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Sen. Dodd's New Banking Bill Would Reshape the Financial World

© SEIU International In October of 2008 Alan Greenspan conceded that an unregulated free market would not regulate itself as a matter of self-interest on its own part... “Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, mysel...

Goldman Sachs and God

Hard to go past this interview with Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein in The Times where he claims bankers are doing "God's work". "We’re very important," Blankfein says. "We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows ...

Seen that? - France Tightens Family Immigration

... Who would have thought? As the Senate began work on a comprehensive immigration Bill, lawmakers from both parties demanded substantial changes in the legislation on Monday and forc...

TechFlash discusses roadblocks to innovation in America

Monica Harrington at TechFlash posts on "Innovation: Nine hurdles facing America as a center of tech" discussing our country's challenges in maintaining an education system, and therefore workforce, capable of maintaining the lead in global technical innovation. This isn't really an article for...

Seen that? - An introduction to thin provisioning

An introduction to thin provisioning at On Storage An introduction to thin provisioning: One of the more important but often misunderstood advancements within data storage is thin provisioning. This article defines and discusses thin provisioning,...

Seen that? - $100 Hamburger

$100 Hamburger at The Aviation Weblog One of the reasons I wanted to learn to fly is so I could get what every pilot alive calls the "$100 Hamburger." One of the places I want to do that is Patti's Settlement at Grand Rivers, Kentuck...

Too big to fail is too dumb

The US government is moving on financial firms that are "too big to fail" and where the government has no choice but to "rescue" them when they get into trouble. Its plan is to make it easier for the government to seize control. The Financial Stability Improvement Act needs to be consi...

Pay Yourself First

...e same advice. But it’s hard. That money could be used someplace else. You could pay the phone bill, could pay down debt... The people at Get Rich Slowly look at the why and how of paying yours...

Google Docs Batch Export

• Google Docs Batch Export • Free Online Password Manager, Software, Storage, Password Keeper • Read Faster Now - ReadSpeeder, the Free Speed Reading System • Browse jobs by job title, location, company and industry | iNerc. • SpareFoot - Find Best Deals on Cheap Self-Storage in our Ope...

Schwarzenegger Signs Bill to Liberalize California Wine Laws

© Donnaphoto Decanter.com is reporting on a change in California's wine laws that will allow wineries more freedom to market their products directly to the local public. Sponsored by the Wine Institute, the law will allow winemakers to sell their wines in licensed venues away from the...

微软公布 2010 财年第一季度财报

微软已经公布 截至 2009 年 9 月 30 日的第一财季财报。营收为 129.2 亿美元，同比下滑 14%。当季运营利润为 44.8 亿美元，净利润为 35.7 亿美元，稀释后每股收益 40 美分，同比分别下滑 25%，18% 和 17%。 微软当季业绩还包括了一笔 14.7 亿美元的递延营收，对稀释后每股收益的影响为 12 美分，这笔营收与 Windows 7 Upgrade Option 项目以及微软向 OEM 和零售商销售 Windows 7 的营收有关。若包括这笔递延营收，微软当季营收为 143.9 亿美元，同比下滑 4%，当季每股收益 52 美分，同比增长 8%...

Bailed out banks continue to live it up

Like pigs at a trough, the US banks were wallowing in US government bailout but at the same time, they were handing out perks to their executives that had taken them to the brink of disaster. While 8 million jobs have been destroyed in this recession, perks for executives at the bailed out ba...

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0

• AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0 • Twitter is Launching Its Own 'Fledgling' Wine Label • Windows 7 Command Prompt Supports Drag & Drop • Twitterfeed Floods User's Streams With Old Blog Posts • Linux equivalents to popular Mac apps • How to Pin Special Windows Items to the Taskbar ...

Times dismisses Microsoft

The New York Times has published a scathing critique of Microsoft's current status and prospects, marking a new low in the prevailing conception of the company's chances as the industry spins slowly on an axis leading away from the traditional desktop market it dominates. While haters such as mys...

US Immigration Reform: Maybe Next Year...

...ailed last week to keep provisions addressing illegal immigration in the Homeland Security spending bill, the latest sign that Democrats want to hold off on that debate until next year. I guess health...

Seen that? - Stingley represented NFL's good side

Stingley represented NFL's good side at End Zone Buzz ap photo Fred Jewell Nearly 30 years ago, New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley lost his NFL career and all movement from his neck down, to one vicious hit from Raiders safety Jack...

