President Barack Obama may be getting a souped-up, super secure version of the BlackBerry called the Sectera Edge, recent speculation suggests. The NSA-certified device could allow Obama to fulfill his wish of staying connected, some suspect, while also addressing the numerous security concerns that come with the territory. [Sectera Edge: A BlackBerry Secure Enough For [...]
“Despite all the carping, there’s a lot that is good to say about 2008. The presidential election was great. Britney seems to be improving. George W. Bush is leaving. Eventually. That collider in Switzerland didn’t create a universe-gobbling black hole. So far.
Before we move on, one last blast from the past. See how much you’ve [...]
Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He Can - NYTimes.com
For years, like legions of other professionals, Mr. Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry. The device has rarely been far from his side — on most days, it was fastened to his belt — to provide a singular conduit to [...]
I have no problem with this story, as opposed to the questionable one entitled “My Holiday With John McCain.” It will be published in the October 16 issue of Rolling Stone.
This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been
hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who [...]
It seems that the Republican pundits’ love affair with La Palin is wilting like a 3-day violet. There have been several rather overtly uncomplimentary remarks amongst the press and conservative bloggers in general.
Most recently, there was Kathleen Parker’s blockbuster in the New Republic online, where she wrote, among other things, that “If BS were currency, [...]
Google and General Electric yesterday announced an unusual alliance to promote greater use of renewable energy in the US.
The internet and manufacturing groups said they would combine some of their lobbying muscle in Washington and co-operate on technology projects where GE’s engineering and Google’s software could advance the use of renewables.
The alliance reflects a shared [...]
Her office in downtown Anchorage sits beside the ConocoPhillips building. “When I look every day, the big oil company’s building is right out there next to me, and it’s quite a reminder that we should have mutually beneficial relationships with the oil industry,” she said recently. Most people in the Alaskan environmental community see her [...]
The Drill of It All
Did you know that oil companies are already sitting on 68 million acres of leases that they aren’t even drilling? Which kind of makes you wonder: Why are Big Oil and its allies suddenly desperate to get their hands on the last few places that are still protected — our natural [...]
The Mahablog brings us a conversation between Rachel Maddow and Jonathan Turley, an expert on Constitutional law, about the possibility that members of the Bush administration could be prosecuted as war criminals by an international court of law.The Mahablog » War Crimes
Andrew O’Hehir’s blog in Salon examines Peter Askins’ new film “Trumbo,” about the life of the most famous of the blacklisted filmmakers in the ’50’s witch hunts, along with the lessons the three generations since can take from the history of censorship and political gagging of Americans.
If the Hollywood blacklist and the entire Red Scare [...]
Two Die in European Truck Drivers’ Fuel Price Protest
BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 11, 2008 (ENS) - Two truck drivers were killed in fuel price protest actions in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday as governments across Europe struggle to contain strikes by thousands of truckers, fishermen and railway workers over soaring fuel prices.
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It is an indication of the state of journalism in this country, and perhaps others (I wouldn’t know, unfortunately), that just about everyone ends up preaching to the choir.
This is by no means the fault of individual journalists; it’s a function of how the system works. Except for the op-ed pages of a couple [...]
In the two weeks since the cyclone hit, the junta has allowed in a modest amount of supplies from a number of nations, but relief workers say it is far short of what they need to fend off starvation and disease. The United Nations says only 20 percent of the survivors have received even “rudimentary [...]
Electronics obsolescence—also known as DMSMS, for
diminishing manufacturing sources and material
shortages—is a huge problem for designers who build
[...]
RED BANK, N. J., April 16, 2008 — BigString Corporation (OTCBB: BSGC)
today unveiled a new self-destructing instant messaging technology that
enables users to send instant messages (IMs) that self-destruct after
being sent. Additionally, IMs sent via BigString’s service cannot be
copied, logged or screen-printed. BigString IM is a free advertising
supported service available at http://www.bigstring.com. It is
available as a [...]
With all of the attention that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) update (and the administration’s vigorous attempts to immunize the criminals telcos), it seems like a good time to explore the issues surrounding surveillance and privacy in America today.
While there are many scary things being done by intelligence and law
enforcement, hope is not far [...]
It is well known that people don’t always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is [...]
“… At least two major global corporations, one American and one Dutch, have told their executives not to carry confidential business material on laptops on overseas trips, Gurley said. In Canada, one law firm has instructed its lawyers to travel to the United States with “blank laptops” whose hard drives contain no data. “We just [...]
Which 2008 Presidential Candidate Agrees With You?
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