Friday, August 18, 2006

Can Govt Make You Look Like A Terrorist? You Bet! Look at this graphic

Don't wrinkle your nose, press your lips together, raise your upper eyelids, or Heaven forbid thrust forward your jaws. If you don't like it, and if you believe that the most suspicious persons of all work for the TSA, you had better furrow your brow in private. Public display might result in detention.
Private security knows what works best

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How MySpace Is Antisocial

"Today, MySpace, the world's largest networking site, has more than 102 million members, and is at the center of an entire ecosystem of startups and established firms serving up advertisements, content, and software. But as a platform for other businesses, MySpace may be far less stable than these other Web giants."

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1GB USB Flash Drive - $15.99!!!!

Insane deal at Micro Center. Check it out.

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How the Brain Loses The Plasticity of Youth

A protein once thought to play a role only in the immune system could hold a clue to one of the great puzzles of neuroscience: how do the highly malleable and plastic brains of youth settle down into a relatively stable adult set of neuronal connections? One way to promote new connections in brains damaged by disease might be to target PirB.

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Four-Fifths of U.S. High School Graduates Not Ready for College

Almost four-fifths of U.S. high school graduates failed to pass this year's standard examinations designed to show their readiness for college, test designer ACT Inc. reported.

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Back to School, With Cellphone and Laptop

"It used to be that getting ready for another school year meant buying a few new No. 2 pencils, spiral notebooks and a lunchbox. Not anymore. Young children and teenagers, as well as college students, are going to school with more electronic gadgets than ever."

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New limits for cigarette marketing: no more "light" cigarettes

From today's ruling against the tobacco companies: "Judge Kessler ordered the companies to stop labeling cigarettes as "low tar" or "light" or "natural" or with other "deceptive brand descriptors which implicitly or explicitly convey to the smoker and potential smoker that they are less hazardous to health than full-flavor cigarettes.""

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Cell Phone-Only Households on the Rise

"The growth in cell phone-only households is part of a national trend led by 18- to 24-year-olds who use the Internet, says Jupiter Research, which focuses on the Internet and emerging consumer technologies."

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Genetically Engineered Grass Created in Lab Is Found in the Wild

"An unapproved type of genetically engineered grass has been found growing in the wild in what scientists say could be the first instance in the United States in which a biotechnology plant has established itself outside a farm."

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Suspect held overseas in JonBenet Ramsey slaying

WASHINGTON - A man arrested in Thailand is being held in connection with the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Federal officials familiar with the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the man was already being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

CBS to start streaming prime-time shows

CBS will begin showing episodes of several new and returning prime-time shows for free on the Internet, becoming the second network to do so. The network said that starting next month it will begin streaming episodes of a new show, "Jericho," along with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "CSI: Miami," "CSI: NY," "Numbers" and "Survivor."

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Pres. Clinton Speaks Out On The The Politcs of Terror

Taking a break from his work at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Monday, former President Clinton warned Republicans not to politicize the London terror arrests, slammed Sen. Joe Lieberman, whom he campaigned for just a couple weeks ago, and tackled some of the controversies surrounding his work to fight AIDS.

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The US Constitution: Anybody Remember It?

It's a quaint little document, really. One of its major problems, of course, is that it was written by white males and as everyone knows, there must be ethnic and gender diversity in anything worth keeping these days. And so it goes out the window, this little document that's been holding our country together for a couple of hundred years...

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Browster 2.0 makes MySpace easier to use

Browser plug in Browster released version 2.0 of its product this weekend and is aiming to make MySpace profiles easier to view. A Windows download for IE and Firefox, Browster preloads pages from search results and provides a live minibrowser when inserted lightning bolts are hovered over.

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Wii for $170?

Financial report anticipates lower price point for upcoming system. Nintendo's new Wii console could be yours later this year for less than expected.

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Nintendo Confirms Free Online Play For Wii

We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They'll be able to enjoy that right out of the box. The Wii console is going to be Wi-Fi enabled, so essentially, you'll be able to plug it in and go.

