I hear it all the time....."Should I start a computer repair business?"....Very good question and extremely hard to answer. Some of the questions you have to ask yourself are: Do I like a steady paycheck? Do I like vacation time yearly? Do I like having sick days? Do I like my weekends free? Do I like not having a 401K plan? Do I like the cost of insurance for my family? Am I an outstanding tech? Am I a good business person? Now, those are just a few of the questions you have to ask yourself before you can really decide. One of the biggest complaints is "I am tired of working for the man"....Well sometimes the grass is not always greener on the other side....Maybe looking at employment elsewhere is a better choice than starting your own business. Maybe there are actually things you can do to improve [+]

By Eric Larson All San Diego Computer Repair There is a controversial bill working its way through the US Senate. The PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA) is aimed at blocking the pirating, stealing, "sharing," [enter your term of choice here] of Intellectual Property. The idea is to give courts the power to compel ISPs to block requests to domains "deemed to be infringing" against intellectual property laws. The bill was introduced by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), backed by Hollywood and the entertainment industry and has attracted the attention of several groups of experts in the fields of technology, security and law professors. These experts are raising warning flags indicating the bill would have a problem constitutionally "read here" , it could break the DNS system "read here" and could in fact backfire by actually aiding the very hackers it is designed to thwart  [+]