DNA and Databases

DeoxyriboNucleic Acid or DNA put simply is a double stranded helix ladder structure in which each step [rung] is connected by either one of four bolts [bases], they being adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C) and their choice along with their rung spacing...

Court Ruling May Impede Thousands of Ohio Voters

Ohio could become the Florida of the 2008 presidential vote, with the disagreements over provisional ballots coming to a head."More than 200,000 registered Ohio voters may be blocked from casting regular ballots on Election Day because of a federal appeals court decision on...

Why "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" is wrong

I saw this while I was strolling through reddit, this is a great article for the next time someone says: "If you've got nothing to hide, why do you care if someone is watching?""Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with...

Online Snooping Gets Creepy

"An estimated 30% of all Web searches are aimed at finding people, according to industry statistics, and upstarts like PeekYou, Pipl, Spock, and Wink are vying for a piece of this potentially huge market. These free sites work by scouring the Web for any virtual footprints...

Microsoft & Google exchange remarks on enterprise search

"In San Francisco, on Wednesday, officials of Microsoft and Google traded comparisons of their project search products to their rival’s in a technology conference. In order to emphasize that it was all in fun, Nitin Mangtani, lead product manager for Google's...

Seekr Search Engine Follows the Political Money

"If you're a regular visitor to our site you noticed sometime last week, on the left side of our home page, our latest widget - we've dubbed it Sunlight Seekr. It's the first step to a one click search engine that culls through multiple databases. We put it up last week to...

Drug Felons Illegally Receiving Welfare Benefits

"State officials say a preliminary investigation has found that more than 1,000 convicted drug felons in Marion County may be illegally receiving state welfare benefits. Convicted drug felons are not allowed to receive welfare benefits. The recent investigation by the state...

Islamist website presents "Technical Mujahid Magazine"

"On November 28, 2006, the Al-Fajr Information Center released the first issue of the Technical MujahidMagazine. The magazine discusses various technical topics, such as security for electronic data and databases, using GPS, and video editing and production. Some articles are...

Election Fraud -- The Crisis Papers

"In each case the tallied outcomes favored the incumbent, George W. Bush. The odds for such an occurrence is one in 250 million for this to have occurred by chance."