McNamee

So let me get this straight. This guy injects his clients with steroids and keeps the needles, gauze and vials he used, with their blood on it for 7-8 years?
What? Was this bribe material? Or can we say "set up."

Money Matters

I've been called all kinds of cheap because I had, until recently, 2 20 year old cars. I now have one 20 year old car and one 11 year old car. I live well below my means and insist on paying credit card balances at the end of the month. I religiously save my spare change and all singles accrued at the end of the week.

I take my money very seriously. Which probably explains my current singlehood. But that's another story all together.

In any event the NY Times has a shocking article on just how badly some people are managing their money. Shocking to me at least because I cannot imagine even having $200,000 in debt or having a personal savings rate of -7% or -14%.

For the 34 million households who took money out of their homes over the last four years by refinancing or borrowing against their equity — roughly one-third of the nation — the savings rate was running at a negative 13 percent in the middle of 2006, according to Moody’s Economy.com. That means they were borrowing heavily against their assets to finance their day-to-day lives.

By late last year, the savings rate for this group had improved, but just to negative 7 percent and mostly because tightened standards made loans harder to get.

“For them, that game is over,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com. “They have been spending well beyond their incomes, and now they are seeing the limits of credit.”

No 12" Mac Book. Ever.

Well if you watched the Macworld Keynote you know that there will be no 12" MacBook. Why? Because Steve Jobs said so. When he was leading into his intro of the "Air" he stated that other manufacturers compromise their sub-notebooks by giving them 11" and 12" screens. So Mr. Jobs thinks that the 12" form factor is a bad thing and would "compromise" the MacBook. Regardless to the fact that many people who have 12" Powerbooks have them because we WANT the "compromised" space and many of us have in fact gone from larger PowerBooks to the 12", Steve doesn't like it and what Steve doesn't like doesn't get made.

Steve also knows that all of us holdouts will eventually have to fold as batteries die, and new "gotta have" apps come out as Intel Only apps and of course we get tired of the 1.5 Ghz processor that the last iteration had.

Yes, the 12" Powerbok is dead and the prospects of a new 12" model has just been buried. Enjoy yours while it works.

Time Capsule

So is there some hidden "feature" in Time Machine to recognize a Time Capsule, are we to expect an OS update to enable this on other Macs, or will this work with any AFP network drive with a supposed update? Or maybe there's some key combination I need to use with Leopard (or a file to hack).

MacBook Air..

Gives the Kiss of Death to FireWire. The first Mac model I know of, since the clamshell iBooks and original iMac to not have a FireWire port. Though come to think of it I rarely use it on my 12 incher and then only for a webcam.

Proposed NJ Turnpike Tolls

On my other blog I complained about how much it cost me to drive to Miami (or was that Baltimore?). Anyway the crux of my complaint was the ridiculous numbers of tolls that one has to pay between NJ and Washington DC. For the privilege of traveling over a bridge in Delaware one pays a toll. I mean a toll to go all of maybe 5 miles. Then another and another and another. In the space of say 50 miles, one can pay at least 3 tolls. Why? Road, like speeding tickets are all about revenue. just as speeding tickets are about fattening county coffers so are toll roads. they go to pay for things unrelated to roads. I would prefer to pay a federal 'road tax" and a state "road tax" once and be done with all tolls from border to border. Tolls add to and cause traffic. When I made that trip last summer, whenever I came to a congested area I bet myself that there was a toll coming up. 90% of the time I was right. Cars emit more pollution when they are crawling and gas mileage suffers, unless you're in a hybrid or electric car So not only do tolls cause traffic problems, it also contributes to pollution. But what is worse is that one ought to be able to drive from one end of the country to the other without:

a) being surveilled (EasyPass)
b) being pick pocketed (tolled).

Now I understand how states may want to charge commercial entities for using the roads to make money. Fine. Federal Road tax and State road tax on businesses that make travel exemptions or who are in the business of deliveries. In fact I think if New Jersey, and the rest of the states, were to stop giving out Corporate welfare cheques (called tax breaks and tax incentives) there'd be all kinds of money in the state coffers.

Another Reason to not use Bluetooth headsets

"All that is necessary is knowing the device address, which can be easily sniffed, and the secret pin, which defaults to 0000. The headset audio is tapped while not in a call, so any room conversation the headset's mic can pick up can potentially be listened to remotely."


http://www.hackinthebox.org/url.php?url=25340