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Strudelkugel writes:
News outlets are reporting "British trust in the way government stores and secures vital personal information was sorely tested Wednesday after it emerged that sensitive data on about 25 million Britons (almost half the population) was lost in the mail in an unprecedented security blunder. Computer files on 7.25 million families — everyone with children under 16 — have been missing ever since they were sent on two compact discs through the domestic mail system a month ago by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs." The choice quote: "If you centralize data, what will fail is the carbon-based life form (humans), not the technology," says Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, a watchdog group.
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thinkerx writes:
Senator Barack Obama has unveiled an education proposal that would reform no Child Left Behind, fund Universal pre-K and increase math and science education. As Election Geek points out his plan would be paid for by delaying the NASA Constellation program which is in support of bringing Americans back to the moon and is the stepping stone to human Mars exploration. With China, India, Russia and Japan all setting their sites on space and moon exploration a five year delay would eliminate any competitive advantage the U.S. has in space exploration.
Are we looking at a return to troubled times for NASA?
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Thanshin writes:
Tiny mobile-integrated projectors are almost here.
Cameras had quite an impact. Video recording plus YouTube makes news every day. Do you imagine the effect of everybody having a mobile projector?
What will the MPAA (and it's thousand young) do when people start projecting unreleased movies anywhere?
Can you imagine someone watching a pr0n movie projected in a bus wall?
Will spammers walk around projecting viagra advertising?
http://technabob.com/blog/2007/03/26/ti-working-on-worlds-smallest-dlp-projectors/
http://www.microvision.com/
http://technabob.com/blog/2006/07/03/ultra-mini-projector-with-frickin-laser-beams/
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/projector
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/20/oculons-hikari-pro920-might-be-the-worlds-tiniest-projector/
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Thanshin writes:
In the past, many judges have dismissed the 2nd Amendment as archaic and limited to protecting a state's authority to maintain "a well-regulated militia," a phrase from the opening clause of the amendment. The 2nd Amendment's full text is: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-scotus21nov21,1,4804010.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage