Your wireless router could be murdering your houseplants

Are you slowly killing your houseplants? Probably! But there might be a reason (other than neglect) why they’re all yellow and wilty: your Wi-Fi router. An experiment by a handful of high school students in Denmark has sparked some serious international interest in the scientific community. Five ninth-grade girls at Hjallerup School in North Jutland, Denmark, noticed they… Read More »

Do Cookies Get More Dangerous When Used By the NSA?

Amy sent us an email — and this is what she said: http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/421-national-security/20895-nsa-uses-google-cookies-to-pinpoint-targets-for-hacking So TC….would you like to reconsider your position on how harmless cookies are now? Just sayin…..(From Amy) My response is below – if you’re not familiar with our position on cookies, please read this article. Hi Amy, This does not change my opinion about cookies… Read More »

A real quick startup tip

This tip is for Windows 7 and Windows 8 / 8.1 If you want a quick way to see all the programs starting with Windows, do this: 1. Press and hold down the Windows Key and press the R key 2. In the Run (Open) dialog, type WMIC and press Enter 3. In the command dialog you should… Read More »

China’s moon rover takes its first photo

First, China takes over the world economy, now it looks like they’re going to take over the moon. Honest! Many conspiracy theorists will tell you the U. S. never landed on the moon in 1969 — it was all just a movie set. I wonder what they’ll make of these Chinese pictures from the moon. You’d think since… Read More »

What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots?

This comes to us via Forbes…a publication, we as poor folks. don’t normally read. But we found this article interesting and somewhat unsettling. What do you think? What The Heck Will Google Do With These Scary Military Robots? Let’s see, we have a company that already knows everything about us, has possibly the world’s largest computer network, has… Read More »

We’re back to the passwords again

How long do you think it would take to crack a password like barb49? Offline Fast Attack Scenario: (Assuming one hundred billion guesses per second) 0.000622 seconds. Massive Cracking Array Scenario:(Assuming one hundred trillion guesses per second) 0.000000622 seconds; Now let’s change that barb49 password to a strong password, let’s say a 15 character password generated by Last… Read More »