The times, they are a changing... The wife got her copy of the United States Equestrian Federation rule book the other day – on a 2 gig. thumb drive. Micro Center sell them for $5.99 retail so I would expect they are even cheaper wholesale. Makes you wonder why anyone would choose to print and mail a large book.
'cause California does not have enough lawyers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081224/ap_on_re_us/new_law_school;_ylt=At1kRScv4YxvTVZJhhh8Co2s0NUE
SoCal law school tempts students with free tuition
By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent – Wed Dec 24, 1:30 pm ET
IRVINE, Calif. – A new law school opening next fall in Southern California is offering a big incentive to top students who might be thinking twice about the cost of a legal education during the recession: free tuition for three years.
The financial carrot is part of an ambitious strategy by Erwin Chemerinsky, a renowned constitutional law scholar and dean of the new school at the University of California, Irvine, to attract Ivy League-caliber students to the first new law school in the state in 40 years.
Fun reading for the holidays?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F24%2F1814222&from=rss
NSA's History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too
Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 24, @01:54PM from the as-long-as-it-passes-through-ft-meade dept. Security Communications Privacy United States Technology
Phil Sp. writes
"Government Attic, those fine investigative pack rats, have outdone themselves this time. Just posted: a declassified NSA document entitled A History of Communications Security, Volumes I and II: The David G. Boak Lectures [PDF] from 1973 and 1981. This is an absolutely fascinating look into how the NSA viewed (views?) communications security and touches on all sorts of topics, including public key crypto, economics, DES, tamper-resistance, etc. It was seemingly from a collection of lectures to new employees. The first 85 pages are heavily redacted but the remaining 80 or so are largely intact. It even concludes with a cryptogram puzzle for the reader!"
Interesting. Does this suggest people believe that online shopping is cheaper or is the recession over?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10128823-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Online spending doubles for weekend before Christmas
Posted by Michelle Meyers December 24, 2008 12:30 PM PST
Here's a little statistical cheer for online retailers bracing themselves for what many have been predicting will be a dismal holiday sales season.
The latest online retail spending report released by ComScore Tuesday shows that consumers last weekend spent almost double what they spent on the corresponding weekend before Christmas last year.
Interesting. Eventually you will abandon Windows, why not start learning a replacement operating system?
http://www.killerstartups.com/Blogging-Widgets/ossism-com-living-with-multiple-operating-systems
Ossism.com - Living With Multiple Operating Systems
Ossism is a new blog that adheres to a simple premise: enabling people to learn how to live with multiple operating systems. As the blogger himself (Mr. Justin Wong) points out, this weblog is directed at people who are a bit at sea when it comes to any unfamiliar OS, or to put it in other words, anything but Windows.
As a result, the list of categories that you can consult touches upon items such as “Linux”, “Windows” and “OSX”. Moreover, a thorough collection of “How-to” articles and guides are included for you to learn the ropes easily.
... Lastly, a section entitled “Resources” gathers together links of interest. These direct to the OSx86 project page and the Tombuntu website, as well as the Ubuntu Administrator portal. That is, sites that will appeal to any person who finds the premise of the blog compelling. If that description fits you, chances are a visit to the Ossism blog will provide some food for thought.
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