The competition for the 100 $ 1Laptop per child is here for Great Britain. £ 199 the laptop is designed for children's interacting classrooms accross the UK. First time we see a developing world product transfer to...
Ohio's electronic voting machines, made by don't-call-them-Diebold, are broken, and won't be fixed by Election Day. Does that sound right to you? What do you think of a company that can't fix its software by...
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"y Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Reprints ShareDiggFacebookMixxYahoo! BuzzPermalink By BRIAN STELTER Published: July 21, 2008...
"As part of a new regime of financial disclosure laws implemented by Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Legislature, many state and local public officials in Louisiana will have to report certain financial and government contracting information next spring. Those who desired to avoid...
British researchers have invented something out of Star Trek: a printer that can print out plastic pieces of itself, that can be assembled into a complete unit...that can then print out pieces of itself. It's a...
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In a major concerted effort from the industry all three big intertent service providers have agreed to block hosting & access to child pornography sites. Industry has been divided on this for a long time....
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The boy has not been identified " A San Jose home day care center is under state investigation after a 2-year-old toddler accidentally strangled himself. The string of a hooded sweatshirt the boy was wearing apparently got caught between boards of a play structure while he...
The troubled historical relationship between China and Japan appears to be preventing Japan from sending aid to China for earthquake relief efforts."A frenzied cyberspace backlash on China’s notoriously active...
"The average person in Canada is now more likely to be a victim of crime resulting from contact with the Internet or someone from the Internet than other crime activity found on the street, or occurring at home, according to the new survey."
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I guess this is a good thing. I can't seem to get into Battlestar Galactica but it is clearly a quality program. Hopefully, this will be to. Even if it's not, it got to be better than the "Attack of...
OPINION: We are sleepwalking into the ever tightening trap of an all-pervasive surveillance society; our own often baseless anxieties set out like bait within cages to trick us to enter, we pull the steely doors...
And here I thought just walking the streets was cold! It was -15 today, I can't imagine how cold that water is!"Canada is brutally cold in the winter. This weekend Toronto had one massive winter storm. 30cm (about a...
The notorious Vladuz, wanted by the FBI and Romanian authorities in connection with hacking internet sites, fraud and other misdemeanours, is still on the run, but how many Vladuz's are there?"Thursday October 25 2007 Hacker taunts eBay with attacks
The auction...
South Carolina mom who trolls the jihad websites using a pseudonym often finds items after word begins to spread over the Arabic
forums of an imminent release. Being fluent in Arabic, the self-employed
terror-analyst...
The U.K. is cracking down on troop blogging. Will the U.S. follow?"The Ministry of Defence has introduced new guidelines to prevent military personnel talking about their experiences as members of the Armed...
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