Maszman Speaks!

T. Rowe Price — Invest with con­fi­dence that they’ll lose your per­sonal finan­cial data.

I don’t care which TV actor shills for them, you’re tak­ing a chance with T. Rowe Price.

The Pal­mAd­dicts blog has reg­u­lar con­tests where you can win var­i­ous gad­gets that they’ve tested or reviewed by sub­mit­ting an arti­cle on how you use you Palm in your daily life. The Feb­ru­ary con­test is for a Mac­Book Pro and I sub­mit­ted an arti­cle on how I use my Treo 700p to con­nect my per­sonal and work lives together. Amaz­ingly, they’ve posted it today.

Jason Kot­tke live-blogged the Myth­busters show on whether an air­plane on a con­veyor belt would take off. If you’re new to this, the setup is a plane on a large con­veyor belt able to move at the same rate as the plane. As the plane begins to accel­er­ate, the belt moves in the oppo­site direc­tion. The ques­tion is whether or not the plane would take off from the con­veyor or sim­ply stay in place. Myth­busters answered that question.

Get the Flick, an air traf­fic controller/blogger explains Air Traf­fic Safety vs. Capac­ity.

The rea­son is as old as it is sim­ple — greed. Air­lines can make more money sell­ing 70 air­planes worth of tick­ets per hour than they could if they lim­ited them­selves to the 60 air­planes per hour that the run­way can han­dle. In fair­ness to the air­lines, it’s not in their inter­est to limit themselves.

Feel like fly­ing now?

‘Miss­ing iPhones’ claim is much ado about noth­ing, says expert

Infor­ma­tion is our only secu­rity weapon: Bruce Schneier — Secu­rity — www​.itnews​.com​.au