A U.S. Army staff sergeant was charged with murdering his two commanders last week at a base outside Baghdad.

The “fragging” incident occurred near Tikrit. Fragging is a term used to refer to soldiers killing their superiors.

From Traveling Soldier

“Fragging” – the GI term for using violence against their officers for their behavior – was extremely widespread in Vietnam. The army still cannot account for how 1,400 officers and non-commissioned officers died. This number, combined with the official fragging statistics, suggests that 20 to 25 percent of all officers killed in the war were killed by their men, not “the enemy.”

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Highly recognized former chief economist in Labor Department now doubts official 9/11 story, claiming suspicious facts and evidence cover-up indicate government foul play and possible criminal implications.

This article lays out clearly all the evidence that the collapse of the buildings on 9/11 was in part due to controlled demolition. They may have a point. But, so what? What does this show? That the attackers were even better organized than previously thought or that the Bushies are covering something up? They probably are, but those buildings did go down and I’m unclear of what the 9/11 doubters are trying to say.

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Offshoring goes up the financial foodchain

The tasks being remotely processed are now going up the value chain. You no longer have to imagine a company whose finance team in the United States is made up of only the controller, treasurer, and CFO, with their staff in India. This is already happening.

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miniSync
Charge and sync with one small device with retractable cords.

VersaCharger
Small portable charger, works into wall, car, and airplane.

I got both for my iRiver 320 mp3 player. They are tiny, well-engineered, and save carrying bulky cords and chargers.

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From Bruce Schneier, respected computer security expert

Password Safe is a free Windows password-storage utility. These days, anyone who is on the Web regularly needs too many passwords, and it’s impossible to remember them all. I have long advocated writing them all down on a piece of paper and putting it in your wallet.

I designed Password Safe as another solution. It’s a small program that encrypts all of your passwords using one passphrase. The program is easy to use, and isn’t bogged down by lots of unnecessary features. Security through simplicity.

Password Safe 2.10 is now available.

Password Safe is easy to use, powerful, and if you use a solid passpharase (which is what encrypts the password database), then your passwords are secure. Just click on an entry to copy the password to the clipboard.

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Anti-BB gun project deemed too dangerous

Two eighth-graders who spent months working on a science project to prove how dangerous BB guns can be were disqualified from the state middle school science fair. The reason for the dismissal: BB guns are too dangerous.

As a kid, I played with bb guns, rode my bicycle at breakneck speeds down steep hills with no helmet, and set off firecrackers, including cherry bombs, whenever I could. I do not recall anyone ever getting hurt, except for the odd scraped knee or two.

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