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Four major potato chip makers have agreed to use less of the carcinogen Acrylamide under a settlement with the California Attorney General’s office. Frito-Lay, Heinz, Kettle Foods, and Lance Inc….
We have this little thing called the FDA.  It’s undermanned, ineffective, and apparently owned by commercial concerns.

[BBC] The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center.
The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after the twin towers.
Investigators are expected to say ordinary fires on several different floors caused the collapse.
Well, it’s all [...]

The top cybersecurity official in the United States has resigned, a little more than a year after joining the Department of Homeland Security, the agency said Friday.
Yoran resigned Thursday because he had completed what he set out to do and felt it was time to move on, he said.
He had completed what he set out [...]

Reader Adam writes in to let us know his relative found a working Dell computer in the dumpster at his office complex. It appeared to be in functional condition, so he took it home. Sure enough, it…
I ask you, is there any hope in the world?  It’s not like this is the first time this [...]

If you’re a linux geek, a linux geek wannabe, or even a non-linux geek, head on over to Linuxsecurity, where there’s a great article on linux security tools.
These programs are essentials for anyone running a network, as well as good to know for anyone running a computer.   For the non-linux users, there are quite [...]

(CNN) — Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent who is a strong supporter of Republican John McCain’s White House bid, suggested Sunday the United States will likely face a terrorist attack in 2009.
What I find most interesting about this is that I’ve been hearing about it for a long time in other-than-mainstream news circles. Now [...]

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has discovered an oilfield within its southwestern Farsi oil block, an oil official said on Saturday, without giving details of estimated reserves.
Uh-oh… I hear in the distance the subtle swell of the drums of war… in DC they’re frantically trying to come up with any plausible-sounding reason to invade. This [...]

The Supreme Court today 06/26/08 struck down the DC gun band and upheld the 2nd amendment with the finding that the “individual” has the “right” to keep and and bare (own) arms and that right “shall not be infringed”.
The vote was 5 to 4
If the vote had gone the other way, it would have started [...]

The U.S. has given Pakistan nearly $6 billion to pursue terrorists since the Sept. 11 attacks, but with little to no proof that the money has been used for that purpose, an independent audit has found.
The assessment by the Government Accountability Office, released Tuesday, angered members of Congress who say they are concerned that Pakistan [...]

The TSA succeeded in getting yet another amendment rendered null and void: you now have to show ID in order to fly.  This was never true up til now.  However, the regulation, in true TSA form, is so fraught with nonsense as well as hidden gotchas that it can be walked through or you can [...]