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Microsoft says that hackers managed to bypass a process it had implemented several days ago to ensure that users of Microsoft’s update services possessed legitimate copies of Windows before they could download updates and content from those services. Read about the hacks… White House press doyenne Helen Thomas is plenty peeved at her longtime friend Albert Eisele, editor of THE HILL newspaper in Washington, D.C. In a column this week headlined “Reporter: Cheney’s Not Presidential Material,” Eisele quoted Thomas as saying “The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.” Read more… Continue Reading ‘This is what we have for White House reporters?’ My partner and I have a leather tack shop in Texas. Army officials at Camp Edwards believed they were being eco-friendly when they started using a “green bullet” that contains no lead — a move meant to prevent polluting an aquifer beneath the base. But six years later, after a million rounds have been fired at the base’s shooting ranges, new information suggests the green bullets may not be much better for the environment than the lead ones. Continue Reading ‘Armys Green Bullets Not So Eco-Friendly’ Astronomers have discovered an object in our solar system that is larger than Pluto. They are calling it the 10th planet, but already that claim is contested. It is the first time an object so big has been found in our solar system since the discovery of Pluto 75 years ago. Read more… Continue Reading ‘A really cool place out past Pluto is found!’ Microsoft plans to release a test version of the next edition of Windows this morning, according to a source familiar with the company’s plans. The Beta 1 version of Windows ‘Vista’ isn’t expected to have the look and feel of the final operating system. However, it is expected to reflect key changes that Microsoft is making under the hood of its flagship operating system. The test version is expected to be limited, at least initially, to developers and technical audiences. The National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, salve Senate Bill S.786, proposes that the National Weather Service discontinue many services that people depend on in their daily lives. The collection of this information, including weather observations, satellite images and radar images, is all paid for by the taxpayers. Under this proposal, processing and distribution of this information would have to be done by private weather companies, notably AccuWeather of State College Pennsylvania, and other services. This would make this kind of data inaccessible to people who cannot afford to pay for a private weather service. This legislation was introduced by Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania. The petition is found at: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/SaveTheNWS/ Continue Reading ‘Save the National Weather Service!’ Discharge of senior cyber security scientist puts national security at risk; sends chilling message For Immediate Release, July 25, 2005, Richland, WA: Today a report was released, exposing crucial information behind the recent firing of Joe Huffman, a former senior cyber security scientist with high level clearance at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a government research facility. “My gun rights activism got me a pink slip, and the truth is in the web logs,” says Joe Huffman, who was fired from his Senior Scientist position at PNNL on June 3, 2005, with no substantial explanation from his former employer. Read more… Continue Reading ‘Gun rights activist gets hit with pink slip’ Gun Owners of America is hearing rumblings that the Senate will soon be considering legislation to slow down the number of frivolous lawsuits against gun makers. read more… Continue Reading ‘Feinstein Gun Ban in the Senate Soon?’ Soldiers from Massachusetts and Hawaii who work at the U.S. military detention facility at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, ed Cuba, treatment gave visiting home-state senators a piece of their mind last week. “They got stiff reactions from those home-state soldiers,” one official told us. “The troops down there expressed their disdain for that kind of commentary, especially comparisons to the gulag.” |
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