10 most common Internet passwords — or are they?
How did the dumb guy handle Internet security? He picked one of the 10 most common online passwords, a list reported in the upcoming, May 8 issue of PC Magazine: 1. password 2. 123456 3. qwerty 4. abc123 5. letmein 6. monkey 7. myspace1 8. password1 9. blink182 10. (your first name) Looking back at PC s source material, I m seeing that this Americanized version of a British list doesn t seem to derive from any sort of survey data, although who in their right mind would tell a poll-taker their passwords, right? Assuming that the true Top Ten is unknowable, let s…
Physician-Owned Hospitals Skim Patients With Better Insurance
Physicians who self-refer patients to their own specialty hospitals are reaping financial benefits by “cherry-picking” less severe patients and “cream-skimming& patients with better insurance, a Georgetown University economist said Wednesday at a Wichita health care seminar. Order a medicare Replacement Card Online GM UAW Reach Tentative health Care Agreement General Motors and the United Auto Workers […]
Virginia Tech shootings leave faint traces on Internet
Yes, the Internet, as an instant information medium, played a central role in the handling of the Virginia Tech University shootings today — by students, by the school, by the news media. But it is also a place of frustration at a moment like this. You want to know more about this tragedy, to try to begin to understand. But what seems to be out there now, as the gunman and 32 others are reportedly dead, are endless loops of, essentially, the same scant information. Yet you keep searching because on the Web, you feel like the next corner, the…
A sampling of new and interesting music sites
- LaLa (www.lala.com): Trade used CDs, buy discount new CDs, register for music, listen to Internet radio. - MP3 blogs: These blogs post listenable and downloadable music, usually with commentary. Local ones include Songs: Illinois, Swedesplease and Can You See the Sunset From the Southside? A big national player is Stereogum. - Hype Machine (hypem.com): An MP3 blog aggregator, collecting new posts on MP3 blogs and making their content searchable. Another is Elbo (elbo.ws). - eMusic (emusic.com): An online music store, like iTunes, but charging a monthly rate and specializing in independent music. - Pandora (pandora.com): The site’s Music Genome…
COACHELLA FESTIVAL REVIEW
Reunions were the major theme of the three-day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which wrapped up its ninth year Sunday as one of the world’s premiere music gatherings.
High Five: Hinrich v. NBA, Crow v. Rove and CTA v. logic
Fast takes on five items in the news, fresh every weekday: 1 The CTA is spending $25 million to outfit buses with tracking devices that will let customers with Internet access know exactly where the next bus is. Customers without Internet access are invited to rely upon the same ache in their elbow that tells them when it’s about to rain. 2 An unemployed Massachussetts man who put his cell number up on YouTube gets 5,000 phone calls or text messages over the weekend. NBC immediately signs him for a new reality show, American Idle. 3 Sheryl Crow and Karl…
High Five: Iggy’s no Sanjaya, and Richard Gere is no Raj Kapoor
Fast takes on five items in the news, fresh every weekday: 1 Kids can lead their families down the path to eco-friendliness, this story says, by serving as pollution police. Kids can also be sent away to military academy. 2 It’s election Tuesday or, as we know it in Chicago, Day of the Voting Dead. 3 In an op-ed piece, William Daley urges this about politics: Let’s clean it up, take it seriously and give it the level of respect it deserves. No word on whether Daley shared the piece before publication with brother and close ally Mayor Richard Daley….
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