Protect Your Home WiFi to Avoid the Risk of Copyright Infringement

A wireless network makes life more comfortable because you can access the Internet from virtually every corner of your home without any cables. The downside is obvious – you can’t stop the radio signals from going out of the house. That means, if you haven’t enabled security of your wireless router, someone in the neighborhood can easily piggyback on your WiFi connection

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Protect Your Home WiFi to Avoid the Risk of Copyright Infringement

WJA and Marie Claire Magazine throw a Wonderful Spring Fling

Great event tonight for the Womens Jewelry Assoc. metro chapter — hosted by Marie Claire magazine

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How to Edit Files That Require Admin Privileges

There are certain files and folders in Windows that you can only access when you are logged in as the administrator of that computer. For instance, if you ever need to block a website on your home computer through the hosts file, your would require administrative privileges. Similarly, you may not be able to execute all the commands at the command prompt if you not logged in as the admin

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Why Tablets Will Change Everything

I won a free iPad at Ad-Tech San Francisco. Since then, I have been playing with it and trying to figure out where it fits into my digital toolbox. I already have an iPhone and a MacBook, so do I really need this thing

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Max Hardy answers your Bang the Table questions

Max’s vast experience as a community engagement practitioner, combined with the fact that he’s used our product, means he’s ripe for the picking when it comes to answering people’s online engagement questions. Max Hardy has been with Twyfords for the past 13 years and a respected specialist in community engagement for just over 20

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Employment Law Complexity

Judge Charles Harris QC has reportedly told the Times that some aspects of the law have become so complex that Judges have to have it explained to them by academic experts and that a “torrent” of legislation has made the legal system incomprehensible to Judges and the public alike. Another Judge recently commented, following a Disability Discrimination case in the Employment Tribunal, that the public are “best off having nothing to do” with litigation and that he was “sympathetic to all litigants who get caught up in our legal system” I hear cries from HR advisers across the country – “what hope do we have if the Judges feel this way?!”

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The cool side of Science and Technology: DNA robots

My buddy Bill Scully kindly sent me the link to a superb WSJ article on DNA Robots: Source: WSJ  “For the first time, microscopic robots made from DNA molecules can walk, follow instructions and work together to assemble simple products on an atomic-scale assembly line, mimicking the machinery of living cells, two independent research teams announced Wednesday.” Nanobots, FTW!For the technically minded, you can read more about one of the team’s research in their letter to Nature an…

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Call for Applications 2011 American Craft Council Shows

Deadline: July 25, 2010 The ACC is now accepting applications for the 2011 American Craft Council Shows season. It’s an opportunity to exhibit and sell your handmade work across the country to thousands of craft buyers, collectors and enthusiasts. Gain national exposure and join a community of makers who have been juried into these prestigious events

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ICT for Accountability: Transparency "Bottom-Up"

At the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2010 in Santiago last week, I was able to gather a wealth of information and ideas regarding the use of ICT for accountability. In a session on this topic I had the chance to discuss with people who actually implement citizen media projects on the ground and shared their experience and insights. A number of very interesting and useful ideas came up: Accountability needs “bottom-up transparency”.

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Pharmacy giant puts spit kit plans on hold

Cross posted from Nature Medicine’s Spoonful of Medicine blog. The Walgreen pharmacy chain has halted plans to start selling home gene tests until after US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials complete their investigation into whether the kits made by Pathway Genomics require regulatory approval. In a letter dated 10 May, James Woods, deputy director of patient safety and product quality for the FDA’s medical device division, wrote to Pathway CEO James Plante that the company’s sali…

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San Diego home prices are increasing big-time! (Or are they?)

photo credit: BAR Photography Like everyone else with more than a passing interest in home prices and market trends, I have been reading the refrains of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” offered up by the San Diego Union this past week. And like a lot of others, I am a little skeptical. First, they brought us the

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More on research

While researching my post on the CDC’s findings regarding wireless households, Wireless living , I encountered a common problem with “old-school meets the web” publications. The original AP story, which would cost me $17.50 to quote (see rate sheet .), doesn’t include a link to the original CDC report.

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Wireless living

I first noticed this Associated Press article, 1 in 4 households with cell phone, no landline , on KurzweilAI.net . Interesting enough, but I got to wondering why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (aka CDC) did research on landline use. It would seem that the FCC or some other agency associated with telecommunications might be more likely to do such.

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Andrew Wakefield and the great autism fraud

If any one person is responsible for the current anti-vaccination hysteria, it’s Andrew Wakefield, the surgeon who cobbled up a very bad study of vaccination and autism. For a good overview, read this summary of a talk by Brian Deer, a reporter who also has a very thorough summary of the Wakefield affair. It’s amazing how sloppy the work was, and how lavishly Wakefield was paid for perpetrating it

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grounds and mediums

fluid acrylic over molding and crackle paste on canvas paper If you want to learn something, try teaching it. I’ve been using the following as texts for the creative water media class. They have helped me a lot in regard to acrylics

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Genetic tests coming to a drugstore near you

Next time you step foot in your local pharmacy to fill your prescription of anti-blood clotting drugs, you might consider picking up a personal genome kit to determine whether you’re actually responding to the medication. That scenario will soon be possible at around 6,000 Walgreen outlets across the US

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Lib-Con Cooperation and Coalition – but what will it mean for Employment Law and HR?

Now that the Liberal-Conservative coalition has been formed and the new Prime Minister has announced who takes which job, we take a look at the figures who will be likely to influence the future shape of Employment Law, HR and Industrial Relations over the coming years: Chancellor of the Exchequer: George Osborne (C).  It appears that tax rises will be required in addition to the public sector cuts promised by the Conservatives in the election campaign, to fund some of the concessions that Conservatives had to make in order to secure the Lib-Con deal.  A major win for the Liberal Democrats in the deal was to secure a commitment from the Conservatives to raise the income tax threshold to 10,000, but how will this be paid for?  It seems that tax rises for Capital Gains and Inheritance may be a more favourable option for the Conservatives, given their very clear and loud objection to the increase in National Insurance proposed by Labour during the campaign. Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills: Dr Vincent Cable (Lib Dem), whose areas of responsibility will include apprenticeships, graduate employment and much more

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Recipe Corner: Skinny Southern Chicken Creole

1 lb. skinless, boneless chicken breasts 1 cup chili sauce 14 oz. can canned tomatoes 1 ½ cups chopped celery ¼ cup chopped white onion 1 large green pepper, chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 teaspoon dried basil (or 1 tablespoon fresh) 1 teasooon dried parsley (or 1 tablespoon fresh) ¼ teaspoon red pepper, crushed ¼ teaspoon salt As needed, nonstick cooking spray 2 cups cooked whole wheat pasta 1

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Bigotry Against the Obese by Leaders of Massachusetts General Hospital and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts?

I am amplifying a post by Roy Poses entitled ” Why Pretend An Advertising Executive and Chamber of Commerce Leader Are Public Health Experts? “.

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10 Things You Can Do With Old CDs

If you have a bunch of old CDs and DVDs lying discarded around the house, here are some interesting ideas for things you can do with your collection of shiny disks. Instead of throwing them away, you can reuse old CDs for craft, as a holder for mobile phones or even a flower arrangement. [*] Click here if your feed reader doesn’t support videos

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