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2007 December

Stop Alien Abductions

How The Thought Screen Helmet Works
The thought screen helmet blocks telepathic communication between aliens and humans. An abductee who took voltage readings from a second helmet while wearing another one demonstrates that this communication is a form of electromagnetic energy.
Aliens cannot immobilize people wearing thought screens nor can they control their minds or communicate with [...]

Dyslexics Excel as Entrepreneurs

Julie Logan, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Cass Business School in London, found that more than a third of the entrepreneurs she had surveyed — 35 percent — identified themselves as dyslexic. The study also concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to delegate authority, to excel in oral communication and problem solving [...]

House Committee wants GAO to investigate US broadband

Congress has recently expressed a great deal of concern about the state of American broadband. Last month, the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet held hearings on the Federal Communications Commission’s methods for measuring broadband availability in the US. During those hearings, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) decried the US broadband situation, noting that in [...]

AT&T Willing to Spy

In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network.
AT&T willing to spy for NSA, MPAA, and RIAA

Miscellaneous News, Mostly Google Stuff

Facebook Caves to Privacy Protests Over Beacon
Dirt is only good if you can use it and Google
shows us just how many people have dirty linen that can be easily
obtained. When all this shakes out over the next twenty years and the
Facebook generation grow-up and get careers, we may well find out …

Google Integrates AIM into [...]

End of the Vista Kill Switch

Harry McCracken of PC World reports:
Microsoft has announced that Windows Vista SP1, shipping early next year, will end the kill-switch measure that cripples every aspect of Windows Vista except limited Web browsing if it believes you to have a pirated copy of the operating system.
End of the Vista Kill Switch: A Good Start — But [...]

Facebook’s Beacon More Intrusive Than Previously Thought

Beacon will report back to Facebook on members’ activities on third-party sites that participate in Beacon even if the users are logged off from Facebook and have declined having their activities broadcast to their Facebook friends. …
…The CA news comes after Facebook scrambled on Thursday night to tweak
Beacon in order to calm complaints from privacy [...]

Google Unveils Another Communication Revolution — Gmail Paper

GMAIL PAPER!

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