Using tough language, President Bush prodded Congress to pass his preferred version of surveillance legislation.
February 2008
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Fri 29 Feb 2008
Fri 29 Feb 2008
Cablevision and the ticketing powerhouse Ticketmaster are negotiating to acquire significant stakes in the nation’s No. 2 concert promoter, AEG Live.
Fri 29 Feb 2008
Denial93 writes “Geek favorite author Neil Gaiman has just made his multi-award-winning bestselling novel ‘American Gods’ available online for free. It’s a trial by the publisher, and runs for one month. Gaiman writes in his blog: ‘If it works, and people read it, then a) we may be able to put up another book and b) sooner or later they’ll simply let us give away the book in electronic form….’ It’s an excellent book and much deserving of the many prestigious awards it has been getting.”
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Fri 29 Feb 2008
SUVs_SUCK writes “It’s official — Volkswagen is unveiling a hybrid to challenge the mighty Toyota Prius. And not just any hybrid, but a diesel-electric hybrid it says will deliver 69.9 mpg. Auto Express says the Golf hybrid will be offered for sale in Europe by the end of next year. No word yet on when we might see it in the US.”
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Fri 29 Feb 2008
lelitsch writes “The Washington Post reports that the initial pilot of the Virtual Border Fence planned by the DHS and subcontracted to Boeing has been a miserable failure. A lot of the points in the report have the hallmark of death-march software development projects. Some choice quotes include ‘did not work as planned or meet the needs of the U.S. Border Patrol,’ ‘DHS officials do not yet know the type of terrain where the fencing is to be constructed,’ and ‘the design will not be used as the basis for future… development.’ The article notes that Boeing was forced to deliver ’something’ early as President Bush pushed for immigration reform in Congress in 2006. That reform effort died last year in the Senate.”
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Fri 29 Feb 2008
The software maker will cut between 20 and 48 percent off the price of some versions of its operating system, but not without some internal turmoil.
Fri 29 Feb 2008
Create Your Own Cross-Platform Backup Server [Feature]
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Backing up your data on a regular basis is important, and turning a spare computer into a backup server is often the best way to make sure it gets done. But most methods require either a good deal of…
Fri 29 Feb 2008
Use Unix Commands in Windows’ Built-In Command Prompt [Command Line]
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Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you’re already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it’s an…
Fri 29 Feb 2008
Avoid Impulse Buys to Halt "Shopping Momentum" [Shopping]
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You’ve probably proved this theory to yourself and groaned about it, but researchers the Stanford Graduate School of Business can prove it—buying one item reduces the amount of deliberatoin…
Fri 29 Feb 2008
Clean Out Old Startup Entries with MSConfig Cleanup [Featured Windows Download]
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Windows only: MSConfig Cleanup does one thing that you might only need once, but it does it well. When you run “msconfig,” also known as Windows’ System Configuration tool, or a number of other…