Scoop’s Views

A group of protestors, numbering somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000, and described as Chinese-Americans, decided to protest CNN’s Hollywood office yesterday, protesting CNN’s commentator Jack Cafferty, who made a comment on CNN’s The Situation Room, back on April 9 — almost two weeks ago. Among his comments that day, Cafferty apparently called China’s goods “junk” and its leaders a “bunch of goons and thugs.”

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A pal of many years from what some consider the backwoods of Illinois, PapaGrizz, sent me an email with yet another item added to the list of Chinese-made toys being recalled. Here’s the most current addition to the list of Chinese toys being recalled in the United States.

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ResMed, one of the leading manufacturers of equipment used to treat sleep apnea, has issued a worldwide recall for more than one-quarter of a million CPAP machines due to a potential risk with the power supply connector.

In fact, the developers went so far as to explain that although not all downloads of [version] 2.1.1 were affected, we’re declaring the entire version dangerous.

ConAgra is warning consumers to not eat peanut butter it produces, namely Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter.

When I began fiddling with the SanDisk Cruzer, I found it has this “desktop” software, so you can encrypt the contents of the drive. That’s a nice idea, but since I have no idea what’s behind that encryption, and didn’t take time to hack it, I decided to simply wipe the drive and use it how I use all keyfobs: using my own encryption source. I didn’t wipe everything off the drive, though, until I played with the stuff that came as bonus features.