When Yahoo sued Facebook earlier this year, claiming the social networking giant infringes 10 of its patents covering things like personalized advertising and news feeds, the Silicon Valley technorati blew a gasket, accusing Yahoo of violating the “h
“It is unclear how disarming law abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law.” ~ Gov. Rick Scott, 2012
That was the response to the Mayor of Tampa’s request to have the Florida Gov
Despite two disastrous wars, hundreds of thousands of innocent people slaughtered , and hundreds of billions of dollars wasted or stolen - all in pursuit of a loosely organised enemy that history suggests can seldom be thwarted by military means the
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.
In meetings with industry representatives, the
The Clovis people, whose tools were known for their distinctive "fluted" points, were once thought to be the original settlers of North America about 13,000 years ago. Over the past few years, however, scattered evidence has hinted at several earli
Not only were the fibers were found to self-assemble between the electrodes when triggered by a flash of light, but they are also able to transport current densities approaching that of copper wire. These light and flexible "supramolecular” structur
Yet, China has stepped up its reengineering of river flows in two ways: by portentously shifting its focus from internal rivers to international rivers; and by graduating from building large dams to building megadams.
The former Governor of New Mexico, Gary Johnson, has won the Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party on the first ballot with over 70% of the vote. Facing 3 opponents in Lee Wrights, Carl Person, and Jim Burns
With a significant portion of the world's population living within close proximity to the oceans, often in large cities, rising sea levels bring the potential for devastating consequences.
Early members of an ancient family of trees, the cypresses, grew on the supercontinent Pangaea, and when this giant continent split apart, it shaped the future of these trees, according to research that examined the evolution of these trees, which to
Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think.
Ore Docks and other Lakes businesses targeted by Homeland Security for free ‘security functions’ around the Great Lakes.Over the last few years, Michigan and the Great Lakes has seen a devastating surge in policing action by the Department of Homelan
As far back as 2009, nearly concurrent with the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scandal, the GOP knew, beyond any doubt, that Mitt Romney was seriously involved with a Ponzi scheme, to the tune of $8.5 BILLION dollars.
Even without passing new legislation regulating what Americans can and can’t do on the Web, recently unsealed court records reveal that federal authorities took down a music website for one year without ever filing charges.
The controversial stop-and-frisk technique used on hundreds of thousands of minorities in New York City could soon be brought before a federal judge to decide on the constitutionality of the NYPD’s popular practice.
After reporting this week on a Pentagon-created plan for interning activists at re-education camps, questions were asked about the US Army manual that allegedly outlines the resettling of US citizens. Can Americans be sent to propaganda prisons?