I cannot believe that the NY/NJ Port Authority is not using a “more proprietary” radio frequency. Listening to the radio transmissions, it seems that they are on the same frequency as other civilian businesses using UHF radios. Whoever decided on using those “store bought” (well it has to be from a specialized 2-way radio dealer) radios is kind of a joke.

Literally, terrorists can simply get onto that frequency by purchasing one of those easily obtainable radios and keep it keyed up. The Port Authority police would basically have no 2-way radio service. Unlike the Fox 5 News report, it is not a “concern” it is a disaster waiting to happen.

Just imagine, if the TV station transmitters were easily available for purchase by civilians. All that a terrorist needs to do is have one of these transmitters on and send a blank signal (well, more exactly “radio noise”) and effectively it would kill the true signal and nobody would be able to watch a particular TV channel (over-the-air, that is). Now imagine that happening with the cell tower frequencies. Hmmm…. yeah, that is why those frequencies are restricted from civilians.

I think Homeland Security and the NYC Anti-Terrorism Task Force (maybe even the mayor and governors of both states) needs to force the Port Authority to resolve this issue ASAP. It is an easy fix. Just replace the radios and the repeaters. Keeping them UHF radios, would not require them to replace antennas (which can be more difficult). It really is a no-brainer, it is only some money. President Obama seems to be printing them out of the Treasury, so what is another truck load? At least these would actually save lives, unlike those full body scanners which can cause some unknown DNS damage (but that is another post).

So beware while driving through the NY/NJ tunnels and bridges. This issue seems to affect all of them.

Jessica Biel most ‘dangerous’ celeb in cyberspace. Followed by Beyoncé, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Brady, and Jessica Simpson to round out the top 5.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10317029-83.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Suggestion: use a safer browser like Mozilla Firefox 3.5.

Source: http://www.cnbc.com/id/32297641/

Source: http://america.esolar.com/
 

Source: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/06/down-time-rescheduled.html
 

Source: https://www.xpressreg.net/register/phot109/hallonly/promostart.asp

NOTE: I am not affiliated in any way with this Expo. I am just planning to attend it.
 

You should give it a try. It may be interesting to see how branding affects perceived search engine results.

NOTE: the programmer is working for Microsoft, but claims this side project has nothing to do with Microsoft. Hmmm… I wonder why bing.com is one of the search engines it queries. The other two being Google and Yahoo.
 

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This couple should have just retired and gave up spying … at their age, they should enjoy what life they have left. Now they have none.
 

It has many PDFs, ranging from his 2010 Budget Proposal to his Small Business Emergency Rescue Plan. Go see for yourself (link).

For example, this Post is highlighted in “shade”, so I added the tag “highlight-shade” to this Post and added the following line to my styles.css:

NOTE: the “tag” prefix to the stylesheet entry.

I guess you can have fun with tags and various stylesheet effects now.
 

It is not only about Asian names. What about Jewish names? Greek names? German names? French names? Norwegian names? Dutch names? Latin names? Spanish names? African names? Middle-Eastern names?

Ms. Betty Brown, why don’t you change your name to something we all (including all foreign immigrants) can pronounce easily? Like “Jane Doe”.

Heck, why don’t we all be named “John Doe” and “Jane Doe”. We don’t have to worry about identity theft then. We will all share each others credit history and if our Command-in-Chief has it, share the money we work so hard to save. We should all be the same. Everyone can go by the same names, does the same job (lazily doing nothing, enjoying the air we breath), getting the same pay and appreciating the fact that the government can make all the decisions for us (oh wait, they are going to be the same “John Doe” and “Jane Doe”, getting the same pay, doing the same things, lazily enjoying the air). Hmm… that is one America I cannot imagine living in. It would be so un-American! So un-capitalistic. Shall I say it? So socialistic.

Just because something is different for you to comprehend, you want them to change to match your personal beliefs and tastes. That would make life very boring, in my opinion. Where would the ingenuity be? No more uniqueness?

Ms. Brown, your comment is so anti-American. If you don’t like being American and the American “melting pot”, please leave the country.

The diversity of America is what makes America unique. It is what makes America strong. Freedom to have different ideas and be creative, coming up with different ways to make tomorrow a better day for our children.

It would be a very sad day when we lose the American uniqueness.

By the way, Ms. Brown, what would you suggest our President, Barack Obama, change his name to? How about “Bob Brown”? Would that make it easier for you? After all, it is about you pronouncing it, right?

Folks, feel free to voice you opinion to Ms. Betty Brown, here is her contact info:
Email: betty.brown@house.state.tx.us
Phone: (512)463-0458   Fax: (512)463-2040

With WordPress v2.7, you can now mark a post as “Sticky”, which puts it at the top of the page. If you are using a WordPress 2.7 compatible theme, then it should work right out of the box. However, for older themes, you need to make a few simple modifications to your theme template and stylesheet.

In your template index.php file,

Add this to your template styles.css file:

Now any posts that is checked as “Stick this post to the front page” will be highlighted and moved to the top of the front page.

Well some simple editing of the plugins’ code can make it look like this:

First … we modify the CSS stylesheet for the Sociable plugin. Change the first line in …/wp-content/plugins/sociable/sociable.css

Next … we modify the code of the AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget plugin and the ShareThis plugin; changing DIV and P tags to a corresponding SPAN tag.

To make it easier for you here are their respective Unix patch files:
addthis_social_widget.php.patch and sharethis.php.patch.

NOTE: whenever you update these plugins, you must modify the code again (unless the authors alter their code).

Enjoy!