Nov 19, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Gouverneur Times: GOUVERNEUR, NY - The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines. Cathleen Rogers, the Democratic Elections Commissioner in ...
Continue ReadingNov 18, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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Continue ReadingNov 16, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CARACAS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing. Chavez, who has asked Venezuelans to take three-minute showers to save water, said the Cubans ...
Continue ReadingNov 13, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
LOS ANGELES (AP) - It turns out there's plenty of water on the moon—at least near the lunar south pole, scientists said Friday. "Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," said Anthony Colaprete, a principal project investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center. The discovery came from ...
Continue ReadingNov 8, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - The alleged Fort Hood shooter apparently attended the same Virginia mosque as two Sept. 11 hijackers in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. Whether the Fort Hood shooter associated with the hijackers is something the FBI will probably look into, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on ...
Continue ReadingNov 6, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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Continue ReadingNov 2, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Discovery.Com: Oct. 29, 2009 -- NASA is stepping up its space radiation studies with a round of experiments that for the first time in decades will use monkeys as subjects. The point of the experiments is to understand how the harsh radioactive environment of space affects human bodies and behavior and what countermeasures can be developed to ...
Continue ReadingOct 30, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
CNN: The next time you see a motorist obliviously straddling two lanes, don't fault bad driving, but genetics. In a study published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex, researcher Steven Cramer found that people with a certain gene variant performed more than 30 percent worse on a driving test than people without it. The study by Cramer, a ...
Continue ReadingOct 29, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Agencie France Presse: Technology stars, pundits, and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father on Thursday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child. "It's the 40th year since the infant Internet first spoke," said University of California, Los Angeles, professor Leonard Kleinrock, who headed the team that first linked computers online in 1969. Kleinrock led an anniversary event ...
Continue ReadingOct 29, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Daily Mail: Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood. It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own. But it raises a number of moral and ethical concerns. These ...
Continue ReadingOct 28, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation. The $680 billion bill authorizes spending ...
Continue ReadingOct 24, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON—There's nothing neutral in the battle between AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. over the future of the Internet. Google, the powerhouse of Silicon Valley, and AT&T, champion for the old-line phone industry, are marshaling political allies, lobbyists and—in AT&T's case—labor unions for a fight over proposed "net neutrality" rules that could affect tens ...
Continue ReadingOct 24, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
(AFP) - The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world. The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of ...
Continue ReadingOct 23, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - U.S. communications regulators voted unanimously Thursday to support an open Internet rule that would prevent telecom network operators from barring or blocking content based on the revenue it generates. The proposed rule now goes to the public for comment until Jan. 14, after which the Federal Communications Commissions will review the ...
Continue ReadingOct 15, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
LONDON (Reuters) - Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood. Any Neanderthal ...
Continue ReadingOct 13, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete. Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom. The 15-ton behemoth—called ...
Continue ReadingOct 12, 2009 34 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Monday Update: Continued due to weekend site shutdown for server migration. You'll need an Amazon.com account to log-in here, so if you have one, great, if not it's easy to set up, and if you'd rather use a different method, there is the snail mail, and at least one other system which will be set up ...
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