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Submission + - Senate Passes Telecom Immunity bill (eff.org) 2

Submitted by zehnra
zehnra writes: The U.S. Senate this afternoon passed the FISA Amendments Act, broadly expanding the president's warrantless surveillance authority and unconstitutionally granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the president's illegal domestic wiretapping program. The House of Representatives passed the same bill last month, and President Bush is expected to sign the legislation into law shortly.
Transportation

Submission + - Southwest Airlines' Secrets for Success

Submitted by
Pickens
Pickens writes: "The major carriers have consumed perhaps $100 billion in capital during the past decade, while Southwest Airlines continues to be profitable with about $3 billion in cash on hand and $600 million in available credit. What does Southwest know that no one else in airlines does? Some of its secrets: Unlike the network carriers, Southwest flies just one plane type, the Boeing 737 series saving Southwest millions in maintenance costs. Southwest keeps it basic with just one class of service, no assigned seats, and there have never been meals, just beverages and snacks. Rampaging fuel prices now represent around 40 percent of an airline's cost but Southwest Airlines has been ahead of the curve saving an estimated $3.5 billion since 1999 with an aggressive fuel-hedging program. History shows that Southwest has comfortably survived every airline-industry downturn, then grown rapidly and profited hugely when the business cycle turns."
Earth

Submission + - SPAM: Scrap metal prices clean up landfills

Submitted by
Corrupt
Corrupt writes: "Skyrocketing costs of scrap metal have created a silver or should we say steel lining to economic and environmental woes. Collecting scrap not only brings in extra money, but also encourages citizens to clean up unsightly refuse.

The effects are magnified in Eastern Kentucky, a region with a chronic problem of improper disposal or no disposal at all of junk cars and appliances. Now, the prospect of getting fast cash is motivating a mass clean-up of litter, traditionally the work of prison inmates and environmentalists."
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Mozilla

Submission + - Upgrade to Firefox 3? Sure, but quietly (kingofgng.com)

Submitted by
KingofGnG
KingofGnG writes: "Gone by the mass hysteria of the launch period of new version of the Mozilla browser, the world record of the 8 millions of downloads in a single day (8,002,530, to be accurate) and the growing number of the above said downloads that stands still to camp as a trophy on the Spread Firefox homepage, I think it would be perhaps useful to calm down and reason on why maybe it's the case, for who makes use of the web not only because it's "cool" and chic, to wait and ponder before enthusiastically embracing the third main release of the red panda browser. Story continues here."

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