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Immune-system protein may avert blindness

Scientists at Washington University have made a key discovery in a disease that is the leading cause of blindness in people over age 65. The research also may have implications for vision loss associated with diabetes and premature birth.

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Optimizing your blog for search engines

There are many different ways that you can optimize your blog, but here is what I recommend doing.

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E=mc2 Explained

Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of this century. One of his most well-known accomplishments is the formula E=mc2. Despite its familiarity, many people don't really understand what it means.

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Expert: more overweight people across the world than hungry ones

US professor Barry Popkin said all countries - both rich and poor - had failed to address the obesity boom. He told the conference at the Gold Coast convention: "Obesity is the norm globally and under nutrition, while still important in a few countries and in targeted populations in many others, is no longer the dominant disease."

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J.K. Rowling earns $230 per minute

Her picture hangs in Britain's National Portrait Gallery, her books have sold more than 300 million copies and a prehistoric dinosaur has been named after her Hogwart's creation. She has been named the celebrity world's ninth-highest earner, with a fortune that increases by £77 ($230) a minute - more than £100,000 ($300,000) a day.

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1 Terabyte HD Due This Year, HD Turns 50

Desktop hard drives holding 1 terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, of storage will likely debut in 2006 according to Hitachi. Meanwhile, the HD will turn 50 on Sept. 13th. The first magnetic drive, the RAMAC created by IBM, weighed a ton and could hold 5MB of data on 50 24-inch circumference platters.

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Google's Gift of Free WIFI Service

"My guess is that Google, young and immensely profitable, simply has more money than sense. Whatever the motivation, Google has pledged it would install the network -- at a cost of at least several million dollars -- and operate it for five years."

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The Unraveling of String Theory

By now, just about everyone has heard of string theory. Even those who don't really understand it--which is to say, just about everyone--know that it's the hottest thing in theoretical physics.

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TechTV Reborn as 'UndoTV'

"Pirillo and LaPorte hope to attract a sponsor and begin producing original content, but for now will let the site evolve from the ground up. Contributors will keep 100 percent control of the content they provide to the site, Pirillo wrote."

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Bush's Political Survival Depends on Terror Threats.

Once again in the run-up to a national election, we are visited with alarming news. A monstrous plot, red alert, high drama playing on all channels and extreme measures taken to tighten security. This has worked twice before. It could work again this fall unless gullible Americans snap out of it.

Warning - This article is reported as possibly being inaccurate. This is of course because it is such a controversial topic. I still advise you to read it and be the judge of it for yourself.

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Oil Prices Drop on Mideast Cease-Fire

Oil prices dropped nearly a dollar Monday as traders anticipated the upcoming Mideast cease-fire and responded to the positive news that BP would be able to maintain half of its production at a large oil field in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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What happens when lightning strikes an airplane?

It is estimated that on average, each airplane in the U.S. commercial fleet is struck lightly by lightning more than once each year. In fact, aircraft often trigger lightning when flying through a heavily charged region of a cloud.In these instances, the lightning flash originates at the airplane and extends away in opposite directions.

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Fox to offer TV downloads on MySpace - CNET News.com

Media giant expected to announce plans to distribute movies and TV shows from the company's network of Internet sites.

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Dell to Recall 4.1 Million Exploding Sony Batteries

The batteries are Dell-branded but contain Sony (Sony!) battery cells. Dell has received six reports of batteries overheating, causing damage to furniture and personal belongings, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported. There were no injuries caused.

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Thailand Plans to Give 1 Free Laptop Per Child

"Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand's millions of elementary school students will begin in October."

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Sunday, August 13, 2006

User-Generated Content Drives Half of U.S. Top 10 Fastest Growing Web Brand

Not really news but nice to see the numbers... Nielsen//NetRatings, announced this week that user-generated content sites, platforms for photo sharing, video sharing and blogging, comprised five out of the top 10 fastest growing Web brands in July 2006.