Greentech Sees Venture Capital Growth

© Jimmy_Joe Renewable Energy World is reporting that venture capital investment is on the upswing - at least in the green technology sector of the economy. Third quarter numbers are out, and they're encouraging for both VC's and the greentech sector. Q1 this year saw 59 deals wo...

Chamber of Commerce versus Apple

Last week, I did a blog entry looking at how corporations were leaving the US Chamber of Commerce because of its stance on climate change. This week, it was Apple's turn. It left the chamber of Commerce with Catherine A. Novelli, vice president, Worldwide Government Affairs of Apple sta...

Bill Gates bleibt reichster US-Bürger

© Domain Barnyard Das englischsprachige Wirtschaftsmagazin Forbes hat mal wieder eines seiner berühmten Ranglisten veröffentlicht. Und die Frage, wer 2009 der reichste US-Amerikaner ist, wird nun schon zum 16. Mal mit dem selben Namen beantwortet: Microsoft-Begründer Bill Gates. Mit einem ge...

Four ways to create jobs in the recession

Unemployment in the United States will keep rising and will push beyond 10%. So how to fix it? And where can people find work? The Wall Street Journal reports that while it will be years before lost jobs return, health care and education will remain the key areas for jobs growth. These areas...

Seen that? - US Cell Phone Records for Sale

...gnificant amount of time), and even telephone [...] Read More I'm Just a (Cell Phone) Bill, Yes, I'm Only a (Cell Phone) Bill... at The Wireless Weblog ...

Chamber of commerce: denying and splitting

The US Chamber of Commerce has long been dragging its heels on climate change, coming out against the Waxman-Markey bill and claiming that fossil fuels "are and will remain for decades to come the backbone of the US energy system". Now cracks are starting to appear in the face with...

The Rich Not Quite So Rich At the Moment

© Domain Barnyard A recent Forbes article points out that America's richest people have become a little less rich as a result of the recession. VentureBeat took a look at the numbers... Warren Buffett's wealth took a dive this past year, losing $10 billion in value on his shares in B...

U.S. House Committee Passes Informed P2P User Act

© cliff1066™ The U.S. House Committee on Commerce and Energy has passed the Informed P2P User Act (HR 1319) . "The bill would make it illegal for P2P developers to make software that causes files from a computer to be inadvertently shared over a P2P network without a user's kn...

IT 史十大辉煌时刻

美国科技网站 TechRepublic 日前评出了 IT 史上的十大辉煌时刻排行榜，其中包括 COBOL 编程语言、ARPANET 网络、Unix 操作系统诞生和微软 Windows 95 操作系统发布等等。 TechRepublic 认为，尽管 IT 发展史并不长，但仍有不少"分水岭"式的事件值得人们记住。对于 IT 发展史上各类事件的重要程度，业界专家的看法并不尽相同。尽管如此，在已上榜的 10 大事件中，不少应该能够获得绝大多数业界人士的一致赞同，即这些产品有着不同寻常的历史意义。 以下就是 TechRepublic 所评出 IT 史上十大辉煌时刻简介： 1...

Martha's Vineyard: 美国总统的度假圣地

你在 Martha's Vineyard 买不到巨无霸汉堡。1979 年，位于美国马萨诸塞州 Cape Cod 的这座小岛上的活动家们 — 比如 James Taylor 和 Mia Farrow — 经过努力，挫败了麦当劳将其加盟店扩展到这里的企图。 最不"美国"的度假胜地 这里也没有肯德基或必胜客，没有零售中心，没有连锁商店，没有高层公寓，没有霓虹灯。你在 iPhone 上得不到可靠的方向指示，在岛上的某些地方你甚至接收不到移动电话信号。这里没有多车道公路，没有交通信号灯。你不能开快车，因为这里最高限速为每小时 45 英里，...

California's Alternative Energy Bill

...oal of seeing 33% of California's energy come from renewable sources by 2020. Opponents of the bill, SB 14, say it will require pricey construction of new power plants, transmission lines and othe...

Top Venture Capital Blogs

TechCrunch had a nice resource piece last week on the top venture capital blogs. Are you reading them? It's a great way to keep up with the trends and issues involved in the VC industry today. Guy Kawasaki 's blog ( How to Change the World ) is at the top of the heap at the moment with o...

Best Uses for Unexpected Income

Small windfalls can ocassionally help you on the road to successfully managing your personal finances. But it depends on what you do with the money. What would you do with extra money this month? You make fifty (or maybe a hundred) extra dollars at a yard sale. Time for a movie and a nice restaur...

The new normal

Don't expect us to return to the "old" normal. Things will not be the same when the recovery comes, despite what the politicians and sections of the financial media tell you. PIMCO managing director Bill Gross says everything has changed and in this note , he calls it the "...

