The Dangers of Blogging
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
I’ve read about people losing jobs or job offers because of stuff they posted on the internet, sometimes years earlier when they were in college. There are also the criminals who got caught after uploading videos of their crimes. But this one takes the cake. The man in question lost an expensive lawsuit because of his online blogging. As a general measure, always be careful what you say online—it can come back to haunt you.
Link: http://www.boston.com/…
(via Kim Komando)
The linked article is a somewhat lengthy history of the politics behind the building of the Pentagon, including how it got its shape.
Some schools in the UK are dropping the Holocaust from their curricula because they fear the lessons may offend Muslim students. Additionally, they’ve removed the crusades because those lessons contradict what is taught in the Islamic mosques.
A man named Didier Stevens put up an advertisement on Google for 6 months and got an amazing 409 clicks. Now most people wouldn’t consider 409 clicks out of 260,000 page views to be significant, but the ad said, “Is your PC virus-free? Get it infected here!”
This female hitchhiker stole a car from a Good Samaritan, only to quickly lose control of the vehicle and crash it into some trees. Not wearing a seat belt (that being something low on the carjacker priority list) she was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene. Guess this one qualifies for a 
Researchers were recently able to factor a specially formed (but hard to factor) 1039-bit number in a mere 11 months. It shouldn’t be too long before those 1024-bit encryption keys can be broken in a realistic amount of time. 
Regular Chad’s News readers know that I tend to go a bit overboard when it comes to Star Wars (did I mention that I own over 80 Star Wars books?), but I think this one is interesting enough to share. ABC News has a slide show of 12 Star Wars actors, giving modern-day pictures and describing what they’ve been up to since the original trilogy ended.
The official mileage estimates for hybrid vehicles, long known to be too high, have been reduced. The Toyota Prius, for example, had its city mileage drop from 60 to 48 MPG.
According to this article there are plans for an additional three Terminator movies, although they won’t include Arnold Schwarzenegger.
If you’ve never heard of Microsoft’s PowerToys for Windows XP, head over to microsoft.com and check them out. TweakUI is an essential part of every computer system I use.
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