Posted on February 29th, 2008 by pete
Massive attention has now been given – and rightly so – to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British motives too. The conventional explanation is that after the Twin Towers were hit, retaliation [...]
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Posted on February 29th, 2008 by pete
I ripped into Fox “News” while on a Fox “News” morning show last week. I thought I’d answer a bunch of questions people had about the incident. read more | digg story
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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by pete
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress that the nation is in for a period of sluggish business growth and sent a fresh signal Wednesday that interest rates will again be lowered to steady the teetering economy.
Bernanke couldn’t even disagree with Paul today. A few weeks ago Paul talked about how “tinkering” with the system [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by pete
A side-by-side look at all the major candidates’ positions on most of the major issues. Very helpful and complete with sources. The spending part is what is most shocking.read more | digg story
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Peter
Fascinating interview with renowned author Naomi Wolf, perhaps best known for her early 1990s feminist classic “The Beauty Myth”, considered by many to be one of the most important works of the 20th century.
Wolf discusses her new book “The End of America”, already on the New York Times bestseller list. The book identifies ten classic [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by pete
A group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.
SAN FRANCISCO — A group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.
The technique, which could undermine security [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by pete
Once a marketing gimmick, free has emerged as a full-fledged economy. Offering free music proved successful for Radiohead & Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The fastest-growing parts of the gaming industry are ad-supported casual games online and free-to-try massively multiplayer online games. Virtually everything Google does is free to consumers..read more | digg story
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by pete
It is loading slow because YouTube is down. You may experiance slow load times if you are pulling up a page which has an embedded YouTube video.
YouTube has disappeared from the Internet, apparently the victim of hackers who managed to gain control of its root DNS record. My wife and I were just moments ago [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by pete
According to yelvington.com, someone has highjacked the DNS for YouTube. read more | digg story
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by pete
Currently it’s 7:35 PM (GMT) and it seems that youtube.com is down for more than 30 minutes. No, its not because of my internet connection. It’s a problem at youtube 100%(see pictures below)
It seems that large sites can also have major problems, even if we would think that this is impossible. Who would have taught [...]
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