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Comment Re:Duh. (Score 3, Insightful) 1601

by TomHandy (#25706599) Attached to: Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign
"In what respect" doesn't really fly though. If her issue was that she didn't know which iteration of the Bush Doctrine Gibson was referring to, the general response would be "That term has had multiple definitions - which one do you mean?". By asking "In what respect", she seems to more clearly have been trying to squeeze out some additional information so she could then give her response.

The issue with the Bush Doctrine isn't so much that it isn't well-defined as much as that there have been multiple Bush Doctrines...... I'd give her credit if she simply asked which one Gibson meant, but she didn't, which indicates that she didn't know what he was really talking about, and certainly that she didn't seem to be aware that there were multiple definitions for it.
Privacy

Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live 289

Posted by samzenpus from the eye-in-the-sky dept.
BountyX writes "While America's attention has shifted to the economic meltdown and the presidential race between corporate favorites John McCain and Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Applications Office (NAO) 'will proceed with the first phase of a controversial satellite-surveillance program, even though an independent review found the department hasn't yet ensured the program will comply with privacy laws.' NAO will coordinate how domestic law enforcement and 'disaster relief' agencies such as FEMA use satellite imagery intelligence (IMINT) generated by US spy satellites. Based on available evidence, hard to come by since these programs are classified 'above top secret,' the technological power of these military assets are truly terrifying."
Science

Huge Reservoir Discovered Beneath Asia 273

Posted by samzenpus from the city-of-R'lyeh dept.
anthemaniac writes "Seismic observations reveal a huge reservoir of water in Earth's mantle beneath Asia. It's actually rock saturated with water, but it's an ocean's worth of water ... as much as is in the whole Arctic Ocean. How did it get there? A slab of water-laden crust sank, and the water evaporated out when it was heated, and then it was trapped, the thinking goes. The discovery fits neatly with the region's heavy seismic activity and fits neatly with the idea that the planet's moving crustal plates are lubricated with water."
Democrats

Submission + - Obama Boosts Broadband in 2008 Announcement Speech

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Arlen writes: "As many as 17,000 people (according to police estimates) watched Senator Barack Obama officially announce his candidacy for President in Springfield Illinois today, he mentioned several things that Slashdotters will be interested in. The Senator said he wanted to free America from what he called "the tyranny of oil," and went on to promote alternative energy sources such as ethanol (a big political winner in the midwest where he announced, because of all the corn farmers). He also talked about using science and technology to help those with chronic diseases, which is likely to have been an allusion to his staunch support of stem cell research. Perhaps most of interest to Slashdotters however is that Obama made the following statement halfway through his speech: "Let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America. We can do that." Like nearly everything in his speech, this was met with robust applause from the crowd. You can watch a video of the entire speech at Obama's website."

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