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Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) has introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives legistraltion that would allow many U.S. taxpayers to receive a tax credit for qualified training costs of up to $4,000 per year, more in some areas.Both employers and laid-off workers would be eligible for the tax credit under Congressman Weller's bill, the The Technology Retraining and Investment Now Act of 2004, referred to as the TRAIN Act.
Knocking on wood here as I have not had any major hard-drive issues in several years but they always seem to crop up at the worst possible moment. I remember a hard-drive going bad several hours before I was headed out the door for a 10 day trip overseas. I had no choice but to let the drive die a
Great tutorial on how to convert and play music you have purchased on other devices besides your iPod. [Engadget]
Privacy advocates are worried that RFID tags will end up being used to companies every growing arsenals of technology to track our every day purchases. Ziff Davis has a pretty good wrap up of articles on where RFID is today and where it is going tomorrow. [ZDNet]
Yahoo and Google took measures to remove a companies listing from its ranking algorithms after they were caught in tricking the search engines to give them a higher ranking score using a technique called cloaking. Everyone wants to be #1 on a search engine but it is a very hard milestone to reach and some companies will do whatever it
Thanks to Scoble for the link Dare makes some great points that I think a significant number of us are on-board with. [Dare]
Just like any other thing Microsoft does to try and stop pirates from applying updates someone will come up with a work around. Comments from last week article on the subject indicates that those of you running bootleg copies of XP have found ways to install SP1 and other updates to bootleg copies. [ZDNet]