Month: May 2009

Obama Will Propose $17 Billion in Budget Cuts – NYTimes.com "President Obama on Thursday will unveil nearly $17 billion in additional budget cuts for the coming fiscal year to showcase what a top adviser called a “constant” effort to find savings at a time when the government’s costs for bailouts, health care and wars are […]

BBC NEWS | Americas | US 'hate list' DJ to sue Britain "Conservative political commentator Michael Savage, real name Michael Alan Weiner, is one of 22 people barred for fostering extremism or hate." Freedom of the speech people we have it, Britain not so much. (tags: uk politics freedomofspeech) Indiana Bus Company Rejects Atheist Ad […]

Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle – Ars Technica "The NoScript Firefox extension faced a major backlash last week when users discovered that it was surreptitiously disrupting the operation of AdBlock Plus. The developers behind the two extensions turned the browser into a battleground as their conflict escalated. Mozilla has responded by proposing […]

Signs That Borrow-and-Spend Policies Aren’t Sustainable – NYTimes.com "The rising tab has prompted warnings from the Treasury that the Congressionally mandated debt ceiling of $12.1 trillion will most likely be breached in the second half of this year." Which was raised to that amount under W. Bush. (tags: politics budget debt economy economics obama) With […]

RideCharge – Taxi, Sedan, Shuttle Booking Online Or With Your Mobile Smartphone Looks like a neat system. (tags: iphone iphoneapps business travel mobile) Never store passwords in a database! And another one on the same thing. (tags: password security programming database hashing encryption) Coding Horror: You're Probably Storing Passwords Incorrectly The absolute basics on storing […]

Slashdot | NoScript Adds Subscriptions To Adblock Plus "Apparently, NoScript has taken to adding its own whitelist updates to Adblock Plus — so that the ads on the NoScript page show up — without notifying users." Pretty low of NoScript. (tags: business advertising javascript internet firefox mozillafirefox noscript adblockplus) Daily Show Explains the LHC | […]

Please stop wasting my time… | Carsten’s Random Ramblings "I just want you to get started on your task and get the job done." (tags: technology programming userinterface design) Souter Plans to Retire From Court, Report Says – NYTimes.com "Justice David Souter has told the White House that he will retire from the Supreme Court […]