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SPAM: We Could be Heroes, Just for One Day 1

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Tuesday May 06 2008, @06:22PM

David Gergen on Fox "news" with Greta Van Susteren: "Well, it was a stunning backdrop. I don't -- you know, Greta, I've watched the choreography of presidential events for a long time and participated in a few. I can't remember an event as spectacular, as stunning as this, as impressive as this, since Richard Nixon returned from China 30 years ago."

Poll: Wackiest Conspiracy Theory? 2

Submitted by crimson30 on Friday December 28 2007, @07:45PM

crimson30 writes "Poll: Wackiest Conspiracy Theory?

Fed/Internat'l Bankers
Moon Landing Hoax
Roswell
AIDS hoax
9/11 "Truth"
The Illuminati
Cowboy Neal Coverup"

New Jersey Denies Internet from Sex Offenders-> 3

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Friday December 28 2007, @11:45AM

eldavojohn writes "New Jersey just passed legislation making it illegal for sex offenders to use the internet. NJ congresswoman Linda D. Greenstein said, "When Megan's Law was enacted, few could envision a day when a sex offender hiding behind a fake screen name would be a mouse-click away from new and unwitting victims. Sex offenders cannot be given an opportunity to abuse the anonymity the Internet can provide as a means of opening a door to countless new potential victims." While they still can search for jobs, this is a major expansion over the prior legislation which barred them from social networking sites like facebook or myspace."
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Obama backs Network Neutrality-> 0

Submitted by on Monday December 24 2007, @06:20AM

An anonymous reader writes "Barack Obama, in a speech at Google (youtube link), said that he would "take a back seat to no one" in his support of network neutrality, and said he intends to double Federal funding for science and to make the R&D tax credit permanent. Could Obama be the first mainstream candidate to start understanding geek issues?"
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Clinton Promises Vote Against Gamers-> 0

Submitted by

thefickler

on Saturday December 22 2007, @05:26PM

thefickler writes "Hilary Clinton was the spearhead behind the ill-fated Family Entertainment Protection Act in 2005. In spite of the failure of that unnecessary and frivolous bill, Clinton is still staunchly in the corner of censorship, this time targeting gamers and fans of anime and other animation and cartoon formats."
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Sonic advertising - like it or not-> 1

Submitted by

newtley

on Saturday December 15 2007, @12:42PM

newtley writes "Advertisers are determined to get into your head by one means or another, and Holosonic Research Labs has found yet another way of invading your privacy in the name of forcing you pay attention. You're walking down a street in New York when all of a sudden, 'Who's that?' — whispers a woman's voice. 'Who's There?' No. You weren't having a schizoid episode. You were being subjected to 'sound in a narrow beam, just like light' without your permission. It was coming at you from a rooftop speaker 7 stories up. Don't want to be bombarded by sonic ads? Tough. Wear ear-plugs."
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Brain grown in jar pilots F-22 sim-> 5

Submitted by NJ Hewitt on Saturday December 15 2007, @08:40AM

NJ Hewitt writes ""Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to pilot an F-22 jet simulator." The brain, with neurons connected to 60 electrodes, at first had no ability to pilot the fighter jet, but slowly learned and can now reliably navigate through even hurricane-force winds in the simulator."
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Iran builds supercomputer from banned AMD parts 2

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Monday December 10 2007, @08:25PM

Stony Stevenson writes "Iranian scientists claim to have used 216 microprocessors made by AMD to build the country's most powerful supercomputer, despite a ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to the Middle Eastern nation. Scientists at the Iranian High Performance Computing Research Center at the country's Amirkabir University of Technology said they used a Linux-cluster architecture in building the system of Opteron processors. The supercomputer has a theoretical peak performance of 860 giga-flops, the posting said. The disclosure, made in an undated posting on Amirkabir's Web site, brought an immediate response Monday from AMD, which said it has never authorized shipments of products either directly or indirectly to Iran or any other embargoed country."

Icelandian calls White House, labelled a terrorist-> 3

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2007, @07:47PM

An anonymous reader writes "A 16-year-old boy in Iceland called a secret government phone number, which he thought was Bush's private number, and posed as the president of Iceland. After passing some impromptu security questions, such as President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson's birth date (which he answered with Wikipedia), Bush's secretary told him to expect a call back. Instead, police surrounded his house and interrogated him on where he got the number, threatening to put him on a no-fly list if he didn't tell. He claims he can't remember where he got the number, but says "I must have gotten it from a friend when I was about 11 or 12.""
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How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 03 2007, @07:59PM

An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this year, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban humans on Mars at NASA: "Provided, That none of the funds under this heading shall be used for any research, development, or demonstration activities related exclusively to the human exploration of Mars." The bill is held up in Congress and the anti-Mars language may be taken out. But in case the Mars ban becomes law, the Space Review has a handy guide on how NASA can beat the ban and continue its research and development without breaking the law."