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The US Transportation Security Administration which sets rules for items not allowed on flights has just changed its post 9/11 policy to allow for small pocketknives with blades smaller than 2.36 inches long and 0.5 inches wide. I know on the rare occasions when I’ve had to enter a public building and go through a…

The technology industry, in lobbying Congress for expansion of programs to attract skilled foreign workers, has long claimed that foreign students graduating from U.S. universities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are typically “the best and the brightest,”… The assertion that the foreign graduates offer superior skills or ability relative to U.S. graduates is found…

Mega-commuters are those whose daily commutes are more than 90 minutes and 50 miles. The SF Bay Area has more mega-commuters than any other metropolitan area measured by the US Census Bureau. source: Bay Area tops new ‘mega-commuter’ Census list defining the worst trips to work

OAKLAND — A Gold Rush-era jewelry box swiped from the Oakland Museum of California in a brazen January burglary has been recovered, and a parolee with 10 prior felony convictions has been charged with the crime. “We were so happy. We thought we were in the movie ‘National Treasure,’” Oakland police investigating Officer Michael Igualdo…

This is a new 5000K LED bulb I ordered. It actually contains several LED bulbs inside. It is extremely bright for its small size. This is an “intermediate” base or E17 bulb, about half the size of a standard bulb. This bulb is a test for cosmetics application. While I like the bulb, the temperature…

This morning I received an unbelievably bold phishing attack e-mail masquerading as a Paypal payment notification for a watch. Every detail of the e-mail looks exactly like a real payment notification e-mail that one would receive from Paypal after making an online purchase, except that all the hyperlinks in the e-mail go to http://gw-club.ru/wps.php?pprec This…

Finally got a keyboard case for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and am glad I did. It was a good decision. The keyboard is nice. For a text-oriented person like myself its really nice to be able to input via typing. I just spent a while setting up Dropbear SSH client to work from Android Terminal…

Video: Cyclists encourage Cairo residents to get on their bikes I could almost cry watching this video.

“Leaders” from Atherton, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto have vehemently opposed high-speed rail coming through their towns on its way up the San Francisco peninsula to downtown San Francisco where a major new main transportation center is being built in the center of downtown. Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and environmental groups in August 2008…

If there were a proposal to introduce slavery in the US those in favor of it would have no problem coming up with arguments that it is “good for America” and “good for the economy” almost identical to the arguments in favor of mass amnesty. Furthermore, if there were such a proposal, there would no…