Common Folk Using Common Sense

I bow before those with more knowledge on cell phones, as I am a not. Are any of y’all “cell phone geniuses”? I have AT&T. I’m eligible to upgrade phone now but can’t spend big $$$ (I’ve always bought re-furbs). My complete contract expires in December. My current phone’s keyboard is acting up, and I [...]

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Says The Associated Press: In time for the widely expected launch of a new iPhone model, carrier AT&T Inc. is pulling in the reins on data usage by its customers with smart phones and iPads. The sole U.S. carrier of the iPhone is introducing two new data plans, starting June 7, with limits on data [...]

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From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post: All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William) Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like [...]

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From Bloomberg: Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits. “It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said in an interview. “We’re better off taking lots of people and [...]

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From FOX News: The clock is ticking. At 12:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, scientists on the Franco-Swiss border will flip the switch on the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile underground ring where subatomic particles will be accelerated to astonishing speeds and then smashed into each other. It’ll be months before any usable data comes out from [...]

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From Mozilla: MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 17, 2008 – Mozilla today released Firefox® 3, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox 3 is the culmination of three years of efforts from thousands of developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe. Available [...]

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From Power Line via The Rottweiler: For several decades, the Democratic Party has pursued policies designed to drive up the cost of petroleum, and therefore gas at the pump. Remarkably, the Democrats don’t seem to have taken much of a political hit from the current spike in gas prices. Probably that’s because most people don’t [...]

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From The Advocate: To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are — a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was [...]

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At what point do Palestinian terror and missile attacks constitute a breach of a “ceasefire”?

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A Hezbollah missile, manufactured by Iran, is fired into Israel every 11 minutes.

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SiteAdvisor has pioneered a new approach to Web safety by alerting you of spyware infections, identity theft scams, and sites which send excessive e-mail.

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Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh, India. After a brief two year stint at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India, he transferred to the California Institute of Technology where he received his Bachelor’s degree, and then went on to receive his Master’s degree from Stanford University. He launched the web-based email service [...]

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For decades, the nation had a heavily regulated, highly profitable national phone company run by AT&T and known as Ma Bell. The market is now knitting the pieces back together – for better or worse.

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Several vulnerabilities have been reported in the Mozilla web browser.

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Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to send queries as text messages over your mobile phone.

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