FCC: Presidential emergency alerts to be tested
February 7, 2011 - 9:17am
Lisa Fowlkes, Deputy Chief, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, FCC
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=15&sid=2262066
Everybody has heard the national Emergency Alert System (EAS). Those familiar
"duck
>From voice to broadband: FCC redirects its $8.7B in phone bill fees
By Matthew Lasar | Last updated about an hour ago
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2011/02/fcc-will-remake-87-billion-program-for-world-that-no-longer-exists.ars
Can the Federal Communications Commission save a huge g
(Disclosure: I am on the event steering committee. --- rick)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/saic-and-umbc-launch-inaugural-cyber-challenge-and-conference-115473354.html
SAIC and UMBC Launch Inaugural Cyber Challenge and Conference
Competition to Further Establish Maryland as a Leader
February 7, 2011
Support Grows for Tiered Risk System at Airports
By SUSAN STELLIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/business/08security.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
One reason airport security measures frustrate travelers is that screening
procedures tend to treat all passengers the same: as
Ummm, yeah. HDCP, Blu-Ray, and what else was 'disclosed' and how well did the
vendors/industry succeed in getting that genie back in the bottle? Good luck.
--- rick
Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PlayStation 3 Hack
• By David Kravets
• February 7,
(Somehow I don't think this won't be "change you can believe in" -- unless
you're the entertainment cartel, that is. --- rick)
February 7, 2011 10:11 PM PST
White House will propose new digital copyright laws
by Declan McCullagh
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20030956-281.html?part=rss&subj
Columbia Law's Tim Wu to Advise FTC
By SPENCER E. ANTE And THOMAS CATAN
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703313304576132310943386724.html
Silicon Valley has a new fear factor. Columbia University Law School professor
Tim Wu, an influential academic and author who popularized the te
*stunned*
t 12:20 PM ET, 02/ 8/2011
House rejects measure that would extend key Patriot Act provisions through
December
By Felicia Sonmez
Updated: 7:15 p.m.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/ahead-of-patriot-act-vote-some.html?hpid=topnews
A measure to extend key provisions of the
Forgiveness via iPhone: Church approves confession app
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/02/confession-app-approved-by-chu.html
16:30 8 February 2011
Apps
Technology
Niall Firth, technology editor
Even for the most ardent Catholic, it can sometimes be tricky making the time
to co
(from a USAF friend)
The 2011 National Military Strategy was just released today.
Here is the link to the full document:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/atwar/NMS-110208.pdf
Disclaimer: I believe the document is unclassified, but all AF personnel and
their kids should use dis
Salem-News.com (Feb-04-2011 00:50)
Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february042011/global-superstorms-ta.php
Terrence Aym Salem-News.com
Superstorms can also cause certain societies, cultures or whole countries to
collapse. Others may go
Data Shows Disastrous GPS Jamming from FCC-Approved Broadcaster
February 1, 2011
Representatives of the GPS industry presented to members of the Federal
Communications Commission clear, strong laboratory evidence of interference
with the GPS signal by a proposed new broadcaster on January 19 of
No break for cops caught on camera
Court says officers are liable for speeding even on duty
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-hermann-police-tickets-20110201,0,4411652,full.story
It's a widely held assumption, true or not, that cops give other cops breaks on
traffic infracti
'Inexcusable' delay on TSA body-scanner safety reports
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By Alison Young, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2011-02-09-tsa09_ST_N.htm
The Transportation Security Admin
9 February 2011 Last updated at 01:00 ET
Internet role in Egypt's protests
By Anne Alexander University of Cambridge
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12400319?print=true
A few days after the fall of Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, a
Jordanian newspaper printed a joke app
Data intelligence firms proposed a systematic attack against WikiLeaks
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks
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(Yep, that's the Congressional way: if at first you don't succeed getting what
you want, try using a different set of rules. It was nice to think the House
had come to its senses about this idiotic law, but alas, that likely was a
short-lived delusion. Silly me. Now if it somehow fails a secon
Cybersecurity and Cyber Freedom: The Future of Digital Surveillance Technology
Advances in communications technologies have enabled countless new
opportunities for business growth, and have increased the ability of citizens
and advocacy groups to promote change in this country and across the gl
Air Force Rescinds New Guidance on WikiLeaks
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/02/af_rescinds_guidance.html
February 9th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood
Secrecy News reported Monday on strange new guidance from the Air Force
Materiel Command declaring that Air Force employees and even their family
Scary Night Dragons Fall from Sky
Author: Marc Maiffret Date: February 10th, 2011 Categories: General, Network
Security
http://blog.eeye.com/general/scary-night-dragons-fall-from-sky
Reading the headlines today one could not help but notice the latest
installment of “scary Chinese hacker press
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12433045
11 February 2011 Last updated at 11:13 ET
Egypt crisis: President Hosni Mubarak resigns as leader
Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down as president of Egypt.
