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submission
Jefferey King writes:
According to an MSNBC article published earlier today, many States are considering the creation of another type of Online Offenders Registry — one for anyone involved in the "cooking" or dealing of methamphetamine. Online Offenders Registries in the United States were previously restricted to sex offenders, namely, rapists and pedophiles. The question is, "What's the point, and why just meth?"
52268
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PreacherTom writes:
Though we may expect it of late from such companies as Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, it isn't only the usual suspects who are tossing their hats into the gaming ring. Enter Hewlett-Packard, who hopes to leverage the newfound graphics muscle they gained during the Voodoo PC acquisition into new directions. Preliminary experiments have testers in England freeing Anne Boleyn from the Tower of London on their iPAQ's. "Sitting in front of a TV is boring," says HP VP Philip McKinney. "Gaming is the new high-definition experience. Voodoo offers HP what an F1 racing team does for a carmaker."
52266
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nickd writes:
Having recently being passed in the Senate by only 2 votes, the bill has now been passed in the House of Representatives by 82-62. The amendment that was seeking to prevent stem cells being extracted from the eggs of aborted late term female foetuses has also been voted down. The changes will allow scientists to create and use embryos up to 14 days old for research.
52264
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PreacherTom writes:
Growing strife inside Yahoo! has erupted into a sweeping management and organizational shakeup. CEO Terry Semel announced yesterday that the company will be reordered into three groups: one to focus on advertisers and publishers, another to focus on Yahoo!'s base of over 500 million users, and a third on technology and development. While Semel denies layoffs are in the future, there will be replacements in the upper echelon for the world's most popular website. The changes, the most extensive at Yahoo in more than five years, cap months of speculation about how it would respond to slowing sales growth, a slumping stock price, and a steady stream of executive departures in the past year.
