Review: PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X (6)
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Last week I boasted about the release of PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X and how it is definitely something to consider if data privacy is of utmost importance to you. By encrypting my hard drive, I am able to keep all of my data safe from physical disk access and other such tampering. Since publishing that post I have installed and been using PGP WDE on my MacBook Air for about a ...
High Performance Django (11)
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Below you will find resources from my presentation on High Performance Django. Slides Profiling Middleware Template Engine Benchmarks: Real-world Example, Benchmark Testcase
Do economists think TV is good for you? (3)
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In a nutshell, yes:The variation Mr. Gentzkow and Mr. Shapiro exploited was the timing of the introduction of TV into different cities. Television began taking off in the U.S. in 1946, after a wartime ban on TV production was lifted. But the Federal Communications Commission stopped granting new commercial television licenses from September 1948 to April 1952 while it made changes in allocating broadcast spectrum. There was a long lag between when some cities got ...
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Jon said:
What kind of television programming exited in 1946 vs today?
The Mysterious "Arcs" of Saturn's Moons [Space Porn] (2)
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Saturn's moons Anthe and Methone are getting in on the ring action that made the planet they orbit so famous. As you know, Saturn sports a whole series of glamorous rings, so huge and reflective that astronomers have been seeing them for centuries. Now it turns out that Saturn's moons Anthe and Methone have accumulated arcs of dust that stretch out around them like wings (pictured). The Cassini site reports today that this is caused ...
IPod Nano: An Actual Picture of the New iPod Nano (11)
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Looks like we've got a legit, actual spy shot of the new iPod nano in its packaging (apparently originally posted by MacNN in an obscured form, it looks like it first got clear in this AppleInsider thread). Thankfully, while it confirms everything we've been hearing about it, it's much, much prettier and Apple-y than what Kevin Rose provided us with, which looked like it was crapped out of a plastic robot Ewok or something before ...
Ghostbusters III (2)
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What are they hiding? (4)
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Okay, we know that Sarah Palin can read speeches written by Karl Rove's speech writers. But if she's really ready to be Commander in Chief, why won't her handlers let her answer questions? Is she a made-to-order candidate, kind of a Stepford Vice-President? What are the Republicans hiding? Maybe they're still debugging her program? Can she think for herself? Does she have her own new maverick-like ideas? Why did she lie about selling the plane ...
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"she loves moose but she also loves pork!"
Illinois Measles On The Rise (1)
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Illinois had more cases of measles than any other state this year, and according to the CDC, most of the people infected were unvaccinated children who are homeschooled. According to Cook County Public Health Department's Catherine Counard, not vaccinating a child affects more than just one person. "[Parents are] making a choice for the entire community. Because they're putting others at risk. And if their children become infected and expose a newborn infant who then ...
McCain Steals Music (5)
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POLITICS BUZZ – Nancy and Ann Wilson, John Cougar/Cougar-Mellencamp/Mellencamp, Van Halen and Jackson Brown ask McCain to stop using their music.Seems the Republicans can’t even steal their way out of their white stodginess. I say all for the better. If I see one more Democrat dancing to Fleetwood Mac I’m gonna slit my wrists with a cracked Rumors LP. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: Heart’s Nancy Wilson Responds: ...
Sexism Is Still Creeping Up On Hillary Clinton (And Us) [Words That Matter] (1)
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The New York Time has an article today about how the Obama camp is going to "dispatch" Hillary Clinton and other female surrogates to counter the McCain-Palin efforts to reach out to women. It's your sort of run-of-the-mill story about campaign tactics until someone far more awake than me — specifically, Melissa McEwan of Shakesville — points out the subtle sexism of how the Times describes the Obama-Hillary relationship. The Times says: Senator Barack Obama ...
Weekend of Web Apps and Tech Talks Awaits at DjangoCon (1)
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The creators of Django are set to kick off the first-ever conference dedicated entirely to their web-application framework. The inaugural DjangoCon gathering will take place Saturday, Sept. 6 and Sunday, Sept. 7 at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Often compared to Ruby on Rails, Django is a web framework written in the Python programming language. It was designed with one purpose in mind: to make building complex websites much easier. Django began life at ...
eBay couldn't sell Sarah Palin's jet - She took a loss! (12)
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During her speech at the Republican National Convention, VP nominee and Alaska governor Sarah Palin said that when she took office she first started cutting state spending by selling her predecessor's jet. Then Palin nailed a crowd-pleaser saying: "I put it on eBay." And it's true, she did. But eBay, then helmed by Palin's fellow RNC speaker Meg Whitman, couldn't handle the business. Palin's people listed the jet three times on the site, but no ...
Cappuccino Web Framework (2)
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Cappuccino Web Framework. Now open source (LGPL)—the Objective-C-in-JavaScript web application toolkit from 280 North, who are speaking at this year’s FOWA in October. Beautiful logo.