Vice-President Omar Suleiman made the announcement in a brief statement on
state T
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/11/v-print/2062565/justice-department-assertion-fbi.html
Posted on Fri, Feb. 11, 2011
Justice Department assertion: FBI can get phone records without oversight
By MARISA TAYLOR
McClatchy Newspapers
The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted tha
(the table shown at the link below is amusing. -- rick)
Amazon already revealed the three different Tron: Legacy Blu-ray & Blu-ray 3D
combo packs on the way, from the 2-disc standard edition to the two movie,
5-disc Identity Disc-packaged limited edition but now we know the release date
(4/5/
February 11, 2011
Hackers Reveal Offers to Spy on Corporate Rivals
By ERIC LIPTON and CHARLIE SAVAGE
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/politics/12hackers.html
WASHINGTON — A fight between a group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers and a
California-based Internet security business has opened a window o
Eighth Circuit declares RAZR a computer under federal law
By Michael Gorman posted Feb 12th 2011 9:14PM
There's little doubt that today's smartphones are pocketable computers --
they're equally or more powerful than the desktop PCs of yesteryear -- but what
about dumbphones? Well, in US v. Kra
(c/o MS)
Lost iPhone? Lost Passwords!
Practical Consideration of iOS Device Encryption Security
Jens Heider, Matthias Boll
Fraunhofer Institute for
Secure Information Technology (SIT)
February 9, 2011
Abstract
The paper highlights risks that accompany losing a locked iOS device
regarding con
February 12, 2011
The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
By DAVID SEGAL
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html
PRETEND for a moment that you are Google’s search engine.
Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first
result?
There are, of course, a
Op-Ed: A Civil Perspective on Cybersecurity
• By Jane Holl Lute and Bruce McConnell
• February 14, 2011 |
• 7:00 am |
• Categories: Op-Ed
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/dhs-op-ed/all/1
Jane Holl Lute is the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. Br
French LOPPSI Bill Adopted: The Internet under Control?
Submitted on 09 February 2011
Paris, February 8th 2011 – Yesterday afternoon, the French Parliament voted the
LOPPSI bill whose 4th article1 enables administrative censorship of the
Internet, using child protection as a Trojan horse. Over
Tell Your Senators Not to Rubber-Stamp the PATRIOT Act!
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=463
Despite the valiant efforts of liberty-defending congresspersons from both
political parties, the House of Representatives just passed an extension of the
three USA PA
CRS Questions the Open Government Initiative
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/02/crs_open_gov.html
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=4958
The Congressional Research Service took a decidedly skeptical view of the Obama
Administration’s Open Government Initiative in a recently updated report
February 14, 2011
U.S. Policy to Address Internet Freedom
By MARK LANDLER
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/15clinton.html?pagewanted=print
WASHINGTON — Days after Facebook and Twitter added fuel to a revolt in Egypt,
the Obama administration plans to announce a new policy on Internet fre
Questions Surface About Computer Security Specialist's Credentials
Tough questions for a man who claims to be one of the world's top computer
security experts. You may have seen him giving advice on Fox News and CNN. He's
even appeared on this station. But a CBS Atlanta investigation has turned
(c/o MC)
Disclosure: I agree with these (but don't do Angry Birds) however I make no
bones about saying I prefer pico/pine to vi, emacs, and such. We all go with
what we feel most comfortable with, even if the mere discussion of said
preferences ends up looking like a dogmatic religious debat
Online Appliance Shop Makes Customers Sign Agreement Threatening Criminal Libel
Suits For Negative Reviews
from the that's-called-lying dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110214/01405713081/online-appliance-shop-makes-customers-sign-agreement-threatening-criminal-libel-suits-negative-review
Anonymous speaks: the inside story of the HBGary hack
By Peter Bright
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars/
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February 15, 2011
Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet
By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF
Epitaphs for the Mubarak government all note that the mobilizing power of the
Internet was one of the Egyptian opposi
(I see this as a 'sign of the times' as opposed to a conspiracy theory ...
