Month January 2011

Gov. Brown’s California budget just more of the same

The budget proposes to offload state responsibilities like public safety and health services onto local governments, funding them for five years with money raised if voters approve the extension of tax hikes in June. This would include eliminating the California…

Bad craziness with passwords

Continuing on with the password discussion from the last post… I use the highly reliable open source Password Safe to store passwords. It encrypts the passwords securely and the entire program installs into a folder with no updating of the…

Three word passwords are highly secure

The always informative Baekdal explains how a password of three words (“peanut butter jelly”) is both highly secure and easy to remember. You can make the password impregnable by using special characters between the words and capitalizing (“peanut-Butter/jelly”.) If you…

Class in the US and world

(Promoted from the comments. This is from DJ, who has lived in third world countries for extended periods of time) If we truly looked at the class structure of the economy, we would find that the vast majority of Americans…