Congressional Research Service: Illegal Aliens Can Receive Benefits Under House Health Care Bill

Tuesday, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the "research arm" for the United States Congress, issued a report validating an analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), that illegal aliens would be able to receive benefits under the House health care reform bill, America’s Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200).
The report, [...]

Tweak Allows Installing Any Win7 Version from One DVD

Let’s be clear, this is a way to try, not indefinitely use different versions of Windows 7 from one DVD or .ISO image. A small tweak will allow users tech-savvy enough to get a taste of all the versions of Windows 7.
Now, why do you need a little technical expertise? You need to remove [...]

Feds May Sue SF if Sanctuary Law is Strengthened

There is a new effort by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to strengthen the city’s sanctuary city policy.
On Tuesday, eight members of the board of supervisors will introduce legislation aimed at making it more difficult for officials to hand over undocumented youths suspected of crimes by federal immigration officials.
Under the current policy, [...]

Illegal Aliens Trump Veterans At U.S. Medical Offices

An immigration reform activist predicts illegal aliens and Somali refugees will be at the front of the healthcare line if President Obama has his way.
As previously reported on OneNewsNow, Democrats defeated a Republican-backed amendment offered by Dean Heller (R-Nevada) that would have prevented illegal immigrants from receiving government-subsidized healthcare under the proposed plan backed [...]

Illegal immigrants debate could potentially block reform

Granting them coverage is an explosive issue, but the charged debate shouldn’t derail needed changes to the current health system.
Opponents of healthcare reform argue that Congress would give illegal immigrants health insurance at taxpayer expense. The claim stirs a lot of resentment, particularly in border states struggling to cover the costs that undocumented immigrants impose [...]

Google’s Caffeine: A jolt to search rankings?

One of the largest behind-the-scenes updates to Google’s search technology in three years is under way, as the company reworks its computing muscle.
On Monday evening, Google quietly began soliciting feedback for "Caffeine," a new system for Web searches that is being tested completely separately from the live search results currently found through Google.com.
Google [...]

Off the clock? Hyperconnected workers sue employers

Do you consider yourself to be "working" when you check your e-mail after dinner and find yourself still addressing work issues two hours later? What about when you let yourself answer that emergency call from a coworker or a client on an off day? The line between work and play is growing increasingly muddy [...]

Windows XP SP3 runs browsers 13% faster than Windows 7 RTM

In a set of comprehensive Windows Web browser performance tests conducted by Betanews on August 7 — our first test of browsers running on the final Windows 7 RTM Build 7600 distributed by Microsoft yesterday — the five major families of browsers tended to run 13% faster on Windows XP Service Pack 3 than [...]

Installing Symantec Endpoint Protection v11.0.4202 MR4 MP2 on Windows 7

I’ve been installing Windows 7 on multiple systems around the house in order to learn some of it’s idiosyncrasies.  Wouldn’t you know it, I found one!  Because Windows 7 was just released to MSDN (what I use) users on 6 August and Enterprise Software Assurance customers on 7 August, the beta and release candidates are [...]

Testers Claim Discovery of Serious CHKDSK Bug in Windows 7 RTM Build

A contributor to the online forum TheHotfix.net has provided visual evidence of what appears to be a serious memory leak caused by the CHKDSK hard disk integrity checking utility included with a build of Windows 7 that has been tagged for RTM. The bug appears to occur during phase 4 of the disk check, and [...]