According to a new analysis, one out of five Web users still decides to leave the digital equivalent of a key under the doormat: they choose a simple, easily guessed password like “abc123,” “iloveyou” or even “password” to protect their data. [...]
Why do so many people continue to choose easy-to-guess passwords, despite so many warnings about the risks?
Security experts suggest that we are simply overwhelmed by the sheer number of things we have to remember in this digital age. [...]
But bowing to the reality of our overcrowded brains, the experts suggest that everyone choose at least two different passwords — a complex one for Web sites were security is vital, such as banks and e-mail, and a simpler one for places where the stakes are lower, such as social networking and entertainment sites.
A TSA worker was staring at her. He motioned her toward him.The aftermath will shock you.
Then he pulled a small, clear plastic bag from her carry-on - the sort of baggie that a pair of earrings might come in. Inside the bag was fine, white powder.
She remembers his words: "Where did you get it?"
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updated 1:43 p.m. ET, Thurs., Jan. 21, 2010
WASHINGTON - In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down laws that banned corporations from using their own money to support or oppose candidates for public office.
By 5-4 vote, the court overturned federal laws, in effect for decades, that prevented corporations from using their profits to buy political campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states.
A young Motswana Hollywood star, Donald Molosi, says he is currently seeking permission from the Khama family to formally launch his solo play titled Blue, Black and White.
Molosi said the play on Khama was inspired by books that he had read whilst studying Political Economy and Theatre at Williams College in Massachusetts in the United States of America (US). He said he tried looking around to find if there had been anything visual that had been done on Khama but realised there was none, which is why he made it a duty to produce one himself.
It is only sensible to be concerned about--yes, even to fear--what may come of the alliance between this shrewd, driven, narcissistic woman and the massive propaganda apparatus that has embraced her. We have an obligation to remember what can happen when charismatic leaders seize the imaginations of frightened people and feed them a steady diet of rage and self-pity, embellished by creepy visions of the divine and of national destiny. Here where I live, in rural Ohio, you can feel the impact of Palinism, now so scarily amplified by Fox.
The combination of white racial resentment, high unemployment, and the transformation of the culture, plus simple, grinding fear (of the Other; of the unknown; of blacks and Jews and gays and migrant workers; of anything you care to name) has coalesced into something potentially quite dangerous. Ordinary people are just a pulse away from becoming a mob.
I'm not talking about rednecks and meth-heads, either--you hear the vilest expressions of grievance and rage coming from pleasant-looking, neatly-dressed people in the aisles of the supermarket or under the dryers at the local salon. Many of these people worship Palin. You actually hear them say things like, "Thank God for Fox! Thank God for Sarah!"
Q: Jets or Giants?Both of those guys are the team owners. Fail fail fail fail fail fail.
A. I had breakfast about every morning when I am in town, or I should say, several mornings, at the Regency. I see my friends the Tisches. Steve Tisch is my close personal friend. I have been to more Giants games. I spent the holidays, I had lunch over the holidays with Woody Johnson. We met for the first time. I am happy for his team.
This is how $10 million/year earners are living in Haiti: think about where that puts the normally impoverished population and you have a clue, to whatever extent a clue is possible from a safe computer seat in a much safer and better equipped country.by Ann Curry
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-- All hotels are down, so we are sleeping on the tarmac... Brian in a tent, me in a Canadian Air luggage container, many others on metal grates. In all cases, the ground is hard, so we are using blankets, pieces of foam, some of us even suitcases to sleep on top of.
We are worried about rats, which are numerous. There are lots of mosquitoes.
Hard to sleep because the planes are so loud, especially the c130s. We have to negotiate for bathrooms in nearby buildings, and are currently without one.
We brought in water, but are running out of food, which now consists of MREs. We hope for more supplies tomorrow.
Tonight we have a luxury... the crew of one plane gave us all airline pillows. We are definitely not comfortable, but we are also in the lap of luxury compared to so many here in Haiti.
How are we successful? There are no winners amongst us. We are all focused on getting the story out that must be told.
His Globe piece is presumably a good way to assess his platform. And it highlights all the bankruptcy of the current conservative establishment. Take a couple of issues. He starts by listing national problems:
Public debt has reached $12 trillion and counting, and Washington politicians want to borrow trillions more.His solution?
My plan for the economy is simple: an across-the-board tax cut - in the tradition of John F. Kennedy - for families and businesses that will increase investment and lead to immediate new job growth. More tax increases will hurt our recovery. That’s why I have taken a no-new-tax pledge. My opponent will raise taxes.Does anyone see the contradiction here? Without any tax increases, indeed with more tax cuts, the spending reductions required to reduce the debt will be fantastic: massive cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, and defense. Where does he outline these spending measures? Nowhere. Fiscally, he's as fraudulent as Bush.
Me: "So we'll do this on deep background, right?"
Them: "Yeah, but not 'Halperin deep background'--deep background."
Me: "Right. I can use the info, but if I want to quote I gotta run it by you first."
Them: "Yes. No book scenes, none of that stuff."
Me: "Yeah, yeah, I got it."
