One-cent and 2-cent stamps proved so popular Monday the downtown post office in Great Falls briefly ran out of the stamps.

Monday was the first work day a postal rate hike took effect.

Damnit. I don't understand why they can't just accept the 37 cent stamps until people run out of them. Its not as if the Post Office doesn't control how many stamps there are...

Post office runs out of 2 cent stamps

While some storage-product companies already support one sort of encryption or another, having standard implementations could make it easier for customers to safeguard data across heterogeneous storage environments, standards supporters say.

The proposed standards define three encryption algorithms and a method of key management designed to ensure the compatibility and interoperability of different storage gear. For encryption on disk, the specification proposes using the new Liskov, Rivest, Wagner-Advanced Encryption Standard (LRW-AES) cryptographic algorithm. For tape encryption, it proposes using the National Institutes of Standards and Technologies' (NIST) AES Galois/Counter Mode (AES-GCM) and AES Counter with CBC-MAC Mode (AES-CCM) standards.

Galois/Counter Mode? BTW this article's comments about CBC are wrong. You cannot do arbirary data mangling in CBC. He is thinking of ECB. The problem with CBC is its slow...

Standards on the way for encrypting data on tape, disk

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

Thats annoying.

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail | Perspectives | CNET News.com

David E. Rosenbaum, a longtime editor and reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times, died yesterday after being beaten and robbed Friday night near his home in upper Northwest Washington.

Was this a hit?

N.Y. Times Editor-Reporter Dies After Attack in NW

Just five years ago, white collar outsourcing was confined to data processing and call centers; today, courtesy of IT-enabled connectivity, it has moved to the upper echelons of the knowledge-worker hierarchy. The Internet is living up to its reputation of being the most disruptive technology in the history of the world.

The implications of these developments are profound. Long lacking in income support, the spending-addicted American consumer has turned to equity extraction from asset holdings in order to support the habit...

Globalization imposes a new paradigm of competitive survival on the high-cost developed countries of the world. Americs.. is... feeling the heat... Companies in high-wage economies see little choice other than to rewrite social contracts as the means for competitive survival. For the United States, it’s the end of labor as we once knew it.

Morgan Stanley - A Ray of Sunshine from Steve Roach... (Right....)

A mother in New York is suing an Applebee's restaurant after her 5-year-old son was allegedly served a Long Island Iced Tea instead of apple juice.

5-Year-Old Served Long Island Iced Tea

WASHINGTON - In the 50 years that Grant Goodman has known and corresponded with a colleague in the Philippines he never had any reason to suspect that their friendship was anything but spectacularly ordinary. But now he believes that the relationship has somehow sparked the interest of the Department of Homeland Security and led the agency to place him under surveillance.Last month Goodman, an 81-year-old retired University of Kansas history professor, received a letter from his friend in the Philippines that had been opened and resealed with a strip of dark green tape bearing the words “by Border Protection” and carrying the official Homeland Security seal.

As Globalization proceeds and more of our regular daily interactions are with foreign parties what good do civil liberties do us if they don't apply? If the fbi was randomly reading mail it would be a constitutional crisis, but if its dhs is all good.... We are going to have to fundamentaly rethink how this works....

Homeland Security opening private mail - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com

The 38 million subscribers to MySpace, which News Corp bought for $629m (355m) last July, discovered that when they wrote to each other about rival video-swapping site YouTube, the words were automatically deleted, and attempts to download video images from YouTube led to blank screens.

MySpace gets into the competitive censorship game and quickly learns that they very much do not have control of the thing they just bought.

Myspace stumbles

1) The current rather mild U.S. recovery has been driven by asset appreciation/consumption and not employment or capex growth.
2) Future growth is dependent on additional asset appreciation in real estate and stocks if Asia continues to absorb much of our investment and many of our jobs.
3) Recent asset appreciation has been set ablaze by several fiscal/monetary pumps displayed on page 2 with 5-year real rates being the central driver/gasoline can.
4) Tax cuts are a thing of the past and 5-year TIPS yields can theoretically decline only 60 basis points or so more.
5) The reason why intermediate/long TIPS have an interest rate floor is that if we approach potential deflation, investors risk losing money on a government guaranteed investment. The same concept applies to homes, stocks, and other inflation-adjusting assets without government guarantees.
6) The Fed may soon be out of fuel, despite hints of Bernanke-style helicopter money. Stocks and houses are already at low yields and high prices reflective of European economies nearing Japan-style liquidity traps.

PIMCO Bonds - IO July 2005 - Fire!

Cell Phone Call Record $110

Give us the cell phone number and we will send you the calls made from the cell phone number.

Cell Phone Number Research