United States Stories for 2008

Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? 877
HP Accused of Illegal Exportation To Iran 287
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax 713
FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge 222
How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? 154
Matt Blaze Examines Communications Privacy 44
Bush's Electronic Archives Threaten To Swamp National Archives 185
DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders 248
Universal Broadband Plan Calls For $44 Billion 414
NSA's History of Communications Security — For Your Eyes, Too 52
US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans 133
City In Georgia Planning Virtual World For Civic Interaction 39
IRS Doesn't Check Cyberaudit Logs 78
Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President 601
Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug 175
Report Rips Government Wireless Network Effort 54
Ask Cybersecurity Commission Chairman Jim Langevin About US Cybersecurity Plans 92
Sony Hit With $1M Penalty For COPPA Violations 85
Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System 436
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist As Energy Secretary 498
Musicians Protest Use Of Songs By US Jailers 210
FCC Commissioner Lauds DRM, ISP Filtering 217
Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity 409
Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security 459
US Tests New Missile Defense 278
Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities 375
Who Protects the Internet? 177
Copper Thieves Jeopardize US Infrastructure 578
DMCA Exemptions Desired To Hack iPhones, Remix DVDs 188
Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles 129
US Has Been In Recession Since December 2007 540
Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms 420
FCC Considering Free Internet For USA 502
Obama Team Considers Cancellation of Ares, Orion 870
Who Will Obama Choose As Copyright Czar? 174
FAA Greenlights Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control System 138
Lori Drew Trial Results In 3 Misdemeanor Convictions 568
Houses With Tails 307
US Army To Invest $50 Million In Game Development 68
Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video 149
Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System 169
Chinese Hacking of American Military Networks On the Rise 205
After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" 430
Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media 295
FCC Publishes "White Spaces" Rules 63
Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection" 412
Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid 337
Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science? 1563
Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China 278
New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations 331
How To Build a Web 2.0 Government? 249
Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team 179
US Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use 374
FTC Wants To Straighten Out IP Law 97
US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests 55
The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections 223
Obama Launches Change.gov 1486
Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads 402
Bill Joy For New National CTO Post? 393
US Army To Push X-Files Tech Development 139
Obama, McCain Campaigns Both Hacked, Files Compromised 255
Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship 426
Barack Obama Wins US Presidency 3709
FCC Approves Unlicensed Use of White-Space Spectrum 138
Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic 68
Discuss the US Presidential Election 1912
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education 1515
How We Used To Vote 517
Judge Orders White House To Produce Wiretap Memos 178
How To Supplement Election Coverage? 241
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care 1270
Examining the Role of Video Games In the US Election 81
Presidential Youth Debate Answers and Details Now Online 74
Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents 73
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA 420
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War 1211
Can the US Stop the Illegal Export of Its Technology? 351
RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional 281
Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? 396
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy 2369
US District Court Says Calculating a Hash Value = Search 623
10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web" 205
Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty 565
WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes 900
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber" 793
US Army Sees Twitter As Possible Terrorist "Operation Tool" 320
Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos 238
White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches 94
$29M To Start US Satellite Protection Program 74
ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" 979
Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards 172
Greenspan Tells Congress Bad Data Hurt Wall Street 496
US's First Internet Votes To Be Cast This Friday 143
Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab 272
IRS Rolls Out Risky Tax Processing Systems 66
FBI Says Dark Market Sting Netted 56 Arrests 130
FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity 134
Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law 459
Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online 349
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit 696
Court Rules That Palin Must Save Yahoo Emails 412
Feds Consider H-1B Changes After Uncovering Fraud 254
FCC Report Supports Use of White Spaces For Wireless 143
How US Schools' Culture Stifles Math Achievement 888
Government Begins Securing Root Zone File 198
US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers 272
Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents 42
NSA Whistleblowers Reveal Extent of Eavesdropping 222
Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US? 940
Ars Examines Outlandish "Lost To Piracy" Claims and Figures 380
Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live 289
Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List 426
Mathematicians Deconstruct US News College Rankings 161
DMCA Exemption Time 151
Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6 182
Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7 242
$700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law 857
Was the Yahoo-Google Deal a Ploy To Weaken Yahoo? 82
Viewing Tool Provides Scrutiny of Debate Footage 144
US House Adopts New Third-Party Web Site Rules 49
Two Bills of Interest Advancing In Congress 129
US House Limits Constituent Emails 581
US Senate Passes PRO-IP Act 212
How Close Were US Presidential Elections? 971
White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page 323