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Gallup Poll: Most Recent Bush Quarter Worst for a President Since 1992.

George W. Bush's most recent quarter, his 22nd in office, was the worst of his presidency and the worst for any president since 1992, based on his 35.8% average approval rating during that quarter. It also ranks in the bottom 20 quarters out of the more than 240 quarters Gallup has measured for all presidents since Harry Truman.

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Researchers zero in on why western diet makes children fat.

High calorie, low fiber diets are causing children to become obese and they are suffering from adult diseases at greater rates. While the answer is obvious, there is more to it than the simple explanation.

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Introducing Windows Live Writer

Microsoft launches Windows Live Writer, a new publishing tool for authoring rich blog posts on Windows Live Spaces, Wordpress, Typepad and other blogging services.

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The Physics of Black Holes

Old but interesting if you're in to this type of thing - No bungee will help me, since bungees can't keep Sunday from turning into Monday. I have to hit the singularity eventually, and before I get there there will be enormous tidal forces, due to the curvature of spacetime,which will squash me and my spaceship, but I won't care. I'll be dead.

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Sneaky Bush Increasingly Dodging the Media

The idea that Bush could travel across the country without a full contingent of reporters, especially in the middle of a war, highlights a major cultural shift in the presidency and the news media. In the four decades since the assassination of JFK, presidents traditionally have taken journalists with them wherever they traveled. But not Dubya...

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The TRUTH about the RIAA

Some very interesting information on the RIAA and their practices.

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HD DVD and Blu-ray Are Both Losers

"Based on a new media research report that says neither the HD DVD nor its Blu-ray contender will deliver a "knock out" punch in the digital video ring, consumers may well think twice before upgrading their home theater system." Besides the fractured video market, PS3 backs Blu-Ray and Xbox 360 backs HD DVD. Sounds like a mess.

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Counter-Terrorism: Differences Between Britain and America

The disclosure that British officials conducted months of surveillance before arresting 24 terrorism suspects this week highlighted what many terrorism specialists said was a central difference between American and British law enforcement agencies. The British, they say, are more willing to wait and watch. Yet much of the same is said of the FBI.

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'Smart Pig' Technology: Keeping Oil Pipelines Clean

Metal, foam, plastic or gel, ranging from a few inches to 7 feet tall and wide as a tree - or however big they have to be to fit snugly inside a pipe - some pigs are simple scrapers. Others, known as "porcupine pigs," sport scrubbing wire brushes. BP acknowledged that the 16 miles of aging "transit" pipes had not been 'pigged' in 14 years.

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Internet Explorer Loses More Ground to Firefox: Firefox 13.71% July

While Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has lost further market share this year, there has been a significant slowdown in the acceptance of its largest competitor, the open source Firefox browser, according to a white paper released by Janco Associates on Aug. 11.

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Saturday, August 12, 2006

Skype Outruns MySpace

"Skype's flown past MySpace. But both cases are even more confirmation that "free" rules cyber space." The bottom line of this story is free is good. We(the consumers) love free.

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Japan Feels Strain of Cheap 100Mbps Broadband

For a mere $36/month Japan residents are getting 100Mbps fiber-optic broadband and free VoIP. 5.5m have now added the faster service, in addition to 23m homes which already have 8Mbps service. But the increased demand is starting to take a toll on the tubes, which hit 158Gbps at major exchanges.

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Stress Can Shrink and Age Your Brain

New research is providing insight into how stress can shrink your brain cells and prematurely age your immune system.

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Wish Happy Birthday to Steve Wozniak

Steve WoZ Wozniak (born August 11, 1950) is a computer engineer turned 56 yesterday. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs in 1976 and created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s.

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10 Ways to make yourself a YouTube Star

But what are the prime ingredients for YouTube success - what separates a viral hit from a barely-noticed miss? Poking around the top rated videos provides a few answers.

