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POLITICAL FIXES FOR POLITICAL CAUSES OF RECESSION
There is still time to avoid a recession - a recession being technically defined as two quarters of negative economic growth. What needs to be done, and can be done in the next 60 days, follows. First, it is important to realize the present ...
HYPOCRISY IS WINNING
To its enemies, the most endearing quality of the Bush administration must be the frequency with which the Bushies act as if they've done something wrong, even when they haven't. President Bush caused himself no end of grief when he apologized fo ...
COAL AND KYOTO
There were a lot of responses to and questions about Arabia in America. After discussing them, we'll discuss how "global warming" is just a scam to de-industrialize America and has nothing to do with cutting world-wide CO2 greenhouse g ...
PRESIDENT BUSH AND CAPTAIN PATRIQUIN
... they are largely responsible for fomenting, the ISG recommended, essentially, that we do more of what hasn't worked very ...
JAMES BAKER AND PARIS HILTON
President Kennedy once hosted a dinner for Nobel Prize winners. At the dinner he reportedly said: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possibl ...
WHY GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GETS BIGGER, NEVER SMALLER
Assume you are a mid-level bureaucrat in a government regulatory agency, and you know your pay and title depend on how many regulations you are responsible for administering, and the number of people who work for you. Do you think you would push for more ...
CHANGING WINDOWS FROM A TORTOISE TO A HARE
Windows can be as slow as a tortoise. You try all the tricks in the book, but your computer still crawls along. During some computing sessions, things sort of limp along, but in others, you can barely get the mouse to move. Defragmenting the hard dri ...
FORGET YOUR RIDE—PIMP YOUR WEB SERVICE
When it comes to the Web, dedicated search engines that only, well, search are out. These days, the focus is one-stop shopping-with a Web service. The recipe is simple: Start by combining all kinds of search capability-general Web, desktop, image, an ...
WHY IS THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE SO INCOMPETENT AT EXPLAINING THE TRUTH?
In Sunday's Washington Post Dafna Linzer and Barton Gellman provide their gullible readers with a reprise of one of the great myths of the runup to the Iraq war: that President Bush used blatantly false information to justify the war. The story revolv ...
CREATE AN INDESTRUCTIBLE SHARED PC
Need to put a PC in a public place? A free Microsoft tool makes it easy to lock down. Schools, libraries, and other organizations often want to make computers available in public places. These can become tempting targets for hackers. Even well-intent ...
DEMOCRAT LYING LIARS
The president went on television to announce: “Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capac ...
WHAT ARE ADWARE AND SPYWARE, REALLY?
Symantec Corporation said recently that it found itself forced to start dealing with spyware and adware simply because users of Symantec antivirus programs really couldn't tell the difference between a system infected with malware (virus, Trojan, worm, and ...
EUROPE NEEDS AMERICA’S FOUNDING FATHERS
As demonstrated by the French and Dutch "no" votes, Europeans are increasingly frustrated living under a bureaucratic (as contrasted with a democratic) state where national sovereignty (and democratic control) continues ebbing. What should be done? Eur ...
BACKUP
... utility. When I discussed backing up the System State, I recommended first putting a CD into your drive, then choosing it as the target ...
BACKUP AND SECURITY
... regularly backup your system state, as I have previously recommended, especially before cleaning your registry. Click Start in the ...
CLEANING UP THE REGISTRY
... only work intermittently or not at all. In the past I recommended Norton System Works. Its one step cleanup is good at setting some ...
LAPTOPS, CONTINUED
The main reason I’m researching laptops right now may seem trivial. My favorite caf� in Jerusalem, Aroma, now has WiFi. One important issue is what to do if your system develops a problem. On a desktop, if your system fails, you would likely ...
BROWSER HELPER OBJECTS: Conclusion
... recommended tool for preventing BHOs from infecting your computer is WinPatrol. ...
HANOI JOHN AND SLICK WILLIE
The contempt I have for Bill Clinton doesn’t come remotely close to the revulsion I have for John Kerry. While I despise Bill Clinton on many grounds, I don’t question his patriotism. I would question John Kerry’s - if he had any patrio ...
CAPITALISM IN IRAQ
... truck stop to eat a late lunch; our Iraqi passengers recommended it. The single room was large, clean and filled with 100-150 young ...
A NEW SPY SWEEPER, NEW INTRUDER TRICKS, AND MORE
... quite an upgrade from version 2.6, the version I recommended. Also, I’d like to discuss a different threat. There’s ...
WEB SURFING ANONYMIZERS
In the last two weeks I received several emails regarding web surfing anonymizers. These critters are portals through which you surf. They are reputed to prevent the sites you visit from identifying your personal computer. In the words of one of the mo ...
WHY CAN’T SHE TAKE IT LIKE A MAN?
We know conclusively that the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal is as phony as a Bill Clinton sex denial because there are no calls for the resignation of the one individual most responsible for the abuses. That would be the officer in charge of Abu Ghraib and all ...
How to counteract intruders that dial porn sites
The week before last I discussed a class of intruders known interchangeably as Adware, Spyware and Malware. At the end of the column I introduced a particularly insidious subset of these intruders known as ‘dialers’. This week we’ll learn ...
Comprehensive Reading List
... Tom Howard asks:"Can you post a comprehensive, recommended reading list from Dr. Wheeler? Particularly on logic and ...