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		<title>Ontario Fines Carpooling Site, Limits Use</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/11/16/ontario-fines-carpooling-site-limits-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sound like a good idea?  Yeah, I thought so too.  I don't have any need to carpool myself but if I lived in a major city and had to commute all over the place I'd give it a shot.]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source, Multi-Platform, Secure IM Client</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/11/10/open-source-multi-platform-secure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.peculiarplace.com/?p=1173</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[hile I haven't had a whole lot of need for Instant Messaging and I have no idea why most people would need secure IM except for planning those <a href="http://www.orlandothemeparkvacations.com/">Orlando vacations</a> getaways where you leave the (presumeably grown) kids at home (or send them someplace else for their vacation)]]></description>
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		<title>Official Unemployment Figures Don’t Show The Whole Picture</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/11/09/official-unemployment-figures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I see that the Labor department has released <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/07/national/main4581449.shtml" rel="nofollow">new figures</a> concerning unemployment and that according to their figures, unemployment is at a fourteen year high of 6.5% as of October '08.  There's a problem with this figure however.]]></description>
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		<title>How to clear the page file during reboot or shutdown</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/30/how-to-clear-the-page-file-during/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[delete page file]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.peculiarplace.com/?p=1171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem is that even then it's sometimes possible to retrieve this information by reading the Windows page file.  This file contains the virtual memory used by Windows. This means that it will almost certainly contain sensitive information including passwords and copies of recently edited or viewed files.]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon Wants Robots That Can Hunt A “non-cooperative human”</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/30/pentagon-wants-robots-that-can/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/30/pentagon-wants-robots-that-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.peculiarplace.com/?p=1170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a story on New Scientist that&#8217;s just a bit un-nerving.
The Pentagon is seeking contractors to set them up with a &#8220;Multi-Robot Pursuit System&#8221;.  This would essentially be a pack of robots under remote control, going after a human target.
Given their previously shown efforts involving armed military robots, I can&#8217;t help thinking just how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA’s Latest Video Surveillance Project</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/28/darpas-latest-video-surveillance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/28/darpas-latest-video-surveillance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.peculiarplace.com/?p=1169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does this sound a bit like Big Brother's dream toy?  Yeah, I thought so too.  The question is "How do we pull the plug on it?".  This growing trend of allowing more surveillance, censorship and government control of our lives in the name of things that on the surface, sound like good causes is really alarming.]]></description>
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		<title>FBI Warns The Bad Guys Want To Hack US, Absolutely Nobody Surprised</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/25/fbi-warns-the-bad-guys-want-to/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/25/fbi-warns-the-bad-guys-want-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.peculiarplace.com/?p=1168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again I'm catching up on old Slashdot mail and I ran across a headline that declared: "FBI warns of sweeping global threat to U.S. cybersecurity"]]></description>
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		<title>We Interrupt This Blog …</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/24/we-interrupt-this-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You see, not long ago we got a new camcorder and I'm sure that everybody agrees that getting something like that means that you MUST do a new video with it a.s.a.p..  That's what I've done.]]></description>
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		<title>UK Government Claims More Spying Needed</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/20/uk-government-claims-more-spying/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/20/uk-government-claims-more-spying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.peculiarplace.com/?p=1166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's things like this that are part of the reason that governments need to be not only watched, but held in check by their citizens.  They seem to have a bad habit of forgetting that the only reason they exist is to serve the citizens.]]></description>
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		<title>Ballmer Blunders, Windows “Cloud” Due Out Soon</title>
		<link>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/18/ballmer-blunders-windows-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.peculiarplace.com/2008/10/18/ballmer-blunders-windows-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a piece on PCPro about "Windows Cloud" being released soon.  There's all the usual Microsoft company line stuff about how innovative and wonderful they are for pushing windows into "cloud computing".. yada yada yada  PHHHHBBBBBT!]]></description>
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