Are the wireless cards in Macs noted for their ability to pick up signals around corners or at greater distances than the average? I ask because this new MacBook Pro we have has not had a single occasion where it lost/dropped the wireless signal from the back room. The Asus netbook, on the other hand, …
That’s about the distance between the community center proposed in NYC and the site where the World Trade Center once stood. What else is two blocks away from the WTC site? Well . . . A Burger King. A McDonald’s. A strip club. A Vitamin Shoppe. Hallowed ground it’s not.
Gosh. I didn’t know that standing up for religious freedom meant this! Paging the Church of Satan: Our founding principles demand Barack Obama support your rights to human sacrifice. Carry on. Or this!: Paging Islamofascists: Our founding principles demand Barack Obama support Jihad. Maybe CNN should have paid attention when it was told of Mr. …
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Every time I run a virus scan I see a zillion “tracking files” and wonder how they got onto my machine. The WSJ explores. These things are used to build a profile of you, the user. Here’s an example: The file consists of a single code? 4c812db292272995e5416a323e79bd37?that secretly identifies her as a 26-year-old female in …
John Richardson expands on the Esquire article I linked to day before yesterday. Quoting former US Representative Mickey Edwards (R-OK) again: He [Gingrich] was the one who really more than anybody got Republicans to start thinking of themselves not in terms of their constitutional obligations, but thinking of themselves first as Republicans. The classic example …
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I’ve seen several people say that this profile of Newt Gingrich is devastating, that he’ll never be able to run for office again after this. I don’t believe it. The man has enormous staying power and an unquenchable ego. Add to that a complete lack of principles (hey, it’s not just me saying that: “I’ve …
Not surprisingly, the right-wingers and the theoretically-neutral networks have felt a need to report that Michelle Obama and her younger daughter are (gasp!) on vacation in Spain! Kevin Drum notes that Laura Bush took vacations too, but they were in American national parks, which automatically confers legitimacy or something. I’d add that Michelle Obama is …
No, not beach-going, not lawn-mowing, not even baseball game-attending. No, I speak of the now-annual breathless speculation about former Green Bay Packer, former New York Jet and most recently Minnesota Viking quarterback Brett Favre and his possible retirement. Forgive me, ESPN, but this foofaraw is about as entertaining as the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. No, …
NYT: Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content?s creators are willing to pay for the privilege. The charges could be paid by companies, like YouTube, owned by Google, for example, …
We suddenly possess a barely-used MacBook Pro, a gift from a Mainland visitor who insisted it was unneeded. That was a huge and highly-unexpected surprise, and we’re very grateful. Mom is a book person. She likes to refer to the printed page and the Post-it notes she uses to bookmark the pages she finds useful. …