01/17/13 Hyper Local Pelham Manor News Reports

COMPREHENSIVE REAL-TIME NEWS FEED FOR PELHAM MANOR, NY.

• Belgian twins choose euthanasia _{2013-01-16, 11:26 am}
  Is there a right more precious than the freedom to choose what to do with one's own life? Here's the case of twins who decided to end their lives, rather than face a cruel and torturous life ahead. Disagree if you want, choose a different path if it happens to you, but keep yourself and [...]
• Electric Cars To Make Noise _{2013-01-09, 05:08 pm}
  I don't like government regulation much but there are areas that concern health and safety where government regulation may not be a bad thing. Making electric cars a bit noisier is one of those areas (Electric Cars Must Make Noises Can Hear Under U.S. Rule). As a runner and walker I have been startled by [...]
• Year 2038 problem _{2013-01-06, 09:11 pm}
  25 years from now we could be dealing with an issue similar to the Y2K issue, year 2038 problem. This problem was brought to my attention by  user 'Ken' commenting on the countdown tool page on this site. Basically *nix systems keep time in 32-bit integer formats counting seconds since Jan. 1, 1970. On Jan. 19, [...]
• Google Voice, Still No MMS Support _{2012-12-08, 06:24 pm}
  Recently someone asked me if I had received their text message. I am a Google Voice user and had not received the text message. Worse yet, the person hadn't received a bounce either so apparently the text had just vanished without a trace. Turns out that the person had actually attached a photo to the [...]
• Disabling SELinux _{2012-11-30, 06:16 pm}
  I know it's sacrilegious for some to disable a security feature on a platform, but SELinux (an enhanced Linux security feature) has left me no choice but doing exactly that on Linux. SELinux was added to Linux to give it additional security measures beyond what it inherited From Unix. By default many of the Linux [...]
• The Perils of Self-Hosting _{2012-11-18, 02:58 pm}
  Two weeks ago, when nature was flexing its muscle in the northeastern USA in the form of hurricane Sandy, I was away from home on a business trip. When the alert email from my monitoring company arrived in my inbox informing me of the web server outage, I wasn't surprised. Power had been lost, the [...]
• Prostitution, So What? _{2012-10-21, 07:00 pm}
  Once again the American legal hypocrisy rears its ugly head to punish a bunch of adults for doing something it should be no one's business. (‘Zumba Madam’ Allegedly Used Maine Dance Studio As Brothel and Made Videos of Customers - The Daily Beast.) A group of men up in Maine paid for sex and now [...]
• Citigroup CEO Resigns _{2012-10-16, 02:41 pm}
  Can't say I'm shocked to get the news of Citibank's Vikram Pandit quitting (Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit resigns | Reuters.) Evidently Citibank's online banking has been an absolute disaster recently. There have been numerous outages, slow response, and unscheduled downtimes. Telephone customer service and tech support have also been horrendous during these outages. Customers are told [...]
• 101.9 FM, WRXP - Alternative Rock to Sports Talk. Why? _{2012-10-10, 03:03 pm}
  I was so happy when 101.9 in New York finally switched from the news format to alternative rock a few months. I only listen to that station and NPR in my car. Now CBS has bought the station and will be simulcasting vapid sports talk with their AM station. Is there really a need for more boring [...]
• Too Small to Succeed _{2012-10-08, 06:06 pm}
  I used to think that the Internet was the great equalizer in the business world. A small guy with programming skills and a big drive sets up a new site and offers a novel service. The service goes viral and the small guy becomes a small company and builds and expands his way to success