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Government Admits Failure, Market Steps In To Protect Consumers
Posted on April 14, 2008 - Filed Under Living Free, Personal Finance | Leave a Comment
According to the Federal Trade Commission total consumer fraud losses as result of identity theft totaled $1.2 billion, with the average monetary loss for an individual at $349. This despite hundreds of state and federal laws against identity theft, a Presidential Task Force on Identity Theft, and millions of dollars in stolen tax money being given away by the Department of Justice in the form of grants to combat this scourge on American’s privacy, pocketbooks, and peace of mind. In…
IM Smileys I Can Actually Use
Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under Technology | 1 Comment
You know that popup/banner ad with the really annoying smileys that start yapping when you accidentally roll over the ad? Well, a couple of them are pretty cute, but I’d feel sleazy using them because of their annoying ads. Not to mention I don’t trust the company to not drop a trojan or flood me with popups. Well, I’ve finally found a safe alternative!
SweetIM provides smiley’s, emoticons, winkys, sound effects, nudges and more for use over any Instant Messenger, web-based email…
The Market Finally Takes Down DRM - Copyright Quivers In Boots
Posted on January 8, 2008 - Filed Under Living Free, Technology | Leave a Comment
Part of the Applied Anarchy 2008 Series - Previous in series Next in series
I really need to move BusinessWeek a bit higher on my must read list, as I nearly missed this wonderful bit of news-
In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of music downloaded from the Internet, BusinessWeek.com has learned. Sony…
How Oblivious Would You Like Your President?
Posted on January 2, 2008 - Filed Under Vote 2008 | 1 Comment
Okay, I know all of the Presidential candidates are mighty busy with less than 24 hours before the Iowa Caucus, and my opinions on the television writer’s strike have been made pretty clear, but can the so-called leading Republican candidate really be this oblivious-
NEW YORK (AP) — The return of TV’s late-night funnymen after a two-month strike hiatus turned into a bizarre mix of picketing and presidential politics Wednesday as Mike Huckabee headed for Jay Leno’s show and Hillary Clinton turned…
Research Into The Amount Of Tea Tax Inspiring Boston Tea Party
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under Boston Tea Party, Taxes | 7 Comments
Part of the Boston Tea Party Series - Previous in series
On Saturday I posted a first hand account of the Boston Tea Party written by George Hewes, an impoverished colonial cobbler and member of the Sons of Liberty. In that article I stated that it was a 3% tax on tea that inspired the famous Boston Tea Party. 
Sara left the following comment-
Aahz, I totally agree on the apathy of citizens about paying INTOLERABLE taxes….In my younger days,…
Can Yahoo And Adobe Trim eBook Scams?
Posted on December 1, 2007 - Filed Under Earning Online, Paid To Write, Technology | Leave a Comment
Stumbled across an interesting post over at Top 10 Tech Web Tips last week, titled Adobe And Yahoo Partner [To] End Scammy Ebook Deals-
Yahoo and Adobe have decided to work together to provide PDF documents that will run advertising within those PDF documents. This will enable publishers to receive advertising revenue through their virally circulated PDF documents. That is a significant advancement and could decrease publishers needs to sell those same PDF documents upfront.
Valid publishers with good contents won’t need…
