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Twitter chooses privacy over user protection

Twitter, you’ve heard of them. With a Twitter account and an Internet connected device to use it, you too could get your personal information turned over to anyone that poses a financial question to Twitter. Don’t doubt the power of money, that’s why Twitter turned over records for Occupy alum Malcolm Harris, who was among hundreds arrested last October for disorderly conduct in an Occupy movement march along the Brooklyn Bridge. Continue Reading »

Twitter allows murderers and suspends reporters

Twitter. It’s not just for making annoying 140 characters comments about important stuff, it’s more of a social media control experiment in which the worst of human society is allowed to participate despite some rather useless results while the more logical and intelligent use gets dejected like scary clowns at birthday parties. What allows the good and bad of twittering also stops it. Continue Reading »

PS3 supercomputer makes geeks jealous

What damage could the Chinese do with 1,716 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles? How many leaks could Wikileaks hold if they were running nearly 2,000 of the world’s greatest gaming systems? Well, if they were the Air Force, the answer would be none. Continue Reading »

Ugly by democracy

When one person tells you that they fnd you physically repulsive, it’s just a personal opinion of one person. After two or more people comment it becomes a little more of a general concensus. Now there is an iPhone app that lets the majority decide. Continue Reading »

South Africa to go back to pigeon for data transfer

A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country’s leading internet service provider. Continue Reading »

People with downs syndrome are cancer resistant

People with downs syndrome may have the cure for cancer even if they can’t spell it.
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GPS systems could start to fail within a year

Officials from the US Government and Air Force are concerned that the GPS system could begin to fail resulting in blackouts and incorrect data as early as next year.
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Hackers at Florida A&M are not l33t

A Florida college student has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for his part in a failed scheme to change his own grades and those of others on the Florida A & M University computer network. Continue Reading »

Pirate bay founders sentenced to one year in jail

Sweden – The four founders of the famous file sharing site Pirate Bay have been sentenced to one year in jail for breaking copyright laws.
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor 47 years

A woman’s postcard bearing greetings from Montana has finally arrived in northeastern Ohio — 47 years later.

Insurance agent Dave Conn opened his post office box in the community of Hudson last week and found the mailing sent from Helena, Mont., in 1962. Continue Reading »

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