[Medianews] "The Supreme Court, Personalities and Rivalries that Define America" By Jeffrey Rosen

Excerpt from EPIC Alert 15.22 http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_15.22.html === [7] EPIC Bookstore: "The Supreme Court" === The Supreme Court, Personalities

[Medianews] AVG update cripples some Windows XP systems (CNET)

AVG update cripples some Windows XP systems (CNET) http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cnet/2008/tc_cnet/8301100931009387583 On Tuesday an update for AVG 8 suggested that a Windows system file is a Trojan horse, and users who delete the file form the system could leave their Windows XP systems

[Medianews] Phoenix Lander silent; Mars mission over, NASA says

Phoenix Lander silent; Mars mission over, NASA says http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/11/10/nasa.mars.lander/index.html?eref=rss_tech (CNN) -- A dust storm and the onset of Martian winter have brought the Phoenix Mars Lander's mission to an end, NASA announced Monday. "We are actually ceasing

[Medianews] NASA looking for next-generation Hubble

NASA looking for next-generation Hubble Scientists proposing key space science missions for the 2020s By Irene Klotz updated 3:55 p.m. CT, Tues., Nov. 11, 2008 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27666996/ Black holes or extrasolar planets? A look for dark energy or back to the beginning of time? These

[Medianews] A computer 55,000 times faster than your PC

A computer 55,000 times faster than your PC ‘Jaguar’ will be used to research global climate change, space matter http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27661196/ KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - How fast is the new supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory? If everyone in the world performed one mathematical calc

[Medianews] Hawaii Switching to Digital TV Early to Avoid Conflict With Endangered Bird's Nesting Season

Hawaii Switching to Digital TV Early to Avoid Conflict With Endangered Bird's Nesting Season http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=6225540 Hawaii will switch to digital TV faster than the rest of the country to make way for an endangered, volcano-dwelling bird. Most of the state will s

[Medianews] Dish Debuts First Digital-to-Analog Converter With DVR

Dish Debuts First Digital-to-Analog Converter With DVR Product Will Be Available For Preorder Nov. 19 By Linda Moss Multichannel News 11/11/2008 9:45:00 AM http://www.multichannel.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA6613610 Dish Network’s DTVPal DVR, a digital-to-analog converter box

[Medianews] Economic woes hit science departments

Economic woes hit science departments By Michelle Kessler USA Today Posted at 09:54 AM/ET, November 11, 200 http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2008/11/economic-woes-h.html The economic downturn is already taking a big toll on college science departments. Washington D.C.'s Georgetown Unive

[Medianews] Networks seem to have skipped fall season

Networks seem to have skipped fall season By Robert Bianco USA TODAY Nov 10, 2008 http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2008-11-10-fall-season_N.htm For the networks, it has been a no-fun fall. Once again, the five broadcast networks made it into November without one breakout, game-ch

[Medianews] Flawed AVG antivirus update cripples Windows XP PCs

November 11, 2008 Flawed AVG antivirus update cripples Windows XP PCs By GREGG KEIZER IDG http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2008/11/11/11idg-Flawed-AVG-anti.html?pagewanted=print A flawed signature update to AVG Technologies' antivirus software over the weekend crippled some Windows XP PCs

[Medianews] Can Fossil Fuels Get More Efficient With Solar Thermal?

November 11, 2008 Can Fossil Fuels Get More Efficient With Solar Thermal? By DAVID EHRLICH GigaOm http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2008/11/11/11gigaom-can-fossil-fuels-get-more-efficient-with-solar-th-15096.html?pagewanted=print Can the fossil fuel industry benefit from clean power? It’s

[Medianews] Paying for Ads When Craigslist Is Free

November 11, 2008, 3:30 pm Paying for Ads When Craigslist Is Free By Claire Cain Miller NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/paying-for-ads-when-craigslist-is-free/?pagemode=print Craigslist offers listings for everything from apartments to lawyers to dates. It is free for users t

[Medianews] NY Times Executive Resigns to Lead NPR

November 12, 2008 Executive at The Times Resigns to Lead NPR By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/business/media/12npr.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print Vivian Schiller, who heads the online operations of The New York Times, will leave the paper to become the pres

[Medianews] Hacker Tool Targeting MS08-067 Vulnerability

Hacker Tool Targeting MS08-067 Vulnerability 11.11.2008 - 9:00 AM Websense Security Labs has noticed a special hacker tool in China. In the past few weeks, Microsoft has announced and released a patch for the MS08-067 vulnerability, and a hacker tool named "wolfteeth bot catcher" has been wide

[Medianews] Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work on Red Planet

Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work on Red Planet http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20081110.html WASHINGTON -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months. As anticipated, seasonal decline in sunshine at the robot's

[Medianews] Blogger jailed for 20 years over poem that mocked Burmese dictator

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5129509.ece A young blogger and a writer who disguised an attack on the country's dictator in the form of a love poem have received heavy jail sentences, in the latest blow to opponents of Burma's military dictatorship. Nay Myo Kyaw, a 28-

[Medianews] NASA Surprised by Unexpected Meteor Outburst

NASA Surprised by Unexpected Meteor Outburst By SPACE.com Staff http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/08-september-perseids.html posted: 11 November 2008 07:39 am ET When NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke arrived at the Marshall Space Flight Center and checked his email Sept. 9, 2008, he was very

[Medianews] NASA fears it has lost Mars probe

posted by Mark Matthews on Nov 10, 2008 6:57:30 PM http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2008/11/nasa-f ears-it-h.html WASHINGTON -- The Phoenix Mars Lander is dead and NASA scientists said Monday that they don't expect the golf cart-size probe to rise from its ashes. Agency s

[Medianews] A Quiet $140 Billion Windfall For U.S. Banks

A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy Treasury Department issued a little-noticed five-sentence document that gave American banks as much as $140 billion. By Amit R. Paley Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 10, 2008; A01

[Medianews] In Crisis, Remote Access Via Satellite Network Relief Kit

November 11, 2008 In Crisis, Remote Access By JULIE BICK NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/giving/11NET.html?ref=technology&pagewanted=print RUI LOPES’S first impression of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, after the 2004 tsunami was chaos. Bone-jarringly rough roads led to a hastily assembled

[Medianews] Book Publishers Take Leaps Into Digital

November 10, 2008 Book Publishers Take Leaps Into Digital By ERIC PFANNER NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/worldbusiness/10kindle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&pagewanted=print PARIS — Long after other media joined the digital revolution, book publishers clung to the