• IPHOTO still broken.
• Pages, Keynote, and Numbers still down; looking for the <synonym for procreation> disks.
• Migrated off APPLEMAIL onto THUNDERBIRD.
• Migrated off FIREFOX onto CHROME.
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MACBOOKAIR: Still trying to come back to where I was
Thursday, December 16, 2010
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NEWJERSEY: Red light cameras
Thursday, December 16, 2010http://nbs.gmnews.com/news/2010-12-16/Front_Page/SB_once_again_considering_redlight_cameras.html
S.B. once again considering red-light cameras
Route 1 intersections would be most likely locations
BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer
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Some streets in South Brunswick may soon be much safer. At the Dec. 7 Township Council meeting, council members discussed the implementation of a Red Light Running Automated Enforcement pilot program and are taking the necessary actions to move forward with the plan.
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No fund raising here?
And, guaranteed to increase accidents. (Has elsewhere as folks stomp on the breaks!)
And, why not make the length of a “yellow” into standard time duration? (Answer, more tickets!)
And, why not make roads “intelligent”? (Sitting a light with no cross traffic encourages blowing; more tickets!)
And, why not focus on accident reduction? (No incentive; less tickets!)
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RANT: Why do we permit “lame ducks”?
Thursday, December 16, 2010DC feeding frenzy
Lame-duck Congress gorges
By DANIEL J. MITCHELL
Last Updated: 4:18 AM, December 16, 2010
Posted: 10:35 PM, December 15, 2010
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The biggest extender is the ethanol credit, a boondoggle that distorts agriculture markets and causes considerable economic and environmental damage, but is popular with politicians because big agribusinesses recycle some of their undeserved profits back to Washington in the form of contributions.
The dozens of other extenders include special loopholes for solar and wind power, education spending, bonds for Louisiana and NASCAR racing.
There are strong policy arguments against these kinds of special tax breaks, especially since we could use the revenue to finance lower tax rates — but most people are even more upset by the dead-of-night process used to put these goodies into the tax bill.
The behavior on Capitol Hill reminds me of the movie classic, “Animal House”: After their fraternity has been placed on “double-secret probation,” John Belushi and the rest of guys at the Delta House decide to go out in a blaze of glory with a toga party.
Likewise, the politicians on Capitol Hill just got placed on the equivalent of probation by a Tea Party uprising. Yet rather than mend their crooked ways, they’re throwing a massive party with our money.
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Pitchfork and torches time!
Why do we permit “lame ducks”?
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PLATFORM: The netbook ASUS is bricked inet-wise!
Thursday, December 16, 2010Last night, some automatic security fixes applied themselves.
Suddenly WINDOZE7STARTER is forcing a “select a location for the ‘3TYNE7328215850 2’ network.
And, no internet connectivity.
Everything was work fine before.
WTF!
Notice the “space 2” on the end of the wireless lan name.
There’s no way to delete that “space 2” or to change it.
WINDOZE7STARTER says that it can’t create a ‘home network group’, but only join one.
This is one of the reasons I HATE WINDOZE.
Numerous system rollbacks to dates in the past can NOT fix this.
Argh!
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Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : ASUS
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 48-5B-39-81-5E-B9
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 1C-4B-D6-FE-7D-60
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::ed9d:a8ea:f652:9aad%11(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.102(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:34:23 AM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:53:12 AM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 236735446
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-14-89-6E-E8-1C-4B-D6-FE-7D-60
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Tunnel adapter isatap.{1880D8E4-AD10-4D35-B33E-0DD04215ACB2}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter isatap.{FF68CFF4-C30B-4730-BA8E-D44D45CA4170}:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
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SECURITY: LASTPASS (Recommended with a big caveat)
Thursday, December 16, 2010LastPass is a password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure
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Recommended, with a caveat.
I would never ever trust anyone with passwords to “financial” or “key email accounts”.
So, then by definition, passwords for “financial” services and their dedicated email accounts are NEVER shared with anyone, any service, or put on any machine. Written down in a secret spot. Not carried in a wallet or anything you’d expect.
(Handwritten and rolled up in a pen.)
Since there are very very few of these, they are easy to remember.
Yeah, under my tin foil hat, I’m paranoid!
And, you must use unique passwords for everything. It’s a pain, but necessary!
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