IMNSHO both partiies involved have brought this situation on themselves. ---
rick)
Obama's Media Machine: State Run Media 2.0?
White House Hones Online Messaging Operation Ahead of 2012 Campaign
http://abcnews.go.com
VIA IP
>> From: Joly
> Subject: Webcast: U.S. Senate Hearing on seizing websites – today
> 2/16Subject: Webcast: U.S. Senate Hearing on seizing websites – today 2/16
>
> In contrast to yesterday’s Hillary Clinton speech about Internet
> Freedom, today, Feb. 16 2011, the United States Sen
Cable And Hollywood Fight Having Their Gatekeeper Status Taken Away
from the inevitable-is-coming dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110214/00060613076/cable-hollywood-fight-having-their-gatekeeper-status-taken-away.shtml
Matthew Lasar has a nice writeup about how the big cable lobbyists, N
How a handful of geeks defied the USSR
When twenty years ago Gorbatchev was faced with the challenge of a coup, only
one channel was able to survive Soviet censorship. This is the story of how
Usenet invented online activism.
by Olivier Tesquet On February 4, 2011
http://owni.eu/2011/02/04/ho
Clinton: We Love Net Freedom, Unless It Involves WikiLeaks
By Mathew Ingram Feb. 15, 2011, 4:04pm PT 5 Comments
http://gigaom.com/2011/02/15/clinton-we-love-net-freedom-unless-it-involves-wikileaks/
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech today at George Washington
University about Int
(c/o JC)
Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war
•
• Martin Chulov and Helen Pidd in Karlsruhe
• guardian.co.uk,Tuesday 15 February 2011 12.58 GMT
• Article history
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/defector-admits-wmd-lies-
(The PBS NOVA episode this week about Watson's development and learning is well
worth an hour of watching. Great stuff!!! Find it online at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html.-- rick)
IBM's Watson Dominates Jeopardy Competition on Day 2
By Ian Paul, PCWorld
Hacked and now vandalized, HBGary pulls out of RSA
by Robert McMillan
February 16, 2011 —
http://www.itworld.com/print/137213
The California security company that is at the center of a controversy over a
plan to discredit WikiLeaks and its supporters abruptly pulled itself out of
the RSA sec
Don't Read This Unless You Want to Know If IBM Won `Jeopardy'
By Katie Hoffmann - Feb 16, 2011 5:09 PM ET Wed Feb 16 22:09:41 GMT 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-16/don-t-read-this-unless-you-want-to-know-if-ibm-won-jeopardy-.html
Machine bested man today, as International Business Ma
Senate Bill Would Make Leaks a Felony
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/02/cardin_leaks.html
Legislation introduced in the Senate this week would broadly criminalize leaks
of classified information. The bill (S. 355) sponsored by Sen. Benjamin Cardin
(D-MD) would make it a felony for a gov
Dubious Deal, Cloaked by National Security Claim
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=print
WASHINGTON — For eight years, government officials turned to Dennis Montgomery,
a California computer programmer, for eye-poppin
Internet ‘kill switch’ bill revised, still angers civil rights activists
• By: Andrew Couts •
• February 19, 2011
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/internet-kill-switch-bill-revised-still-angers-civil-rights-activists/
The Internet "kill switch" has been removed from legisl
Yeah, this is going to be amusing as anything to watch. Anyone want to bet who
wins this one??? (Then again, I'm not sure who is more desparate for the
media attention, WBC or certain former politicians from Alaska...you know how
much they both hate being out of the limelight for too long.)
