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Ideas for Changing America: Save Small Business From the CPSIA

Ideas for Changing America: Save Small Business From the CPSIA

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H2O Playlist: Home The Phoenix > News Features > Congress bans kids from libr Is it possible that Congress has just inadvertently turned millions of children’s books into contraband? At the moment, anything seems possible with regard to the sprawling, 62-page Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), passed this past August with overwhelming margins in both the House (424-1) and the Senate (89-3). The CPSIA, intended to keep lead out of toys, may well also keep books out of libraries, says Emily Sheketoff, associate executive director of the American Library Association. “We are very busy trying to come up with a way to make it not apply to libraries,” said Sheketoff. But unless she succeeds in lobbying Capitol Hill for an exemption, she believes libraries have two choices under the CPSIA: “Either they take all the children’s books off the shelves,” she says, “or they ban children from the library.” On February 10, the new law gets teeth. Historically, books have been considered more dangerous to read than to eat.

tech.memeorandum Are you Sure your Email isn’t being Hacked? In the interests of full disclosure, I didn’t come up with this idea. I read about it in a computer magazine a year or two back but of course when I wanted to refer to it for this article, I couldn’t find it! But someone on Digg eventually managed to find it so here is the original article if you want to see it. As email providers give away more and more storage space, more and more personal information is being stored in those accounts. But if someone HAS cracked your email password, it may not be apparent to you. Here’s how to do it : 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The OneStat account page then gives you details on each “visitor” including the date and time they accessed the web document and more importantly their location and IP address! So how does having this information help you? By the way, I recommended signing up for One Stat because the author of the original idea mentioned them.

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