snydeq writes "The office of San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has made public close to 150 usernames and passwords used by various departments to connect to the city's VPN. The passwords were filed this week as Exhibit A in a court document arguing against a reduction in $5 million bail in the case ag... More at slashdot.org
The 401(k) providers don't actually care how they make money, just as long as they make a tidy profit. That's why so many providers offer the employer low-cost plans and make up the difference by offering the employees very expensive mutual fund options. These 401(k) providers make a bundle off of the really lousy choi... More at digg.com
MojoKid writes "Earlier this week, Microsoft was reported to be arranging a kind of 'blind taste test' to get die-hard Windows XP users to try Vista. They were told that they were trying a new OS, called Mojave. The report went on to suggest that users liked the OS, though they were actually running Vista. Now it ... More at slashdot.org
A great Olympic warm-up. This took place during the 2000 Sydney qualifying rounds. The swimmer is from Equatorial Guinea and he is a FORCE!... More at digg.com
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The 2008 Tour de France cycling race is now over, won by Spain's Carlos Sastre, with a time of 87h 52m 52s. Sastre beat second-place finisher Cadel Evans of Australia by only 58 seconds, over a 21 stage course that added up to over 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles). This entry covers the second half (including mountain st... More at digg.com
Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.... More at digg.com
MobileMe's rocky start has been splashed all over the Internet by now, including the application, billing, and e-mail issues that users have been grappling with. Now, Apple is doing some splashing of its own.... More at digg.com
Yankees starting pitcher Joba Chamberlain spent his Wednesday afternoon playing Guitar Hero: Aerosmith with some lucky fans. He took a break to talk to us about a variety of subjects.... More at si.com
Since version 2 came out in 2005, Google Desktop for Windows has included a sidebar that users can fill with screen gadgets, but the Linux version (version 1, from June 2007) provided only indexing and search functions, with no eye candy whatsoever. This has finally changed. Google recently released Google Gadgets for ... More at digg.com
Taking the matter head-on, Apple is now fully acknowledging the problems it's had with MobileMe in the past two weeks as well as the attempts to fix it -- to the point where company chief Steve Jobs is involved.An anonymous Apple worker has been tasked by Jobs with providing multiple updates per week on a dedicated sta... More at digg.com
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BobB writes to tell us that what one company is calling the "world's cheapest laptop" is now available at the price of $130. Unfortunately if you want to buy one you will also need to convince 99 of your closest friends to go in on an order with you since you cannot buy in less than units of 100. We have cove... More at slashdot.org
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