3 Ways to Save on Toner Costs

© ryaninc We can all admit that toner's not cheap. And despite how much we want to live in a paperless world, there's still a huge expectation to provided printed documentation in many areas of our lives. However, there are some helpful little tricks to save your ink, and therefore save...

Google 是“只会一招的小马”？

Bill Gates 曾表示， Google 的好日子即将结束。微软为何持这一观点？ Larry Page 和 Sergey Brin 这两位斯坦福大学的学生于 1998 年创建了 Google 。现在 Google 每年营收在 200 亿美元以上。 Google 在搜索引擎领域掀起了革命，迫使既定竞争对手如微软、Yahoo 和 AOL 改变其战略。但微软高管似乎对 Google 并不在意。 Gates 是在微软与 Yahoo 联盟后发表上述声明的。微软 - Yahoo 结盟能抵御 Google 的威胁。微软 CEO Steve Ballmer 称 Google 是"只会一招...

The REAL Condition of the Venture Capital Industry

Bill Gurley has a long-but-interesting article online at the moment about what's really going on in the venture capital industry. And since I like people with the guts to stand up and say that they can cut through the crap and tell you what's really going on, I thougth I'd give...

Über Gewinner und Verlierer

  © Hedwig Seipel Bevor ich meine Nachfolgerin Hedwig Seipel vorstelle, möchte ich in die Mottenkiste der Menschheitsgeschichte greifen und Gewinner und Verlierer rausziehen. Als die Mongolen zu Pferd ihre Eroberungsfeldzüge durchführten, waren sie wahre Spezialisten in der Kriegführung ...

DC 出品 魔兽世界 恶魔猎手 伊利丹

• DC 出品 魔兽世界 恶魔猎手 伊利丹 • Microsoft Opens Popfly Source Code • 1 Million Public Domain Books Added To Google Books • 道琼斯指数的"改嫁"疑云 • Vidly: Twitvid.io Changes Names, Direction, And Gets Funding • Belgian teenager latest victim of exploding iPhone phenomenon • The Snuggie Sutra •...

Skanks, Hos and Anonymity in New York

I have a Blogger account. I've been busy, so I haven't published anything there for about two weeks now. I've skimmed through my terms of service in the past and nothing in it has every led me to believe that Google (who owns Blogger) would protect my identity if I did something ...

Microsoft and the black guy

Hey Microsoft, what happened to the black guy? The BBC reports that Microsoft has been forced to apologize after editing a photo to replace a black man's head to that of a white man. The original pic was for the firm's US website but Microsoft edited that out for the Polish market. T...

Healthcare: the Impact on Small Business

© SarahMcD ॐ The debate over healthcare (and health insurance reform) is far from over. A piece of proposed legislation, H.R. 3200, has gotten a lot of scrutiny. But there is no single, unified bill before tghe whole of Congress yet. So the impact on small business (or anyone else, for that m...

Will We Soon Be Paying for Content?

Internet advertising has one foot in the grave and Congress is thinking about helping it into the coffin. If it dies completely, what will the new revenue model be for the Internet? There aren't many choices. BusinessWeek looked in some detail at the most obvious of those choices recently: p...

The smart meter revolution

Much has been said about the shift to smart meters and the shift to an smart grid for electricity. This morning I had a piece in the paper explaining how smart meters will crank up the price of electricity. The scary thing about smart meters is that it delivers more power to electricity comp...

And Google Said, Let There Be Chrome Bookmark Sync

• And Google Said, Let There Be Chrome Bookmark Sync • SHORTURL FEUD: Tr.im Slams Twitter and Bit.ly, Goes Open Source • No Further Android Updates for G1; No "Sense" for MyTouch 3G? • i.TV 2.0 for iPhone coming soon to an App Store near you • Apple Event Scheduled for Wednesda...

Coal industry forged letters in anti-climate change fight

On the weekend, I did a blog entry on how the oil industry was planning a sneaky grass roots campaign to derail Obama's climate change legislation, holding "Energy Citizen" rallies with companies sending their employees out to protest against any laws controlling global warming....

Cocaine dollars

...ment, bankruptcy, foreclosure and mortgage delinquency figures. And before you rush off to sniff a bill, the Big Bear Observation Post blog makes the point that there isn't enough of the stuff ...

Who says you are a CIO?

John C. Dvorak's accusation that Obama appointee to the US CIO role, Vivek Kundra, is a phony seems to be mostly a flash in the pan so far but it seems like the sort of thing that the mainstream media might pick up on just for shock value so I am getting the popcorn ready. Dvorak's p...

