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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Get ready for a shakedown
Forbes’s Janet Novack says “Forget the promises. The government will grab lots more of your money.” One of the suggested solutions…a value-added tax. Hard to say whether or not a VAT would cripple an economy driven primarily by consumer spending, … Continue reading
Encrypt the whole disk, or just the parts?
RFO (Request for Opinions) on PGP Whole Disk Encryption: Interestingly, it is hard to find any negative articles on PGP, probably because most of them are written by IT pros who are only focused on the security, and not usability. … Continue reading
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Tagged disk images, full disk encryption, PGP, public key encryption
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The Age of Prosperity Is Over
From “The Curve” Dude: These issues aren’t Republican or Democrat, left or right, liberal or conservative. They are simply economics, and wish as you might, bad economics will sink any economy no matter how much they believe this time things … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Laffer, bailout, congress, supply side economics, taxation
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World’s Biggest Bubble
According to Bloomberg, it’s globalization itself.
Fly Fishing Tip #1682: Have Plenty of Excuses
Yesterday the catch was a grand total seven fish between three people – to add insult to injury the largest was a foul hooked tandem streamer victim that couldn’t be included in the count. Thankfully, however, we follow tip #1682 … Continue reading
The Risk To Venture Capital And Startups From The Financial Crisis
A lucid analysis of the predicament facing VCs and their investments as a result of the liquidity crisis, from Techdirt/Mike Masnick. Included within is this: Usually startups go through multiple rounds of funding, which the VC firm bakes into its … Continue reading
Roubini Says ‘Panic’ May Force Market Shutdown
Via Bloomberg: “We’ve reached a situation of sheer panic,” Roubini, who predicted the financial crisis in 2006, told a conference of hedge-fund managers in London today. “There will be massive dumping of assets” and “hundreds of hedge funds are going … Continue reading
Blackberry’s spam target discovery feature
Most email clients, including Blackberry devices, offer you the ability to turn off delivery confirmations and read receipts. This is supposed to be a good thing – spammers often send emails to arbitrary addresses with receipt requests, hoping to find … Continue reading
Tuesday Tidbits – October 21, 2008
Global finance sans a single unemployed investment banker Auctions are hot – when the chips are down, the wealthy stock up on jewelry and clothes! We’re in fly reel acquisition mode over here, but only because some manufacturers have turned … Continue reading
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Tagged auctions, bailout, bank acquisitions, Federal Reserve, fly reels, jewelry, Mad Money
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