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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 09, 2017 32 Comments
Back in 2003, Bill Burr wrote the primer on password development.  His definitive work recommended random characters, letters, numbers, caps, casing, etc. in a mishmosh that the user not only had to remember (or remember where they'd recorded it) but had to, per his '03 recommendation, change each month into another nonsensical string of random characters and letters. Burr now regrets these rules and says that he was wrong about them.

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 09, 2017 22 Comments
Netflix took a major blow on Tuesday when Disney announced it will remove all of its content in 2019 to start its own streaming service. ESPN, which Disney owns, will start a streaming service in 2018. From The Hollywood Reporter:
Details of the Disney streaming service were sketchy Tuesday, with CEO Bob Iger saying that if a movie is Pixar- or Disney-branded, it will probably appear exclusively on the new service — including shows and movies made specifically for the service — but the jury is still out on Marvel and Star Wars films.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 08, 2017 22 Comments
The war on male college students under the mantle of Title IX continues.  A USC student was accused of raping a fellow student in her dorm room, and after being cleared by security video, could still be expelled. CBS News reports:
Security video from outside a local nightclub has cleared a USC student of rape, CBS Los Angeles reports. Armaan Premjee was accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old student in her dorm room but video from the Banditos club near campus tells a different story.

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 07, 2017 22 Comments
Former Vice President Al Gore managed to stay in the limelight with his climate change crusade after he failed to beat former President George W. Bush in 2000. In 2007, his movie An Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar and Gore won an Noble Peace Prize. Gore decided to make a sequel, An Inconvenient Truth: Truth to Power, but it bombed big time this weekend. It finished 15th and only took in $900,000.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 07, 2017 22 Comments
Americans love their pets. In fact, we spend over $60 billion on them annually. Furthermore, many social justice warriors who seemingly despise their fellow humans will often be found protesting on behalf of animals. Progressives who love animals and truly believe in climate change may have trouble fully embracing the assertions of a UCLA professor who says our pets are contributing to global warming.
In a study released Wednesday, a geography professor at UCLA calculated that the meat-based food Americans’ dogs and cats eat – and the waste those pets produce – generate the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on August 01, 2017 25 Comments
JK Rowling found herself in the midst of a Twitter storm after retweeting a partial video that misrepresented President Trump's interaction with a boy in a wheelchair.   Rowling, however, didn't stop at a mere retweet, she went on a six tweet tirade against the president. She's now apologized, not to the President whom she wrongfully accused, but to the boy to whom the president paid special attention and to the boy's family.  She has also deleted the original, misguided tweets.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 30, 2017 22 Comments
I have noticed lately that people are happy about Wonder Woman since she provides young girls with a positive role model. I enjoy that, too, but she has superpowers. I have no problem with young girls looking up to her, but it's unrealistic. Whether we like it or not, kids of both sexes look up to actors and actresses as role models. How about ordinary females in lead roles who overcome adversity without the help of superpowers? One blog I came across pointed out that these superhero females still give females the "short shrift." Females can be badass, strong, and powerful without the superpowers. To me, those are better role models. I've listed six everyday ordinary females who kicked ass and took names without superpowers.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on July 29, 2017 45 Comments
In yet another example of the anti-Trump contingent creating and spreading misleading stories about President Trump, J. K. Rowling has gone on a Twitter tirade about a video that shows Trump supposedly ignoring a child in a wheelchair. What the now-viral video fails to show is that at the beginning of this event, Trump entered the room and as he moved toward the podium, he stopped specifically to speak to and to shake hands with the little boy in question.

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 26, 2017 18 Comments
Coca-Cola stunned the country on Wednesday when the company announced it will stop selling Coke Zero in America and replace it with a new soft drink: Coke Zero Sugar. Coke Zero Sugar "is a reinvention of Coke Zero" said CEO James Quincey. It has a new recipe and design.

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 26, 2017 24 Comments
Trump visited the Boy Scout Jamboree this week, much to the delight of the approximately 40,000 attendees who cheered loudly for him. Some liberals rushed to compare the Boy Scouts to the Hitler Youth, further displaying their utter disconnect with average Americans, or as they would say, the "deplorables." Cristina Silva wrote at Newsweek:

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 24, 2017 22 Comments
Social media erupted on Sunday when a poll showed musician Robert Ritchie, aka Kid Rock, up by four points over incumbent Democratic Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow. Delphi Analytics, whose website just launched this month, released the findings:
Of respondents who stated a preference between Debbie Stabenow and Robert Ritchie, 54% stated they would vote for Ritchie while 46% said they would vote for Debbie Stabenow. These results could indicate that Ritchie is a popular figure in Michigan, Debbie Stabenow is unpopular, or some combination of concurrent trends. The relatively large, 44%, number of undecided respondents may be due to the early stages of the campaign.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 23, 2017 20 Comments
I love reading about regional cultural variances. Typically these types of reports include the use of y'all vs. you all, or soda vs. pop. Dating app Hater matches date-seekers using a combination of location, age, and mutual hates.
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