10 个最搞笑的 Google 搜索建议

• 10 个最搞笑的 Google 搜索建议 • Schumi 放弃复出 F1 • More iTunes 9 details, Apple developing social networking application? • How To Make uTorrent Portable • Help test some next-generation infrastructure • Night Launch • Engineering POV: IE6 • Twitter is ... • Dashboard Updates: Xbox LIVE Upda...

Climate change junket for Congress

Diving on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, waking up in a plush hotel in Waikiki and spending New Years Eve in Christchurch watching fire works. All part of the job for members of Congress who went on a fact finding mission to investigate climate change. According to The Wall Street Journa...

Apple et le tablet PC

...'il sera la forme la plus populaire de PC vendue en Amérique. Perdu Bill, mais être un visionnaire n'a jamais été ton fort, tu sais), * Apple a toujours été fort pour faire parler de tout ce...

Fate stay night /命运之夜 最强的从者 SABER 制服版手办

• Fate stay night /命运之夜 最强的从者 SABER 制服版手办 • 如果，Twitter 只有 100 个用户... • StarCraft II delayed till early 2010 • The Top Entrepreneurs of the Last 100 Years • Ross Brawn 超速驾驶，可能连驾照都要丢了 • 记者暗访：世界品牌实验室为避嫌暂停500强排榜 • SeamSters • Jewelry Platinum - King of Metals • 美在线支付平台Bill.com获850万美元投资 ...

What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make

It can happen for a host of reasons. Maybe you've lost your job. Maybe your employer has cut back your hours. Maybe you're going through a serious injury. You might even be struggling through a messy divorce. All of these can cause you to miss a mortgage payment. Or more. You wouldn't...

A Look at Health Care Reform

The conceptual dust and confusion that surrounds the issue of health care reform at the moment is exceeded only by the emotion the issue generates. So it seems like a good time to examine the issue - first, what's being considered. There is currently no final Bill in either the House or t...

South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina is one of the most charming and historic cities in the southern U.S. Add to that the fact hat it has its own beaches and you get a great place to visit. USA Today had a feature recently on how to see Charleston without breaking your piggybank. You don't need deep p...

For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky

• For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky • Massa 之鉴，Renault 遭禁 • 七龙珠/魔人布欧树脂手办 • Twitter Generates $48 Million of Media Coverage in a Month • 巴菲特：看卡通，跟我学理财 • PNG Optimization Guide: More Clever Techniques • Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man • Ericsson Wins Auction to Bu...

Google's Android To Invade Homes

• Google's Android To Invade Homes • MANLY 120色眼影 混合色/珠光/亚光/钻石眼影 • GeoChirp • How To Make Free Calls From Your Computer With Google Voice • Alice in Wonderland 官方预告片 • BrideTide | Wedding News | Everything Wedding • ThinnerView.com • Trendmetr :: Live Twitter Buzz Monitoring • V...

The Coming Privacy Bill

BusinessWeek had an insightful article early this month on the possibility that an Internet privacy bill could be brewing in Congress. It made for interesting reading and it highlighted a weakness in the ad industry. The crux of the issue is simple. At the moment, third party cookies exist all ...

Computer Fachchinesisch

© Unhindered by Talent Computer haben unseren Alltag erobert. Und dazu gehören auch die vielen, zum Teil sehr kompliziert klingenden Fachausdrücke, die wir täglich hören, aber nicht immer verstehen. Aus diesem Grund möchte ich Ihnen jetzt und auch in Zukunft Fachbegriffe aus der Informatik vo...

Can manufacturing be saved?

Can Obama save US manufacturing? That's the question raised by the New York Times which points out that US administration has so far pursued only ad hoc initiatives, like helping General Motors and Chrysler and looking to green energy as a way of rebuilding the manufacturing sector. The pa...

Celebrating Fifty Years of an Enthusiast-Built Race Track

If you live in an area of the US or Canada that happens to be far from the Pacific Northwest the name "Westwood" may not ring any bells. But for folks in BC, Washington, Idaho and Oregon, Vancouver's long-lost road race circuit remains a boatload of memories. It was carved out of th...

Regulating PE's & VC's? Treasury Wants To...

The US Treasury Department proposed a bill earlier this month that would regulate venture capital, private equity firms and hedge funds that had more than $30 million in assets. Registration with the SEC would mean more detailed reporting. Firms would have to periodically disclose their as...

