Google to bolster privacy of online searchers
From Breitbart.com Google said on Wednesday it would begin routinely purging its data banks of information that identifies search engine …
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Dems abandon war authority provision
From AP Washington – Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush’s authority to take military …
The Marching Morons
SF author Ben Bova presents an essay on the prescience of science fiction, with particular emphasis on societal trends toward a …
Ron Paul to announce ’08 presidential bid
Limited government advocate, strict constitutionalist, and the tax-payers’ best friend; what’s not to like? Representative Paul (R) of Texas faces …
Child labor: a not-so-secret agent behind the “low, low prices”
From The New York Times CHIMALTENANGO, March 11 — Work starts early for the people of the Guatemalan countryside, sometimes …
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Tell me this isn’t amazing…
CGI artists routinely remake reality these days, but it takes an insanely skilled craftsperson to get human faces exactly right. …
Boo hoo: Credit Card Executives Tough Out Senate Hearing
Disclosure Statements Written at “27th-Grade Level” By Joseph S. Enoch ConsumerAffairs.Com Congressional Correspondent March 7, 2007 In what played out …
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Israel unveils portable hunter-killer robot
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — An Israeli defense firm on Thursday unveiled a portable robot billed as being capable of entering most …
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Sony’s alternate universe for PS3
This sort of techniverse has already played a minor part in the first book; Alternia is represented there as a …
Disdain for veterans speaks louder than “support our troops” rhetoric
This deplorable situation took decades to develop, and politicizing it won’t resolve the disgrace. That being said, the current administration …
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TIA is coming back, if it was ever gone at all
The Washington Times reports today what somehow, somewhere we already knew. Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system …
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Gates warns on US immigration curbs
By Kevin Allison in San Francisco Published: March 7 2007 19:26 | Last updated: March 7 2007 19:26 Bill Gates, …
