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Bush’s Chief of Staff Reenacts Famous 9/11 Quote
from tmz.com: Andy Card — chief of staff for George W. Bush while he was President — probably has the most famous quote of all-time that was not heard at the time … and he re-enacted it this morning for TMZ. Card was in D.C. this morning — coincidentally signing the famous photo taken on…
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#Microsoft Backs Down, Fix #IE Vulnerability Even on #WindowsXP
from pcworld.com: Microsoft’s support for Windows XP is over. It really is. But because of the company’s sense of responsibility, it will fix and Internet Explorer vulnerability that affects XP — just this once. That was the message that Microsoft sent in a blog post on Thursday, when it said it would fix all versions…
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First US Case of MERS Virus Is Found in Indiana Man Who Visited Mideast
from nytimes.com: A virus that has killed more than 100 people in the Middle East has been found in the United States for the first time, in an Indiana health care worker who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, federal health officials said on Friday.
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Max Clifford Called ‘A Devil’ As Another Abuser Exposed
from news.sky.com: A mother who was represented by Max Clifford after she found out she was having octuplets has called the convicted PR guru “a devil”. Mandy Allwood said Clifford “preys on people’s vulnerability” and used her as a “money-making machine”. She hit the headlines in 1996 after taking fertility drugs, but went on to…
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Subway Leads Fast Food Nation In Underpaying Workers
from money.cnn.com: McDonald’s gets a lot of bad press for its low pay. But there’s an even bigger offender when it comes to fast food companies underpaying their employees: Subway. Individual Subway franchisees have been found in violation of pay and hour rules in more than 1,100 investigations spanning from 2000 to 2013, according to…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode192 – India Elections, Superbugs Spreading, Operation Choke Point
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode192 – India Elections, Superbugs Spreading, Operation Choke Point Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: India’s Election Is Biggest Voting Event In the World A Bigger-Than-Ever Reason…
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Cell Phone Privacy: Justices Confront a New World Order
from pulse.ncpolicywatch.org: The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court — the youngest of whom is 54 — confronted their own technological limits yesterday and struggled with creating new parameters for the right to privacy in a world where a person’s whole life can be documented on a cell phone… The justices’ questions themselves revealed varying…
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Are You Ready for a Government Issued Driver’s License for the Internet?
from govtech.com: Government is raising its expectations. While it hasn’t been uncommon in the past for governments to consider money wasted by fraud, mismanagement or inefficiency as an expense of doing business, times are changing. New technologies are preventing such waste and initiating cultural change in the public sector. At the Florida Department of Children…
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Google’s Nexus 6 to include an embedded fingerprint sensor
from biometricupdate.com: Google’s upcoming Nexus 6 smartphone could come with an embedded fingerprint sensor, according to prevailing rumors. Reported in Android Geeks, a ‘trusted insider’ told the website that Google would team up with LG to develop the new device and that the search giant is in advanced talks with “several Asian fingerprint sensor suppliers.”…
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Child Abuse Accomplices Become ‘Saints’
from fusion.net: The recent canonization of Pope John Paul II was an insult to the countless people who have been sexually abused by Catholic priests. During his papacy, from 1978-2005, this newly anointed “saint” remained silent as these predators targeted children in parishes around the world. It is difficult to understand how Pope Francis could…
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Superbugs That Overpower Antibiotics Spreading
from reuters.com: The spread of deadly superbugs that evade even the most powerful antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening right now across the world, United Nations officials said on Wednesday. Antibiotic resistance has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country, the U.N.’s World Health Organisation (WHO) said in…
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Biometric Bitcoin ATM’s Rolled Out in Australia
from biometricupdate.om: A biometric bitcoin ATM has been unveiled at a mall in Sydney, Australia. This is the first of many to be rolled out across the country, and it uses a combination of biometrics to register and verify user identities. According to a report in The Guardian, the ATM – deployed by Australia Bitcoin…
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Minute Traces of Radiation from Fukushima Discovered in West Coast Albacore Tuna
from oregonstate.edu: Albacore tuna caught off the Oregon shore after the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan was destroyed in a 2011 earthquake had slightly elevated levels of radioactivity but the increase has been minute, according to a newly published study. In fact, you would have to consume more than 700,000 pounds of the fish…
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Sarah Palin says, ‘Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.’
from csmonitor.com: Sarah Palin has rallied and riled lots of voters in her political career, but she might have hit a new high for controversy over the weekend by saying “waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists” during a speech at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis.
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The Data Center of 2025 Revealed: Solar, Smaller, Cloud-ier
from computerworld.com: A survey that challenged IT managers to imagine the data center of 2025 offers up some optimistic, even surprising, findings. About 800 IT data center managers globally responded to the Emerson Network Power survey and three of its major findings foretell major changes ahead: First, by 2025, data center managers expect nearly 25%…