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e-Voting is a bad idea

A few years back, while at the Defcon computer security conference in Las Vegas, I attended a meeting where the subject of “e-voting” was discussed. “E-voting (electronic voting)” means voting with computerized voting machines, as well as the idea of voting from an...

Social buying websites can be cool if you’re careful

According the book “Contemporary Marketing,” by Louis Boone and David Kurtz, published in 2007, 342 billion shopping discount coupons are offered in the United States every year. Even though only 3.2 billion of those coupons are actually redeemed, that still works out...

PC RipOff.com

Perhaps you’ve seen the TV commercials featuring the obviously technically non-savvy mom complaining about how slow her computer is. To the rescue comes her obviously much smarter smarmy son, who fixes her computer’s problems with a single click of the mouse. Or, the...

More Windows performance tweaks

[This is an updated version of a previously-written column] We looked last week at ways to speed up computers running Microsoft Windows. I received so many good responses to the article that I’ve decided to present you with a few more easy-to-implement Windows tweaks....

Tweak Windows for best performance

[This is an updated version of a previously-written column] Microsoft’s Windows operating system is by far the most widely used operating system in the world, dominating the market to the point that most folks don’t even know that there are any alternative ways to use...