Comcast Faces FCC Sanctions for Blocking Web Traffic

Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, violated federal guidelines when it blocked and degraded Web traffic, the head of the Federal Communications Commission will announce Friday." The sanctions would be the first time the commission has come down on an internet...

Internet addressing agency (ICANN) loses its own addresses

Uh oh. Another reminded that on the Internet, things aren't always as they seem."This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it...

Top intelligence official falls into coma

The top spy in the UK, Alex Allan, mysteriously fell into a coma earlier this week and is still at hospital. So far, there is no evidence of foul play. "Britain's top intelligence official is in a coma in a London hospital after collapsing at home, police and his office said...

Immigration marches return with messages aimed at voters

I remember not so long ago when Immigration was the central issue driving the political vehicle of CHANGE. Oh, how true. Things CHANGE! The truth is that when everyone recouperates from this wonderful Black & White campaign that has left the democratic party Black &...

Rogue Dentists on the Loose

Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Ah Yes, Rogue Dentists, Like Dinosaurs and UFO's we've heard of them, but never actually seen one. One envisions a Hard drinkin Leather clad Harley drivin Dentist,...

A Pakistani view of U.S. nuclear weapons

"COLUMNS Columns > A Pakistani view of U.S. nuclear weapons A Pakistani view of U.S. nuclear weapons By Hugh Gusterson | 5 February 2008 "The [U.S.] Air Force has...

The Bible: Indecent in Hong Kong?

An anonymous group of online petitioners is moving to classify the Bible as "obscene", apparently as a response to the uproar over a  sex column in the Chinese University's student news magazine."A debate...

Iraq link to campus killer Cho

"THE sister of the gunman responsible for the deadliest shooting rampage in modern US history works as a contractor for a State Department office that oversees billions of dollars in American aid for Iraq." What I found most compelling in this post were the comments...

Suspicious objects found throughout Boston after morning bomb scare

Anybody out there who has a foto of this?"Investigators found a device on the BU Bridge today "similar to the Sullivan Square" package that forced the closure this morning of northbound Interstate 93, said Jennifer Mieth, spokeswoman for State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan, whose...

CIA, PENTAGON CHECK US SUSPECTS RECORDS

"• Records legally obtained without a judge's approval or grand jury subpoena • It is unusual for Pentagon, CIA to investigate domestic cases • Move called part of a post-9/11 strategy to be aggressive in intelligence-gathering WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon and to a...

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