Bill Gates 称 ChromeOS 无新意，只是 Linux 罢了

微软董事长 Bill Gates 近日在接受外界采访时表示，Google Chrome OS 实质上只是一款 Linux 操作系统，因此本身并无任何新意。 Google 上周 公布 Chrome OS 开发计划 后，立即引起了全球科技产业的广泛关注。不少分析人士认为， Chrome OS 将向微软 Windows 业务发起直接挑战，至少将于近期内在上网本市场蚕食微软 Windows 的市场份额。 Gates 在谈到 Chrome OS 时表示："目前市场上已出现了各种形式的 Linux 操作系统，这些产品只不过是封装形式不同，并采取了不同的用户界面。但有些人认为 (Goog...

第 61 届艾美奖提名公布

第61届艾美奖提名今天公布，今年的提名名单上多了一些新面孔，如《恶搞之家》、《弦乐航班》等，不过《我为喜剧狂》依然以创纪录的22项提名独领风骚（获得提名包括最佳喜剧、最佳喜剧男女主角、最佳喜剧男女配角、最佳喜剧剧本、最佳喜剧导演等），就连客串该剧的詹妮弗·安尼斯顿也获得了最佳客串演员的提名。 本届艾美奖将于9月20日（周日）颁奖，届时CBS电视台将直播颁奖典礼。以下是主要奖项的提名名单：

Mosley 写公开信确认 10 月退休

• Mosley 写公开信确认 10 月退休 • 动漫周边/地狱少女/じごくしょうじょ/铃铛手链 • Cool! NASA will let you send your name to Mars (for free) • Critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 • 社交媒体初创企业五大商业模式：虚拟商品牟利 • Bill Gates on Google's Chrome OS • Meet Google, Your Phone Company • Not an Upgrade - an Upheav...

Free is Good...

© kevindooley It's a disruptive business model, according to Above the Crowd : Free. How can you compete with free ? Free is a disruptive force. This does not mean that if you deploy a free business model you will be successful. In many (perhaps even most) cases you will not. However, i...

An X-shaped recession

Last month, I did a blog entry explaining why the real unemployment figures are worse than what the official statistics tell us. Now The Wall Street Journal takes it one step further and gives us 10 reasons why the US economy is worse than we think . More companies are asking people to take ...

Oxfordshire: Riesen-Kaninchen küßt Hund!

  © CATERS NEWS AGENCY Das ist wesentlich interessanter, wenn ein Kaninchen einen Hund küßt, als wenn ein Mensch einen Hund beißt oder wenn gar der Letzte von Hunden gebissen wird. Ob das Riesenkaninchen Benny, das vom Ehepaar Heather in Oxfordshire gehalten wird, ins Guiness-Buch der ...

Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?

I happily voted for Barack Obama last year. I was thrilled to see George Bush and his cronies swept away. But I had no illusions: I knew that fixing the country's problems, especially its struggling economy, would require a long, hard slog. I knew, too, that things weren't magically g...

LaCie’s LaCinema Rugged External HDD Is One Tough Media Server

Making certain products rugged makes a lot of sense. Rugged laptops are a must for some careers, and rugged cellphones and flash drives are great because of how fragile those devices typically are. A media center however, may not need to stand up to the harshest of conditions, but that has not ...

Jackson's funeral: taxpayers foot the bill

The California economy is in meltdown. So why do taxpayers have to pay for Michael Jackson's funeral? An expensive live event for a dead superstar. The Los Angeles Times reports that inquiries are under way into how the city ended up paying $1.4 million for the funeral. That includes 3500...

Warren Buffett 捐赠 15 亿美元股票

据上周末提交的一份监管文件 显示 ，股神 Warren Buffett 已经按照 2006 年作出的承诺，捐献了价值约为 15 亿美元的 Berkshire Hathaway 股票作为慈善基金。 文件显示， Buffett 向 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 捐献了 428688 股的 Berkshire Hathaway 公司的 B 类股票，并向四个家族慈善基金捐赠了 87884 股股票。 在捐出上述股票以后， Buffett 仍持有3 5 万股的 Berkshire Hathaway 公司的 A 类股票和 1501532 股的 B 类股票。按照...

Neverland's future: up for grabs

So what's going to happen now with Neverland? It would have to be flogged. Here's why. The only thing that kept Michael Jackson from bankruptcy was his half ownership of the copyrights to The Beatles catalogue. He owned them in a joint venture with record company Sony. But with his liab...

The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest

Hard to go past Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone where he accuses it of engineering every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Taibbi doesn't pull any punches either. He calls it the "Wall Street bubble mafia". He writes: "If America is circling the drain...