pick the best Web 2.0 sites and services. As with the previous years' awards, there were some surprises among the expected winners. (Read on Source)
Teen Pleads Guilty In Blair Holt Shooting
A teenage boy has pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of a promising high school student named Blair Holt, aboard a city bus as Holt tried to shield a classmate. (Read on Source)
The fun of legacy hardware
Stubborn Tech Problem Solving: "I have an old embedded system that uses an SBC-MAX (pdf) board from Computer Dynamics. The unit was part of a vehicle monitoring system that used Windows 98 (one of many fundamental flaws in the design)."
Name: SyroBro