No Big Deal, But Google May Have Invented a Game to Get Kids’ Social Security
Numbers
• 2/22/11 at 3:10 PM
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/02/no_big_deal_but_googles_may_ha.html
Okay, just type in the last four digits, and you're done! Wasn't that
fun??Photo: iStockPhoto
"Doodle-4-G
Chris Dodd Breaking Promise Not To Become A Lobbyist Just Weeks After Leaving
Senate; Joining MPAA As Top Lobbyist
from the ah,-the-lies-of-politicians-and-hollywood dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110221/14490613193/chris-dodd-breaking-promise-not-to-become-lobbyist-just-weeks-after-lea
Maryland Corrections Agency Demanding All Social Media Passwords Of Potential
Hires
from the privacy? dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110221/00523513179/maryland-corrections-agency-demanding-all-social-media-passwords-potential-hires.shtml
You may recall back in 2009 that we wrote about
February 23, 2011 4:00 AM PST
Feds seek new ways to bypass encryption
by Declan McCullagh
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20035168-281.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
SAN FRANCISCO--When agents at the Drug Enforcement Administration learned a
suspect was using PGP to encrypt documen
Al Jazeera Coverage Enrages Dictators, Wins Global Viewers
By Matthew Campbell - Feb 25, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-02-25/al-jazeera-enrages-dictators-wins-global-viewers-with-coverage-of-unrest.html
“Don’t believe those misleading dog stations,” Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone, 23 February 2011
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223
The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in
"p
February 22, 2011, 3:25PM
RSA 2011: Winning the War But Losing Our Soul
by Paul Roberts
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/rsa-2011-winning-war-losing-our-soul-022211
There was lots of noise and distraction on the crowded Expo floor of the RSA
Security Conference this year. After a grueling cou
I see a lot of coverage about Intel's Thunderbolt (USB-alternative) on the new
Macbooks and it looks nice in terms of file transfer, daisy-chaining, and so
forth. It's being positioned as *the* next-gen interface for moving large
volumes of data, video, multiple monitors, and so forth.
That
Sony's Neverending War Against The Freedom To Tinker And Innovate
from the learn-to-let-go dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110224/23195013251/sonys-neverending-war-against-freedom-to-tinker-innovate.shtml
We recently compared Sony's lawsuit against GeoHot for adding functionality
(that
Cyber cops and domain name registrars meet to tackle net crooks
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/25/cyber_cops_meet_domain_name_registrars/
By Kevin Murphy • Get more from this author
Posted in Government, 25th February 2011 16:41 GMT
Cyber cops from both sides of the Atlantic are meeting w
Feds spy on reporter in leak probe
By: Josh Gerstein
February 24, 2011 11:06 PM EST
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=5AF5D3CD-EFBA-9364-70DB200BF7A60C7B
Federal investigators trying to find out who leaked information about a CIA
attempt to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program obtained a New
Google's war on content farms begins with algorithm update
By Ed Oswald | Published February 25, 2011, 1:46 PM
http://www.betanews.com/article/Googles-war-on-content-farms-begins-with-algorithm-update/1298659416
Google took a big step Thursday night towards dealing with the issue of content
Over 40,000 Does Dismissed In Copyright Troll Cases
News Update by Eva Galperin
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/02/over-40-000-does-dismissed-copyright-troll-cases
These have been some eventful weeks in the world of copyright trolling.
Thousands of unnamed “John Does” in P2P file sharing laws
How to not squander a Sputnik moment
By Gunnar Peterson | Friday, Feb. 25, 2011
http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2011/02/25/26116/how_to_not_squander_a_sputnik_moment
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First we have Westboro Baptist Church taking on Anonymous in the court of
public opnion.
Now Gregory Evans is taking on Attrition.Org in a Georgia federal court.
This must be Global Demonstrate-Your-Internet-Idiocy Week.
--- rick
< -- >
We've enjoyed our history of legal threats over the y
• TECHNOLOGY
• FEBRUARY 25, 2011, 5:00 P.M. ET
Facebook Tries to Simplify Privacy Policy
By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
In an effort to take some of the legalese out of a legal document, Facebook
Inc. unveiled a new draft of its closely watched privacy policy.