Jack Thompson Disbarred 522
State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names 505
US Responsible For the Majority of Cyber Attacks 205
Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector 580
Unemployment Hits New High In Silicon Valley 338
Nevada Businesses Must Start Encrypting E-Mail By Oct. 1st 178
US Congress Funds Laser Weapons 423
Feds Tighten DNS Security On .Gov 140
Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions 940
Palin Email Hacker Found 767
Voting Machines Routinely Failing Nationwide 237
Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com 461
EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and VP Cheney 267
Report is Critical of US For Dumping E-Waste Overseas 152
"Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email 1733
New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses 288
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US 563
AT&T Buries ToS Changes In 2500-Page Guide 99
Advanced Surveillance Tech for Unmanned Drones Credited In Iraq 283
DOJ Needs Warrant To Track Your Cell's GPS History 122
High-Speed Broadband Making Headway In the US 193
USDOJ Sniffing Google Antitrust Suit, Hires Ex-Disney Lawyer 241
Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit 259
In Leaked Email, NASA Chief Vents On Shuttle Program's End 424
NYT Links Convention Videos, Speech Transcripts 34
Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues 1115
CIA, FBI Push Social Networking for Spies 138
FCC Aims To End Debate With Wireless Tests 121
Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted 481
Laboring Longer a Growing Trend For Americans 603
Scammers Riding the Gustav Wave 140
Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire 550
Appeals Court Rules US Can Block Mad Cow Testing 455
Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks 152
US No Longer the World's Internet Hub 433
McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate 1813
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research 460
State Cannot Force Removal of SSNs From Privacy Advocate's Site 262
NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse 1331
The Year of the Political Blogger 67
As of October, FBI To Allow Warrantless Investigations 574
Comcast Has 30 Days To 'Fess Up About P2P Throttling 262
People On No-Fly List Can Sue In District Court 241
Lessig On McCain's Technology Platform 156
Judge Rules Man Cannot Be Forced To Decrypt HD 775
Dell Loses Bid To Trademark "Cloud Computing" 146
Doubts On Yahoo's Human Rights Code of Conduct 100
Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction 442
McCain Releases Technology Platform 479
Time Warner Cable Box Rental Inspired Antitrust Lawsuit 291
30% of Americans Want "Balanced" Blogging 720
Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? 868
Why Shoot Down a Satellite? Analyzing an Analysis 238
Economic Gridlock – the Invisible Cost of IP Law 246
Massachusetts Sues to Halt Defcon Subway Hacking Talk 270
Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year 460
Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes 341
McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments 375
FISA and Border Searches of Laptops 421
SEC Lets Companies Disclose Via Websites, Blogs 71
Dell Tries To Trademark "Cloud Computing" 130
White House Briefed On "Potential For Life" On Mars 610
Senate Passes Bill Targeting College Piracy 157
DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely 1123
NASA Turns 50 160
Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe 1003
NOAA Requires License For Photos of the Earth 311
PRO-IP and PIRATE Acts Fused Into New Bill 324
COPA Suffers Yet Another Court Defeat 322
FBI Fights Testing For False DNA Matches 411
USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" 429
US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement 613
The Push For Quotas For Women In Science 896
Disgruntled Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer System 1082
Cablecos, Telcos Working To Strengthen the Duopoly 113
ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA 542
Internet Based Political "Meta-Party" For Massachusetts 227
Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law 1574
Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs 233
Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill 1088
Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet 561
Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions 202
DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers 673
Congress Tries To Strip Power From Anti-Wiretap Judge 332
US Justice Dept. Sued For Cellular Tracking Information 75
There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute 395
Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts 171
12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports 236
Lt. Col. John Bircher Answers Your Questions 232
Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted 282
Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" 593
Justice Dept To Investigate Google-Yahoo Deal 105
TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 331
Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame 348
Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move 363
Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate 543
FBI's New Eye Scan Database Raising Eyebrows 229
Feds Say They're Ready For Monday's IPv6 Deadline 120
US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects 481
Telecom Immunity Flip-Floppers Got More Telecom Money 277
Senate Delays Telecom Immunity Vote Until After July Recess 148
Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals 2221
White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail 497
Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border 526
Higher Oil Prices Are Starting To Bring Jobs Home 777
FCC Dealt Setback In BPL Push 177
Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity 332
Digital Models Not Subject To Copyright 131
US House Approves Over $300 Million For Science Agencies 176
FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity 465
New FISA Bill Would Grant Telcoms Immunity; Vote Is Tomorrow 496
McCain Backs Nuclear Power 1563
Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual 999
UCITA By the Back Door 174
White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records 243
MPAA Wants To Prevent Recording Movies On DVRs 225
SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus 1065
Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org 341
Ask Lt. Col. John Bircher About Cyber Warfare Concepts 236
China Says It Lacks Skills To Hack US Systems 507
CIA Details Its Wikipedia-Like Tools For Analysts 164
Porn Found On L.A. Obscenity Case Judge's Website 393
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush 1657
Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn 572
TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID 734

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