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Intel shows off ultraslim concept laptop at IDF

Can 5 Million E-Mails Just Disappear?How to erase a computer file, for good
Robert Johnson, who used to be the publisher of Newsday, was indicted on Tuesday for possessing child pornography and for attempting to destroy evidence. A pair of incriminating movies were found on Johnson's office computer, even though he had apparently used a program called "Evidence Eliminator" to wipe 12,000 files from its hard drive. Can you ever really erase a computer file?

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Now that new Macs will run Windows beautifully, people are considering Macs who haven't before (I've seen it myself around the office). They may install Windows, but I'm sure that once they play around in the Mac OS for a while, they won't all go back. Being Mac newbies, however, these users may not be aware of the Mac counterparts for some of their favorite Windows apps.
The good folks at Blather have compiled a nice list of popular Windows apps, and their Mac counterparts:
Outlook >Mail and iCal
HomeSite > TextMate
AppRocket > Quicksilver
FlashFXP > Transmit
SecureCRT > Terminal
SQL Manager > Navicat
Tortoise SVN > SVNX
OneNote > OmniOutliner
FastTrack Schedule 9 > OmniPlan
Visio > OmniGraffle
Internet Explorer 7 > Parallels
PHP Encoder > SourceGuardian

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California to Cut Welfare Safety Net for Parents
by Elaine Korry
All Things Considered, April 16, 2007 · California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has threatened to cut the welfare safety net for children whose parents aren't working, saying that the only alternative would force California to face federal penalties. But critics say the approach will not change things.

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Snoop Dogg recently explained the difference between the language used by old, white radio announcers and rappers:

It's a completely different scenario. [Rappers] are not talking about no
collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and
sports. We're talking about hos that's in the 'hood that ain't doing shit,
that's trying to get a nigga for his money. These are two separate things. First
of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black
girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls
that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them muthafuckas say we in the
same league as him.

What Mr. Dogg is arguing here is that it's ok to refer to actual hos as hos in the service of artistic expression but it is not ok to refer to college basketball players as such for the purpose of demeaning people. As we're currently engaged in another go-round on the issue of speech, political correctness, and its potential enforcement, it's not hard to imagine that someday an argument like Snoop Dogg's will be deployed in a court of law. I wonder if anyone will buy it?