Sometimes a story is so local it jumps up and bites you. Such is the case with the stash of potentially explosive materials found in an apartment building in the town where I live. Say hey for Delmar, New York. It’s a mighty nice place. Delmar is a suburb of Albany. The kind of old [...]

continue reading.....

A lot of fundamentalist Christians see radical environmentalism as a neo pagan religion, so when some bimbo invoked a Mayan goddess, it was sure to raise a few eyebrows. From the WashingtonPost: Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening statement to [...]

continue reading.....

I would be telling a lie to say why I decided to review this single if I came up with some convoluted story. I am awash in unopened CD’s. So what makes this one stand out? Why would I listen to this rather than one of the others? I had never heard of Jaime Michaels [...]

continue reading.....

You may have noticed that the Internet is expanding. Major newspapers are publishing all their content online, because the readers expect and demand it. 23 of the 25 largest newspapers are seeing declines in readership. And if people aren’t buying newspapers, advertisers won’t place ads in them. Newspapers hire journalists to investigate the issues that [...]

continue reading.....

The latest ATM scam is so brilliantly simple, it’s hard to believe that it actually works. Apparently, banks’ fraud detection systems are unable to flag nearly simultaneous transactions from the same account. This leaves bank customers vulnerable to what’s been termed a “flash attack,” in which multiple scanners use a stolen debit card number to [...]

continue reading.....

Caring Facts Versus Abusive Opinions As one who was trained in theology as well as philosophy, I am influenced by the examples of two of our great humans of the past who were both executed by their jealous establishments — Jesus and Socrates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates I am not a religious believer, but I do ardently [...]

continue reading.....

Part I and II of this series of articles dealt with the evolution and functioning of the online media which many, including probably Mr. Ratan Tata, fail to grasp.  Part III dealt with the ‘promise of ethical business’ that ‘Brand Tata’ probably also meant, and salvaging that ‘Brand Tata’ now following the 2009-10 vehicle-recall example of  Toyota, another [...]

continue reading.....

Part I and II of this series of articles dealt with the evolution and functioning of the online media which many, including probably Mr. Ratan Tata, fail to grasp.  Part III, this section of the article, deals with the ‘promise of ethical business’ that ‘Brand Tata’ probably also meant, and salvaging that ‘Brand Tata’ now following the 2009-10 [...]

continue reading.....

“Vishing” occurs when criminals call victims on the phone and attempt to lure them into divulging personal information that can be used to commit identity theft. The name comes from “voice,” and “phishing,” which is, of course, the use of spoofed emails designed to trick targets into clicking malicious links. Instead of email, vishing generally [...]

continue reading.....