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Google Deal Bails Out MySpace

It solves what were becoming serious monetization problems for MySpace and ships a truckload of feather pillows to Google to pad its AdSense revenue, a crucial part of its overall profits.

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Friday, August 11, 2006

Molecular janitors help explain Alzheimer's

The finding helps explain why Alzheimer's is a disease of aging. More importantly, it suggests a new weapon: drugs that give nature's cleanup crews a boost.

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RIAA Asks Judge for Blanket Gag Order - The Digital Music Weblog

RIAA member companies have pulled a long list of legal stunts. This trumps them all in my opinion. To put it in plain and simple English, what Sony BMG have asked is that the court remove the 1st amendment rights of the defendant and the defendant's council in order to save them from public scrutiny of their own words during deposition.

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Muslim community provided tip off that stopped bomb plot.

The tip came from someone who became concerned about the activities of an acquaintance after the July 7 London bombings. That allowed British intel to infiltrate the group and stop their plans.

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Notebooks, iPods, mobiles, books banned on UK flights

Air travellers leaving the United Kingdom on Thursday faced the strictest security measures in years: iPods, cellular phones, laptops, and even books and magazines were no longer permitted as carry-on items.

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Not the Worst President Ever, But a Definite Contender

Although George W. Bush is probably not the worst president in U.S. history (Woodrow Wilson may have that dubious honour), the president may be in contention for that title in the post-Second World War era.

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Remember to check up on the facts of this article as it has been reported by Digg users as being inaccurate. In any case it is still a good read. Just check up on the facts before assuming what you read is the truth.


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Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router: Built-In 160GB Drive, iTunes, and Bittorrent

"It has a built in network iTunes client, so it'll show up as an iTunes client to your PCs. And it has a BitTorrent client that can rip down 7 streams automatically (and 10 FTP or web streams at the same time.) That's with your PC off, all downloads handled by the router. And there's a lot more. Too much more to share before the jump."

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How liquid explosives work

In light of the terrorist attacks foiled by authorities in the UK, I was left wondering exactly how liquid explosives work and how they would be deployed by terrorists. This Howstuffworks article is the answer to such questions.

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TIME: How the plane bombing plot was thwarted

"Britain's MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been tracking the plot for several months, but only in the past two weeks had the plotters' planning begun to crystallize, senior U.S. officials tell TIME. During the past few months the plotters' attack plans had changed."

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Thursday, August 10, 2006

Poll: President Bush would lose to Kerry and Gore today

According to a survey by Scripps Howard News Service released by Ohio University which asked 1,010 "Americans to ponder their options in every U.S. presidential election held since 1964," two term President George W. Bush would lose to both Senator John Kerry and former Vice President Al Gore.

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How to Pick a Linux Distro (Distribution)

Choosing a Linux Distro (Distribution) can be a very daunting task, especially when you are new to the Linux world. "How to pick a Linux Distro (Distribution)" will be a great help and give anyone a good start into looking for a Linux distribution, especially coming from a Microsoft Windows world.

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Replace minimum wage laws with a free market in education?

Economist Walter Williams tackles minimum wage laws, shows why they don't make economic sense, and concludes by suggesting that people who want to help low-skilled workers should "do something about the rotten education that many receive".

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Bill Gates Donates $500 000 000 to AIDS Research

The Bill (and Melinda) Gates Foundation donates half a billion dollars ($100 000 000/year over the next five years) in an unexpected act of grand generosity. I can't even comprehend half a billion dollars.

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Terrorist Threat foiled to blow up aircraft

Overnight arrests have foiled threats to blow up aircraft.

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Gas station owner says state won't let him lower prices

The owners of an E85 gas station wanted to cut the price to $2, but said they had to artificially hike prices after some competitors complained Badger wasn't meeting the state's minimum markup laws.

