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Internet security has become a huge issue in the past couple of years. The recent Sony network hack has caused debates among many network security companies. Internet users are beginning to question the level of security for major sites, wondering if their personal information is truly safe. If you want to avoid being hacked, there are steps you can take towards protecting your information. Consider these tips....
1. Use A Strong Password
A strong password will prevent hackers from gaining access to your account information. Strong passwords usually contain 15 characters, a mix of numbers and symbols, and it must be a name or phrase that is not common. Never use your social security number, birth date, or names of friends and family.
If you have trouble creating your own strong password, you can use a strong password generator to create a strong password for you.
2. Never Select "Remember This Password"
This tip is more for Microsoft XP users. (Read More....)
When a debtor simply doesn't have the means to pay all that they owe, lenders typically agree to accept part of the amount owed. While governments have long used a similar approach to managing monetary economics, states have historically lacked the freedom to use logic in their efforts to collect overdue child support. In fact, many states spend much more money hunting down, prosecuting and even incarcerating parents who owe back support than they could hope to collect from them. Now, a study shows that a pilot program in Wisconsin that offered parents for some of their outstanding debt were more likely to make payments on their current and past-due child support.
Non-custodial parents owe over $100 billion in back support to families and states. According to Brett Burkhart, one of the researchers who studied the pilot program for the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty Families, most of that money would be considered uncollectible by a private lender. The bulk of it is owed by (Read More....)
Although many areas have experienced financial difficulties over the past few years, the entire world has turned its eyes upon Greece’s current economic struggle. Massive debt has crippled the Mediterranean nation, which is experiencing a devastating recession.
After two long years of financial hardship made worse by austerity measures imposed from above by the Greek government, Greek citizens have expressed their discontent by staging at least 1,580 protests this year alone and voting in an economist, Lucas Papademos, to lead the country.
Papademos, who ran on a platform that included a promise to exorcise Greece’s economic demons through a program of tax increases and spending cuts, makes no bones about the difficult road ahead. "The exit from the crisis won't be easy," said Papademos during a parliamentary address. "The budget has difficult and ambitious goals."
Greece has recently pinned its hopes on a $170 billion bailout from the European Union (EU). Negotiations have been brutal, however, with many observers wondering how the struggling nation will (Read More....)
 A recent study by the University of Colorado Denver shows that job-seekers who look for new jobs using the Internet spend 25 percent less time on average between jobs than those who restrict themselves to more traditional job-search methods. However, the researchers noted that searching for jobs online does not garner higher-paying positions for searchers.
Researchers gathered information by asking job-seekers to complete surveys that asked questions about the methods they were using to look for work. These findings are at odds with the results of a 2004 study that found that individuals who used the Internet as part of their job search were actually unemployed longer than those who looked for work the old-fashioned way. This may be due to changes in the Internet and the way it is used, rather than to flaws in either study, however.
"In 2004 the researchers came up with two scenarios for their findings: The Internet was not an effective tool or that people who looked on-line for jobs were not as qualified," according to Hani Mansour, Ph.D., (Read More....)
 Everyone should have a survival kit in case of emergencies. It does not matter where you live; disaster can strike anytime, anywhere. While there are many "essential" items you can have in your kit, there is really only a need for eight items. Here they are and why they are important.
1. Water
You probably figured that this item would be the first on the list. Yes, water is very important. You should have at least a dozen fresh water jugs. A gallon of water is inexpensive at any grocery store. Some people purify their own water by boiling tap water. It does not matter how you attain fresh water, only that you have it in case of an emergency.
2. Wood Stove
Emergencies usually mean no electricity. Therefore, you should have wood stove for cooking during these times. Obviously, wood stoves require no electricity, making it ideal for a survival kit. Alternatively, many people use other types of non-electric cookers, such as BBQ smokers and charcoal grills. All of these are great for a survival kit.
3. Storable (Read More....)
 A new study has revealed that happiness is an effective crime deterrent for adolescents. The report was co-authored by University of California - Davis sociology professor Bill McCarthy and UC Davis post-doctoral research Teresa Casey. In the report, "Get Happy! Positive Emotion, Depression and Juvenile Crime," the researchers found that adolescents who expressed happiness and well-being were significantly less likely to commit crimes and use illegal drugs.
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health funded the study, the largest of its kind, to conduct a survey of 15,000 seventh-to-ninth grade students, from 1995 to 1996. Typically, much data about crime is found using an e-discovery tool, but in this case the survey asked the students to tell if they had committed non-violent crime, of which 29 percent indicated that they had at least once. 18 percent had used illegal drugs at least once.
The researchers then looked for correlations between the level of happiness the students expressed and their involvement in crimes and drug usage. They found that happier students (Read More....)
 A group of researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed an algorithm for tracking criminals based on the “digital trace” they leave behind in real time. Prof. Irad Ben-Gal, Dr. Eugene Kagan and Ph.D. student Aviv Gruber have come up with a way to use the digital traces that people leave behind as they move and interact with technology to catch criminals and strengthen homeland security.
The technique uses data from communication files along with the general data about the criminals to discern a pattern of movement and criminal activity. By aggregating information from emails, phone calls, and other data, the algorithm analyzes the patterns and variables and comes up with reasonable conclusions about possible locations of suspects and predictions about future movement.
The tracking system outputs a probability map that highlights zones where the suspects, criminals, terrorists, or (Read More....)
 Veterans of the Navy, Coast Guard and Fleet Marines (often referred to as the Blue Water Navy) who served in Vietnam in the offshore waters need your help and the help of everyone in your organizations. Veterans from this group who are currently disabled by diseases the VA links to the dioxin contained in Agent Orange are denied any health care and lost wage compensation. Ironically, any service member who can prove their boots touch the soil of mainland Vietnam automatically receives those benefits under a “presumption of exposure” rule. This rule allows those boots-on-ground veterans to claim their benefits without the need to prove any exposure to Agent Orange, the worst of the dioxin-based herbicides.
So, where’s the problem?
Between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed 21,000,000 gallons of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand. The program’s goal was to defoliate forested and rural land, depriving the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army of places to hide. Another goal was to (Read More....)
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