California Selling Social Security Numbers
Local Lawmaker Wants To Stop The State’s Four-Year-Long Practice. Today, a Sacramento lawmaker showed how you could go to the …
Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One
The “wisdom of crowds” is a popular web 2.0 buzzword. At its most basic, the term means that two heads …
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New Telescope Discovers Energy Particles Flying around the chromosphere
“Everything we thought we knew about X-ray images of the Sun is now out of date,” says Leon Golub from …
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FBI Decides Due Process Is Unnecessary
The FBI apparently does not believe in due process when gathering phone records in terrorism cases. The agency has a …
The Runes of Eris
This current book has had a number of titles since it was first “finished” in 2004. The title in the …
John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies
By Steve Lohr, New York Times March 19, 2007 John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that …
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Photocopiers: The newest ID theft threat
Newer models have hard drives that record what has been duplicated from Gregg Keizer March 14, 2007 (Computerworld) — Photocopiers …
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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Domestic Spying Too Secret Even for the Courts
AT&T and the government tell an appeals court that the case against the telecom for allegedly helping the government spy …
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80% of Federal Agencies Flunk E-FOIA Test
According a report published today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, only one in five government agencies …
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 …
DOJ report finds Patriot Act ripe for abuse
A new Department of Justice report finds evidence that the FBI violated the law dozens of times in its use …
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