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Rescue files with a boot CD using another OS

"Boot sector corrupt. Config.sys missing. Disk cannot be read." In other words, "You're screwed." Or are you? Just because your computer can't boot up Windows from your hard drive doesn't mean you can't boot it up with another operating system on another disk just long enough to rescue your important files.

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Why Wal-Mart wants to sell ethanol

E85 is available at only a tiny fraction of gas stations. But Fortune's Marc Gunther says the giant retailer is poised to change that.

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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Survey: People only call an average of four people on their cell phones

Cell phone users spend lots of time talking into their devices, but they generally communicate with very few people. Just how few? Would you believe four?

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Skype pushes into mobile telephony market with iSkoot

Skype has taken another small but not insignificant step toward enabling it to become a user's primary telephone service: by signing a co-marketing agreement with iSkoot, a company that has developed software for mobile phones that enables them to be used to make and receive Skype calls.

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The Destruction Of American Education

Some thirty million adults in the U.S. do not have the skills to perform even the most basic tasks such as adding numbers on a bank slip, identifying a place on a map, or reading directions for taking a medication. Eleven million Americans are totally illiterate in English.

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Town Looks To Ban Sex Offenders From Public Places...

MILLINOCKET - The town is poised to become the state's first municipality to enact an ordinance banning convicted sex offenders from loitering at parks, schools and other places children gather.


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More humans infected with West Nile virus

BOISE --- West Nile virus claims another Idaho victim. A man from Mountain Home has come down with the virus. The Air Force says the retired airman is recovering off base.

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Pain at the gas pump expected to get worse

BOISE -- Gas prices in Idaho and across the nation continue to reach new record highs.

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Colbert's Wiki-ality rant doesn't faze wikipedia.com

As Colbert stated, if enough people alter the page on Wikipedia, it's fact. It should have been the biggest threat to the institution of Wikipedia to date. It was a condemnation of the site's credibility. And it didn't come from the Times, or from some retired political refugee from the Kennedy era. There was just one problem: Colbert was wrong.

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Sugary drinks are piling on pounds, new report says

An extra can of soda a day can pile on 15 pounds in a single year, and the "weight of evidence" strongly suggests that this sort of increased consumption is a key reason that more people have gained weight, the researchers say.

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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Unlocking Your Teen's Myspace Profile

BeNetSafe became the latest company to get its feet wet in Internet safety on Monday, launching a web-based service that lets parents track what their kids are doing and saying on the social network MySpace.

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Wal-Mart Gives Raises, Changes Pay Scale

(AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it is raising wages at nearly a third of its 4,000 U.S. stores and introducing wage caps at all stores in an effort to remain competitive and meet a need for workers and managers as it continues to expand.

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Fed skips an interest rate increase - The Federal Reserve kept rates steady, warned of future rate hikes.

Central bank holds key rate at 5.25%, but it warns it will move to keep inflation in check. Stocks tread water. Crude oil holds just below $77 as supply worries. Wal-Mart to up wages at a third of its U.S. stores.

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Primes... what are they good for?

Prime numbers have applications that are important to every body every day; this is especially the case when you are communicating on the Internet.

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Sprint/Nextel deploys WiMax.

Sprint/Nextel, the nation's largest holder of radio spectrum in the precious 2.5 GHz band, has reportedly chosen to deploy Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access (WiMAX) as the foundation of its technology platform for the carrier's mobile broadband Next-Generation Network (NGN) build-out.

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The Personal Computer Turns 25

Twenty-five years have passed since IBM launched its version of the personal computer. Apple may have captured the attention of early computer hobbyists with its first products, but IBM's PC made the business world sit up and realize that personal computers could be much more than toys. And Michael Dell thinks the best is still to come.

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2 gig USB Flash Drive only $30!

A 2 gig USB Flash Drive only $30 after rebate!

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Sony MyLo: Media Player With WiFi, Skype, Browser, and Messaging

Compared to most Sony gear we've seen over the past few years, the Mylo is a breath of fresh air. The media player does MPEG-4, digital audio, and pictures. But it also has a WiFi connection and a QWERTY keyboard, for chatting on Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger (No AIM support, sorry.) Wait, wait, wait! It also works as a wireless Skype phone!

