WASHINGTON — Taxpayers may soon be able to track how the federal government is spending their money with the click of computer mouse.

Paul Farhi at the Washington Post reports the death of Arthur Schiff.

Arthur Schiff, who died of lung cancer last week in Coral Springs, Fla., at 66, was a businessman who ran his own marketing company for 23 years. And his passing, like the man himself, was altogether quiet, with not a single newspaper noting his death.

Get lost in the Google crowd (and others) to hide your search tracks:

http://lostinthecrowd.org/

Anyone checked this tool/service extensively yet?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned this week that a recently patched Microsoft Windows vulnerability could put the nation's critical infrastructure at risk.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060810/tc_pcworld/126701

I was send a particularly nasty looking scam today, pointing at this page: here

I thought I'd go and tell "someone" about it but searching for a wat to report an internet crime in China was fruitless. I decided to report it to Interpol. No luck there - their contact page has no mail address for cybercrime.

From CNET

On the surface it seems a harmless treaty that would help countries fight hackers, terrorists, and so on. But there are some very disturbing things in this treaty that could not only infringe on the privacy of web users across the globe, but also change the "free speech" nature of the net.

We've all seen funny instances of Google's advertising giving people *questionable* results with at times inappropriate adverts. eBad is a se

You all have been very generous so far, and I hate to ask for more. But...

Marcela has started an affiliate site, for which she needs links. Please contact ME via email or private message me if you can donate links to help her get her site up and running.

Earler today, when visiting www.netscape.com, user's were being presented with a series of javascript dialog boxes that said things like "Fuck", and "hi to all you Diggers out there".

Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/shrikant/198733894/

Microsoft said a 'poisoned' presentation is attached to the virus, that installs keylogging software on a computer. When opened, the virus records everything typed on the infected machine.

Is Google a cult, or is Google a corporation? Full Story The Register continues to use such colorful statements such as 'cult-like ment

Quote: Payment Services not permitted on eBay: AlertPay.com, anypay.com, AuctionChex.com, AuctionPix.com, BillPay.ie, ecount.com, cardserviceinternational.com, CCAvenue, ecount, e-gold, eHotPay.com, ePassporte.com, EuroGiro, FastCash.com, Google Checkout,

I saw this pretty interesting/ scary tool on the local news channel - the SWIPE calculator - which led me down a rabbit hole.

It's by a company called SWIPE which is a pretty obscure little outfit from best I can tell. They are using a bar for data warehousing, but are actually the "good guys" by enlightening people to this questionable practice of data collection.

Tesla just raised $40 million from high-profile investors including Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It plans to start selling its first model next year. It also looks like this car can out do a Ferrari or Porsche.

So we have this domain registered with godaddy.com. We thought why not use one of their hosting plans and got one for 12 months. The site is basicly a discussion forum, everything legal. After a period of 6 months, the site got suspended without any notice or email. So we contacted the godaddy support team, they informed us the site is spamming. We responded if godaddy would please explain their definition of spam as the site is only one big forum. The next response was that we are using an illegal proxy (what is this?) and they demanded 199$ to get our domain and hosting back. OK, you can hold your hosting, but my domain is registered, you can not hold it!

mozDex, the open source search engine has just received a new lease on life.

The project, originally intended to port the Nutch search engine software from Sun's proprietary Java platform to an open source platform has been taken over and is getting a face lift and some renewed vitality.

Quote: I've seen that first hand. The "psychology of linking" did change in a fairly obvious way after nofollow started. Unfortunately, that was a downside that none of saw coming back when we announced our support. I'm not sure any of us expected people to ration their links as if they were somehow in limited supply. But it happened anyway.

Yet another story associating G$ with child porn, this time from the Brazil/Orkut end of things. Google seems to be saying that they don't have to comply with brazilian requests because the info is on US servers.

I saw this article about the DoJ not backing Google's antitrust complaint against Microsoft, and it mentions that the DoJ is the "enema of Microsoft"!