The comprehensive gauge of labor underutilization, known as the “U-6″ for its data classification by the Labor Department, accounts for people who have stopped looking for work or who can’t find full-time jobs. Its continuing divergence from the official rate (the “U-3″ unemployment measure) indicates the job market has a long way to go before growth in the economy translates into relief for workers.
- Drew Gilbertson
ALUMINUM FOIL ALERT -- FBI's massive surveillance system, DCSNet, can be used to instantly wiretap almost any communications device in the U.S. — wireless or tethered. -- http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/blog...
In other words, you and I have no privacy. The government can listen in on any call made in the continental U.S. (This is all well and good if you trust every government employee. But what if an attorney general running for higher office will do anything to finger a high-profile target? Or what if a prosecutor has a personal grudge he'd like to fulfill? It seems to me it would be easy for this power to fall into the wrong hands.)
- Drew Gilbertson
We are governed at all levels by America's luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they're not optimists—they're unimaginative. They don't have faith, they've just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don't mind it when people become disheartened. They don't even notice.
- Drew Gilbertson
Connectify lets a Windows 7 laptop "tether" other wireless devices to a single Internet connection by effectively turning that PC into a software-based wireless router -- http://connectify.me/
- Drew Gilbertson
Worst. Bill. Ever. The Pelosi health bill has it all: Epic new spending and taxes, pricier insurance, rationed care, dishonest accounting -- http://online.wsj.com/article...
"thanks to the mumbling of a sleep-deprived East German official, some overzealous Western reporting and the willingness of East Germans to risk a trip to the wall"
- Drew Gilbertson
Only a socialist can understand this contradiction -- "enlightened public subsidies to provide a competitive and independent digital news media." -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...