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Poll Finds That Evangelicals Are Addicted to Porn

"The poll results indicate that 50% of all Christian men and 20% of all Christian women are addicted to pornography," said Clay Jones, founder and President of Second Glance Ministries whose ministry objectives include providing people with information which will enable them to fully understand the impact of today's societal issues."

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Boost your metabolism and lose weight faster

You can change your diet and workout so your body burns more calories. Nutritionist Joy Bauer shares tips on increasing your metabolism

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Monday, August 07, 2006

Bush's Approval Rating At A Sad & Pathetic %20 With Young Americans

President George W. Bush's hopes of attracting a new generation of voters to the Republican Party may be fading, as younger Americans are far more critical of his job performance than the broader population.

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Google signs $900m MySpace deal

Google is to provide search and advertising on MySpace.com and other websites owned by News Corporation's Fox International Media.

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BP Shuts Biggest US Oil Field Due to Spill

Oil producer BP on Sunday began shutting down the biggest oil field in the United States, Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, after discovering a small pipeline leak, cutting output by 400,000 barrels per day and sending oil prices soaring by more than $1 a barrel.

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Happy Birthday World Wide Web!

15 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee publicly released his WWW project onto the Internet.

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Saturday, August 05, 2006

Sprint/Nextel To Raise Speed Limit

Sprint/Nextel will raise its data-speed limit sooner than planned.

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Holographic Storage a Reality in 2006?

"What do you do when you're getting close to the limits of 2-dimensional optical technology? Well, how many dimensions do we have to work with?"

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Microsoft has hacking groups on their payroll

"Microsoft has recruited some high-profile third-party security consultants to simulate attacks against Windows Vista. Among the pen testers are members of the "Last Stage of Delirium" hacking group that discovered the flaw that caused the Blaster worm"

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"World's Worst Internet Law" Passed

The Senate has ratified a treaty under which the United States will join more than 40 other countries, mainly from Europe, in fighting crimes committed via the Internet. "The Convention is in full accord with all U.S. constitutional protections, such as free speech and other civil liberties, and will require no change to U.S. laws."

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RIAA Sues LimeWire

The RIAA has sued the popular P2P program LimeWire in federal court today. "The labels are seeking damages, including $150,000(!) per occurrence of an illegally traded file."

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Beef Producers Not Allowed to Test for Mad Cow

A Kansas beef producer, wants to reassure customers that its cattle are safe to eat by testing them all for mad cow disease. Sounds like a smart business move, but there's one problem: The federal government won't let the company do it.

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Friday, August 04, 2006

Waitress Gets Own ID Back At Bar

A bar waitress checking to see if a woman was legally old enough to drink was handed her own stolen driver's license, which was reported missing weeks earlier.

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Bilderberg: The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory

A lot of articles blogged here on Shoutwire contains references to illuminati, fremasons, bilderberger and so on. This article can help you understand what the "builderberger society" is all about and how it fits into the big picture.

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Ten Reasons Why America's Public Schools Are Like America's Prisons

"5. Both assume one solution for every individual. US justice policy incorrectly assumes that incarceration will solve many social problems, such as drugs, prostitution, gambling, etc. The US Department of Education assumes that federal and/or state government standards should apply to every student. Both are incorrect assumptions. Nonviolent and white-collar offenders should be rehabilitated; parents and kids should have choice and options in education. One size does not fit all."

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Another Google Innovation: Google Maps Mobile

GMM already featured the same things that made Google Maps so cool - directions, dragable maps, integrated business contact info, those satellite photos so you could stalk people...but now it's got real time traffic reports too, with estimates of delays and congestion in 30 metropolitan areas in the US.

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What They're Teaching Kids - One World Gov't Brainwashing Kids In School?

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