5 years ago, before I was concerned about on-line privacy issues, I registered a domain name for my own home use (let's call it "abcd.com", as an example) and gave the registrar my real contact info, including my home address as the "business address". My registration info and whois database info is the only place that my home address was ever published in conjunction with that domain name.
Even though I didn't renew the domain name and let it lapse 3 years ago, I still, to this day, get the occasional snail-mail junk mail from credit card companies addressed to me, president of abcd.com, at my home address, offering my apparent dot-com company a business credit card. I've moved twice since then, and the credit card offers for abcd.com keep following me (I guess that's better than the offers going to some stranger who lives in my old apartment building).
I'm sure global warming would go away if only those brave Republican scientists could find a faster way to clean up all the toxic fossil-fuel deposits polluting the subterranian portions of the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge and other national parks.
The way they put those 4 stats together in the summary is slightly confusing, because they are switching back and forth talking about percentages of all Americans versus percentages of only the non-Internet users.
Say there's a group of 100 people. 42 of them don't use the internet. Of those 42 people, approx. 8 people (20% of 42) are net-evaders, and approx. 7 people (17% of 42) are net-dropouts. But the last stat refers to all Americans again: 24 people (24% of 100) are truly offline. So 24+7+8 = 39 people, plus 3 other people (who are offline for some other reason) adds up to 42.
The Washington Post has an article today looking at military technology in use in the current war in Iraq to try to figure out which military toys of today will become the next big civilian toys of tomorrow... WWII gave us duct tape; the 1991 Gulf War gave us GPS and Humvees; what's next? This synthetic vision technology is something the Post reporter didn't talk about, but maybe should have.
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I was actually shocked this week when Fox managed to show all of it's Sunday night programming despite the President's address.
If only my TiVo were smart enough to handle this... now I must wait for the repeat on Cartoon Network.
That was Madeleine L'Engle. Yet another decent book that was turned into a lousy made-for-TV movie.
Or the Council of Learned Citizens.
Even though I didn't renew the domain name and let it lapse 3 years ago, I still, to this day, get the occasional snail-mail junk mail from credit card companies addressed to me, president of abcd.com, at my home address, offering my apparent dot-com company a business credit card. I've moved twice since then, and the credit card offers for abcd.com keep following me (I guess that's better than the offers going to some stranger who lives in my old apartment building).
I'm sure global warming would go away if only those brave Republican scientists could find a faster way to clean up all the toxic fossil-fuel deposits polluting the subterranian portions of the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge and other national parks.
He could add a little gun or some sort of sensor off the side of the C-wing to make a ç-wing variant. :)
Say there's a group of 100 people. 42 of them don't use the internet. Of those 42 people, approx. 8 people (20% of 42) are net-evaders, and approx. 7 people (17% of 42) are net-dropouts. But the last stat refers to all Americans again: 24 people (24% of 100) are truly offline. So 24+7+8 = 39 people, plus 3 other people (who are offline for some other reason) adds up to 42.
The Washington Post has an article today looking at military technology in use in the current war in Iraq to try to figure out which military toys of today will become the next big civilian toys of tomorrow... WWII gave us duct tape; the 1991 Gulf War gave us GPS and Humvees; what's next? This synthetic vision technology is something the Post reporter didn't talk about, but maybe should have.
There was also an interesting article about this in the Washington Post's TechNews section yesterday.
Shhhh... you're giving away the secret plans for TiVo series 4: the ability to save text files!