The new policy doesn't cha
HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations
The new provisions are the first significant revision to ebook lending terms
By Josh Hadro Feb 25, 2011
In the first significant revision to lending terms for ebook circulation,
HarperCollins has announced that new titles licensed from libra
"Change we can believe in" ??? more like "Change we can choke on." ---rick
Obama signs temporary extension of Patriot Act
The Associated Press
Friday, February 25, 2011; 5:21 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505562_pf.html
WASHINGTON -- President
HOMELAND SECURITY PLANS DNA SCREENING...
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/26/news-tsa-scanner-1-2/
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Real Steganography with TrueCrypt
http://keyj.s2000.at/?p=458
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(Looking at the nonsensical URL, one wonders if the Philly Inquirer isn't
trying to make political statement? -- rick)
Al-Jazeera seeks TV distribution deal with Comcast
February 25, 2011|By Bob Fernandez, Inquirer Staff Writer
http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-25/business/28629801_1_mouthp
Anonymous declares war on Koch Industries
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49513260/OpWisconsin
Dear Citizens of the United States of America,
It has come to our attention that the brothers, David and Charles Koch--the
billionaire owners of Koch Industries--have long attempted to usurp American
Demo
Yay, cloud!!! -- rick
Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence vanish into the
cloud?
By Sean Hollister posted Feb 27th 2011 6:13PM
If you've got a working Gmail account, you might want to back it up every so
often -- as many as 500,000 Gmail users lost access to
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288304576171033398632972.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
TECHNOLOGY
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
J.P. Morgan Fund in Talks to Take Twitter Stake
By ANUPREETA DAS And AMIR EFRATI
A fund run by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is in talks with Twitter Inc. to take a
minority s
FYI if anyone upgrades their iCal to the new version (a forced upgrade soon,
btw) it will break the ability of Blackberry Desktop to sync with iCal.
Downgrading iCal back to the previous version (via the Me.Com website) seems to
fix the problem.
Hope this gets fixed when the upgrade becomes m
February 28, 2011 4:00 AM PST
No support for U.S. proposal for domain name veto
by Declan McCullagh
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20037090-281.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The Obama administration has failed in its bid to allow it and other
governments to veto future top-level
Last U.S. World War I veteran Frank W. Buckles dies at 110
By Paul Duggan
Monday, February 28, 2011; 7:53 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022800165_pf.html
Frank W. Buckles died early Sunday, sadly yet not unexpectedly at age 110,
having achieved a singu
Libyans Using Coded Dating Site Messages To Avoid Government Monitoring
from the can't-stop-technology dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110226/18330013292/libyans-using-coded-dating-site-messages-to-avoid-government-monitoring.shtml
A few different people have sent over this fascinating s
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-02-28/morgan-stanley-network-hacked-in-same-china-based-attacks-that-hit-google.html
Morgan Stanley Hacked in China-Based Attacks That Hit Google
By Michael Riley - Feb 28, 2011
Morgan Stanley, the world’s top merger adviser, experienced a “very sensitiv
Obama administration joins critics of U.S. nonprofit that oversees Internet
By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 28, 2011; 2:12 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022803719_pf.html
The California nonprofit organization that operates t
c/o AJR.
I don't necessarily say this is causality, but with Facebook, you never know.
-- rick
(if the Huffpo link is broken, visit
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-28/facebook-plans-to-proceed-with-phone-number-sharing-feature.html)
> Rick,
>
> I am guessing the below privacy chang
Democrats call for an investigation of law firm, 3 tech companies
By Dan Eggen
Monday, February 28, 2011; 10:26 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR2011022805810_pf.html
A group of House Democrats is calling on Republican leaders to investigate a
prominent Washin
Judge Dumps Yet Another Mass Infringement Suit In Response To Single, Pro Se
Motion To Quash
from the quashed-indeed dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110226/15103513284/judge-dumps-yet-another-mass-infringement-suit-response-to-single-pro-se-motion-to-quash.shtml
The various lawyers who
ICE Boss: It's Okay To Ignore The Constitution If It's To Protect Companies
from the how-nice-of-them dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110228/11122813301/ice-boss-its-okay-to-ignore-constitution-if-its-to-protect-companies.shtml
While the folks at Homeland Security keep telling me that th
Senator vows to reform the PATRIOT Act
By Eric W. Dolan
February 23, 2011 @ 10:37 pm
In Breaking Banner,Nation | No Comments
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/23/senator-vows-to-reform-patriot-act/print/
A Democratic senator from Oregon said Tuesday that Congress must use the three
month exte
IEEE Decides That Its Own Profits Are More Important Than Sharing Knowledge
from the sad-state-of-affairs dept
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110301/03305813311/ieee-decides-that-its-own-profits-are-more-important-than-sharing-knowledge.shtml
A year ago, we wrote about IEEE's somewhat ridicu
As an American, I agree with the Court. Personally, I agree with Justice
Alito. What a bunch of intolerant 'tards.
