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13 Nov 09

Stop Paying for Windows Security; Microsoft's Security Tools Are Good Enough - Security - Lifehacker

  • The release of Microsoft Security Essentials has changed the landscape of antivirus software. We've finally got a completely free application that protects against viruses, spyware, and other malware—without killing system performance like some of the "suites" tend to do. In my personal experience, it barely slows down the machine and rarely affects my work—and during a deliberate attempt to download some viruses (for testing purposes), it immediately found and blocked them from doing anything.
  • You don't have to take my word for it, however. Not only did AV-Test.org find that it detects 98% of their enormous malware database, but AV-Comparatives (a widely known anti-malware testing group) found that MSE was one of only three products that did well at both finding and removing malware, including the leftovers. It was also the only free product to grab their "Advanced+" rating—the top honor for an anti-malware solution.
29 Mar 09

How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street - TIME

  • If you're having a little trouble coping with what seems to be the complete unraveling of the world's financial system, you needn't feel bad about yourself. It's horribly confusing, not to say terrifying; even people like us, with a combined 65 years of writing about business, have never seen anything like what's going on. Some of the smartest, savviest people we know — like the folks running the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board — find themselves reacting to problems rather than getting ahead of them. It's terra incognita, a place no one expected to visit.
27 Oct 08

Jane Devin: The Christian Right Killed the Republican Party

When Ronald Reagan began courting the religious right in his bid to win the Presidency, I doubt he knew he was spelling death to the lean tenets of Goldwater conservatism. Yet soon afterward, under the thumb of right-wing religion, the Republican party became a bloated fool, stuffed with hypocrisy, greed, and anti-intellectualism. In 2008, the price is being paid through lost elections and a loss of public trust.

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Op-Ed Columnist - The Widening Gyre - NYTimes.com

  • “Unlike the British government, which is mandating lending requirements in return for capital injections, our government seems afraid to do anything except plead.” And sure enough, the banks seem to be hoarding the cash.
  • But top officials have made a point of denying that Fannie and Freddie debt is backed by the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. government — and as a result, markets are still treating the agencies’ debt as a risky asset, driving mortgage rates up at a time when they should be going down.
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21 Oct 08

Truthdig - Reports - The Idiots Who Rule America

  • Our oligarchic class is incompetent at governing, managing the economy, coping with natural disasters, educating our young, handling foreign affairs, providing basic services like health care and safeguarding individual rights. That it is still in power, and will remain in power after this election, is a testament to our inability to separate illusion from reality.
15 Oct 08

Backers push bullet-train measure as a dramatic change in California transportation - Los Angeles Times

  • Subsequent phases -- paid off by what promoters predict will be at least $1 billion in annual ticket sales profits -- would reach San Diego, Sacramento and Oakland.
  • Backers said the rail line would be a boon for both the present and future. As many as 160,000 construction jobs would help fuel an anemic current-day economy, they say, and 400,000 more would be created once the system was running.
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12 Oct 08

White House Overhauling Rescue Plan - NYTimes.com

  • Two weeks after persuading Congress to let it spend $700 billion to buy distressed securities tied to mortgages, the Bush administration has put that idea aside in favor of a new approach that would have the government inject capital directly into the nation’s banks — in effect, partially nationalizing the industry.
  • Some experts also contend that Treasury’s decision last month to not use taxpayer money to save Lehman Brothers worsened the panic that quickly metastasized into an international crisis.

A Power That May Not Stay So Super - NYTimes.com

  • “The political system does not deal well with gradual, long-term problems,” Peter Orszag, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, said. “It deals with crises, often imperfectly, but it does deal with them. The current experience makes the case.”
11 Oct 08

What the Troopergate Report Really Says -- Printout -- TIME

  • The report also raises the suggestion that the final incident that led to Monegan's firing was perhaps the most (unintentionally) hilarious part of the whole saga. In the run-up to Alaska's 2008 Police Memorial Day event, Monegan visited Palin in Anchorage and brought along an official portrait of a state trooper in uniform, saluting in front of the police memorial in Anchorage, for Palin to sign and present at the event. The trooper? Mike Wooten.
09 Oct 08

Op-Ed Columnist - Palin’s Kind of Patriotism - NYTimes.com

  • And please also don’t tell me she is an “energy expert.” She is an energy expert exactly the same way the king of Saudi Arabia is an energy expert — by accident of residence. Palin happens to be governor of the Saudi Arabia of America — Alaska — and the only energy expertise she has is the same as the king of Saudi Arabia’s. It’s about how the windfall profits from the oil in their respective kingdoms should be divided between the oil companies and the people.
07 Oct 08

National Journal Magazine - What's The Worst That Could Happen To The Economy?

  • What if the government's response doesn't end the paralysis that is promp-ting banks and businesses to hoard their cash? Would that be so bad? Would the economic down-turn that President Bush warned about be a better



    alternative than an ultimately open-ended government commitment to keep injecting money into the financial system until the crisis eases?

06 Oct 08

National Journal Magazine - The Other Meltdown

  • The House's failure to pass the bill revealed a system so poisoned by partisan posturing and so fearful of backlash from the ideological vanguards of each party that it cannot foster consensus even at a moment of genuine national emergency.

National Journal Magazine - The Sound And Fury Behind The House's Failure

  • It's hard for a broken political system to fix a broken financial system.
  • The deepest cause of this failure is that many, many voters are at once stunningly uninformed about public affairs and deluded by populist simplicities ranging from Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter's perception of "Bolshevik" tendencies in the Bush administration's rescue plan to many Democrats' reluctance to save the financial system if doing so might possibly enrich some undeserving Wall Street fat cats.
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Frank Schaeffer: Why Is Palin Such a Good Liar For God?

  • Speaking as a former right wing Evangelical who helped organize the Religious Right in the 1970s and early eighties, nothing instills conviction like believing you're on a mission from God. If you're going to fool others, you have to fool yourself.
03 Oct 08

Firedoglake » Economic Consequences of the Bailout Plan

  • Because the US does not run a balance of payments surplus this is a game that can't go on forever, as it has in Japan. The US still needs outside money and that money will get more and more expensive and will eventually be turned off entirely. How long? Two to four years is my guess.

Toyota Prius Battery Problems - Electric Motors Rethink at Toyota - Popular Mechanics

  • So with lithium-ion technology finally advanced enough for the world to resurrect the electric car by late 2009, why is the world's No. 1 automaker suddenly questioning its viability? At a sustainability seminar held here recently amidst all the hybrid hype, Toyota officials offered predictions that suggest the utopian picture of our plug-in future may be premature. "Plug-in hybrids will go to market, but we should have reasonable expectations," said Bill Reinert, national manager of Toyota's Advanced Technology Group.

Op-Ed Columnist - Edge of the Abyss - NYTimes.com

  • As recently as three weeks ago it was still possible to argue that the state of the U.S. economy, while clearly not good, wasn’t disastrous — that the financial system, while under stress, wasn’t in full meltdown and that Wall Street’s troubles weren’t having that much impact on Main Street.
  • But that was then.

A charged debate over Prop. 7 renewable energy plan - Los Angeles Times

  • SACRAMENTO --

    Proposition 7 on the November ballot aims to hurry the day when more of California's electricity comes from windmills, solar panels and other oil-free sources, requiring the state's utilities to get half their power from renewable energy by 2025.
  • But it would actually hinder renewable electricity production, according to an unusual coalition of opponents that includes environmental groups, solar and wind companies that may appear to stand to profit from the measure, and the state's three biggest private utilities.
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