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POPSThe Best-Ever Freeware Utilities All the utilities in this list have featured in past issues of my free monthly newsletter "Support Alert" More freebies are published in each new issue. If you are interested in great utilities and freeware you really should consider subscribing. It's free. Go to original site for additional freeware: www.techsupportalert.com This page is updated regularly - most recent: 6 Feb, 2007
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POPS13 Doctors Demand Inquest Into Dr David Kelly's Death Mr Halpin said that he lost more than 6,000 pieces of correspondence - many relating to Dr Kelly - during his investigation, explaining that the mystery began when the 'firewall' on his computer, which all similar machines are fitted with as a security measure, became inactive without warning. His emails started disappearing as though they were being sifted remotely. 'I believe this will have been done by a state-sponsored agency and not by an amateur acting singly,' he said. Dr Kelly's death may have been linked to the secret world of germ warfare research. Until his death Dr Kelly was privy to some of the state's most sensitive information and worked closely with the intelligence services of all the major industrialised countries.
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POPSChina: At Least 140 Dead in Xinjiang Province Clashes + Leaked Twitter Photos The communist authorities who built the so-called Great Firewall of China raced to stamp out video, images and words posted by internet users about the unrest in Xinjiang, which left at least 140 people dead. Twitter and YouTube appeared to be blocked in China late on Monday afternoon, while leading Chinese search engines would not give results for 'Urumqi', the city in Xinjiang where the riots occurred.
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POPSMost Downloaded Freewares My Favorites: 15. ZoneAlarm Free is a free firewall. 18. KeyTweak Description: An easy to use utility that lets you redefine/remap your keyboard input signals in Windows NT/2000/XP. So, if you don't have a keyboard that includes special function keys, you can remap F12 as a mute button, for example. This version features a new teach mode that lets you press two buttons on your keyboard to remap them. This version adds the ability to save and restore remappings.
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POPSWhat Olympics leave behind: Police State 2.0 US companies, formerly forbidden from selling police tech to China, equipped 660 Chinese cities with spycam networks, under the guise of Olympics security. They'll find their real use after the Games move on.
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POPSPrivate internet access-How to Bypass firewall restrictions Employer and school networks, often have restrictions, and firewalls, which prevent access to certain sites, or protocols, simply because they're popular.eg(Myspace). Most traffic is monitored, and while the application is subject to particular situations, the tips can provide a means of private unmonitored access, with a few qualifications, like keylogging programs, after all the work has been done. The page continues with the links to further steps, and can also provide a greater understanding of firewalls, and their weak spots.
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POPSSeeing Through The Lies: The Worst Bill Ever It "pays for" about six years of program with a decade of revenue, with the heaviest costs concentrated in the second five years. The House also pretends Medicare payments to doctors will be cut by 21.5% next year and deeper after that, "saving" about $250 billion. ObamaCare will be lucky to cost under $2 trillion over 10 years; it will grow more after that. • Expanding Medicaid, gutting private Medicare. All this is particularly reckless given the unfunded liabilities of Medicare"now north of $37 trillion over 75 years. Mrs. Pelosi wants to steal $426 billion from future Medicare spending to "pay for" universal coverage. While Medicare's price controls on doctors and hospitals are certain to be tightened, the only cut that is a sure thing in practice is gutting Medicare Advantage to the tune of $170 billion. Democrats loathe this program because it gives one of out five seniors private insurance options.
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POPSwho's censoring the news in the UAE? more at source-and links to video etc- this is who bush sleeps with- but what the heck? why would americans flinch at a little torture from their business partners and buddies?- republicans re-wrote the laws of torture to suit their purposes-no room for conscience when there is a dollar or two to be made
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POPSObama Spreads Panic as he Bankrupts the Country I seem to remember one of bin Laden's diatribes, describing how conflict with muslims would bankrupt the West. How insidiously clever to put in place an al Qaeda trojan horse whose mission it is to spread fear and panic and bankrupt the Top Crusader?
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POPSSearching the net? You might want this... McAfee Site advisor is a free download toolbar that checks the website urls you type against its updated database. It is a fairly simple way for those lacking in firewall, security and prevention skills to help protect thier computer. The Coolest feature is that it integrates with Google searches, and lists its own approval rating (safe, bad, unknown) next to each search entry.
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POPSRace Chasm: Where race matters in politics Click to see the whole graph! Excellent demographic analysis traces Obama wins in states that are mostly white and states that are mostly black. But in the middle - the "race chasm" are the states that are 6 to 17% black, with a long history of racial tension, but not enough black votes to overcome subtle campaigning aimed at racial fear and anger (eg, Ferraro's tweaking of the affirmative action animus, Bill's likening to Jesse Jackson, Hillary's spotlight on Jeremiah Wright. The "firewall" ? Attempting to build on anti-black resentment in states that have histories of racial tension but not enough black votes to overcome it. You don't have to look far to see how effective these strategies have been at raising the fear and anger of working-class white people. Read the whole piece for many more details, and click to see the entire graph.
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POPS Why Obama's Spreading Panic And Fear 
Only by keeping us in a state of panic can he induce us to vote for trillion-dollar deficits and spending packages that send our national debt soaring. And then there is the matter of blame. The deeper the mess goes — and the further down his rhetoric drives it — the more imperative it becomes to lay off the blame on Bush. But the jig will be up soon. The crash of the stock market in the days since he took power (indeed, from the moment he won the election) can increasingly be attributed to his own failure to lead us in the right direction, his failed policies in addressing the recession and his own spreading of panic and fear. The market collapse makes it evident that it is Obama who is the problem, where he should, instead, be the solution. Instead of being a firewall, reassuring Main Street even as Wall Street crashed, he has become a conduit of panic, spreading the mood of desperation from the stock exchange floor to kitchen tables across the world.
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POPSHow Does Spyware, Malware or Crapware Get on My Computer? Malware, spyware, and other junk software makes it onto your computer for a number of reasons: * You installed something you really shouldn’t have, from an untrustworthy source. Often these include screensavers, toolbars, or torrents that you didn’t scan for viruses. * You didn’t pay attention when installing a “reputable” application that bundles “optional” crapware. * You’ve already managed to get yourself infected, and the malware installs even more malware. * You aren’t using a quality Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware application. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More info at the source. Excellent article if you are interested in this kind of thing.
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POPSTime to put "Wealth On Trial" again? The Pecora hearings resulted in 12,000 pages of transcripts that are still a primary source for historians of the Great Crash, and important New Deal legislation that for the first time regulated the high-handed, free-wheeling banking industry and protected the public from its excesses -- including the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (which established the Securities and Exchange Commission -- Pecora was one of its first commissioners) and the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933, which erected a firewall between commercial and investment banking -- a wall torn down during the Clinton administration, leading to much of our trouble today.
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