diy
R. Preston McAfee, a Cal Tech
economics professor,
is annoyed at how overpriced textbooks are. "'The person who pays for the book, the parent or the student, doesn’t choose it,' he said. 'There is this sort of creep. It’s always O.K. to add $5.'" To fight back, he's foregone the potential six-figure advance traditional publishing would have granted, and published his textbook online for free.
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security
As usual, the companies that we entrust to keep our computer security safe have proven to be barely capable of protecting their own employees from identity theft. In other words,
McAfee has lost the personal information of 6,000 employees, including their names, addresses, stock options and Social Security numbers.
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Consumerist
