Once again, our esteemed legislators are acting as if something done online is somehow different than if it's done offline. [election year] A bill to ban libraries from offering access to MySpace is a perfect example. There are a lot of places in
Russia's space agency is seeking volunteers for a 520-day 'flight' to Mars and back. To qualify in the first round of selection, you would need to be aged between 25 and 50 years. Being a doctor, engineer, biologist or computation instrum
For Northern Hemisphere observers, August is usually regarded as "meteor month" with one of the best displays of the year reaching its peak near midmonth. That display is, of course, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower beloved by everyone fro
The U.S. Department of Agriculture — invoking an obscure 1913 law intended to thwart con artists from peddling bogus hog cholera serum to pig farmers — is blocking companies from selling [mad cow] testing kits to Creekstone.
Vital Alert Technologies Inc. signed license agreements with the Los Alamos National Laboratory for Underground Radio, a technology that will provide Through-The-Earth Communication, (two-way voice and text) for first responders, rescue and se
Some of the world's biggest record labels sued the makers of the file-sharing program LimeWire on Friday, saying the software allows users to download music without paying for it.
[Huummm. Congress just recessed.] Hundreds are being urged to attend what is being branded as Europe’s first "Masturbate-a-thon." Participants, who have to be over 18 [18 what?], can bring any aids they need and can take part in 4 differen
10 years ago NASA announced the discovery of life on Mars. Ten years later, the results have not been verified. Skeptics have found non-biological explanations for every piece of evidence that was presented. The NASA scientists who advanced it now st
The Bush administration is threatening to sue if Maine regulators decide to investigate whether Verizon Communications illegally turned over customer information to the National Security Agency.
(KSDK) - It's only a drill. But for the next five days, metro east residents may notice an increase in activity involving military and emergency agencies. (They will make certain you notice)
• Honolulu Advertiser Military Writer - William Cole
as Hawai'i reportedly was targeted on the Fourth of July in a North Korean test of a long-range Taepodong-2 missile that U.S. officials said blew up 42 seconds or sooner after launch.
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Here comes the sex police, they’re at your bedroom door - Movin’ in next door, searchin’ from floor to floor - You know what they’re lookin’ for - Someone’s always keepin’ score every time you dip the oar
Police won’t prosecute a man for using his home security system to record detectives on his front porch, Nashua Police Chief Timothy Hefferan announced Friday.
Under the proposed law, police would be allowed to subpoena, photograph, fingerprint and hold witnesses or people who have information that would aid investigations.
Previously hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being uncovered with powerful X-ray beams nearly 800 years after a Christian monk scrubbed off the text and wrote over it with prayers.
Over the past week, researchers at
An almost 7,000-year old stone tablet found in Bulgaria bears carvings that might turn out to be one of the world's oldest inscriptions, a prominent Bulgarian archaeologist said.
"These signs are unique and apparently bear a meaning,
The Sept. 11 commission was so frustrated with repeated misstatements by the Pentagon and FAA about their response to the 2001 terror attacks that it considered an investigation into possible deception, the panel’s chairmen say in a new book.
Hezbollah's sophisticated anti-tank missiles are perhaps the guerrilla group's deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to pierce Israel's most advanced tanks.
Experts say this is further evidence that Israel is facing
The Amarna Royal Tombs Project says radar readings show what could be another 3,500-year-old chamber from the days of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, not far from the recently explored KV63 chamber.
The political fate of Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman will be on the line in Tuesday's Democratic primary in Connecticut, an election that has become a referendum on the war in Iraq.
Everybody will blame everybody else. The politicians will blame each other. The generals will blame each other. The politicians will blame the generals. And, most of all, the generals will blame the politicians.
"Sectarian violence is probably as bad as I've seen it, in Baghdad in particular," said Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, the senior U.S. commander in the Middle East. "If not stopped, it is possible that Iraq would move toward civil war.
Microsoft execs handed a test version of Vista to attendees of the Black Hat - "They are going to people who don't like them, say nasty things and have the incentive to find the things that are wrong."