-- rick, reflecting on Voltaire
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559604576176323629295598.html?mod=djemalertNEWS#printMode
MARCH 2, 2011, 12:37 P.M. ET
High
Ibuprofen may reduce risk of Parkinson's disease
By Mary Brophy Marcus, USA TODAY
Updated Mar 02, 2011 5:00 PM |
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2011/03/Ibuprofen-may-reduce-risk-of-getting-Parkinsons-disease-by-a-third/44420904/1?csp=34news
Regular use of the common over-the-
Terror Arrest Does Not Justify REAL ID Revival
Posted by Jim Harper
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/terror-arrest-does-not-justify-real-id-revival/
The zeitgeist on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. may be for limited,
constitutional government, but that doesn't mean that big-government
conserva
Documents Reveal TSA Plan To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers
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By ANDY GREENBERG
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/03/02/docs-reveal-tsa-plan-to-body-scan-pedestrians-train-passengers/
A sample streetside scan image
Black Widow attempted New Year Moscow attack but blew herself up by mistake
A "Black Widow" suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on
New Year's Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb
too early, according to Russian security sources.
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This is a rare pure-political item for the list, but one that echoes what I've
been hearing from people of all political orientations in recent months and I
think worthy to pass along. I agree 100% with the sentiment expressed within
and believe this does not present an image of effective lead
Web Video Rivalry Sparks U.S. Probe
By THOMAS CATAN
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703752404576178833590548792.html
The Justice Department is investigating whether a group representing some top
technology firms is unfairly trying to smother a free rival technology for
delivering
More carry-on luggage costing TSA millions a year
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_tsa_baggage_fees
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press –
Thu Mar 3, 4:49 pm ET
WASHINGTON – Choosing to carry your luggage onto a plane instead of checking it
with an airli
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110303134435.htm
Liver, Not Brain, May Be Origin of Alzheimer’s Plaques
ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2011) — Unexpected results from a Scripps Research
Institute and ModGene, LLC study could completely alter scientists' ideas about
Alzheimer's disease -- po
(note the source, take as you will. --- rick)
Saudi king to buy Facebook to end the revolt: report
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=236523
In what is being termed as pure Wall Street Gordon Gecko tactics, King Abdullah
of Saudi Arabia has decided to make an offer of $150 billion
NERC Sets Up Cyber Task Force to Protect Power Grid
http://www.thenewnewinternet.com/2011/03/04/nerc-sets-up-cyber-task-force-to-protect-power-grid/
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation is setting up a
cyber-attack task force to evaluate and help protect the U.S. power grid in th
Anyone who visited GeoHot's PS3 jailbreak website is now part of Sony lawsuit
Andrew Couts Andrew Couts – 42 mins ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110305/tc_digitaltrends/anyonewhovisitedgeohotsps3jailbreakwebsiteisnowpartofsonylawsuit
A US federal magistrate judge has ruled that Sony
>From Lulz to Labor Unions: The Evolution of Anonymous
Mar 4 2011, 12:11 PM ET By Gillian Terzis Comment
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/from-lulz-to-labor-unions-the-evolution-of-anonymous/72001/
The fuzzy goals of the loosely affiliated group Anonymous have changed in the
No, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah did not offer to buy Facebook for $150 billion
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/no-saudi-arabias-king-abdullah-did-not-offer-to-buy-facebook-for-150-billion/
as I said in the original post, "take as you will.":)
A bit early for April Fools, I th
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