Tag: www
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pulling the tv cord yet staying plugged in
a small but apparently growing number of people are cutting the television service connections from cable satellite & telephone companies in favor of viewing their picks over the computer. from latimes: Jazz musician Bill Cunliffe loves television – but he doesn’t watch it on a TV set. “I can watch anything I want, any time…
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obama declares swine flu a national emergency
… which, like other ‘national emergencies’, lets vague directives kick in and be used in broad & sweeping ways – checkpoints, curfews & possible forced vaccinations … from ap: President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal requirements and speed treatment for thousands of…
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defcon 10/22: obama’s cyberthreats, telecoms & crypto
nasa: lunar pole-shot plume shows up in pictures*nsa director tapped for cyber command*nsa director to be new cyber commander*the growing cyberthreat*ucla study: the internet is altering our brains*former fbi agent slams defence tactics in mckinnon case*time-warner cable exposes 65k customer routers to remote hacks*crypto spares man who secretly video taped flatmates*free download turns blackberry into…
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corbett report: episode103 – the smart grid cometh
from corbett report: It’s becoming a smart planet, but are you ready for ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, everyware and the internet of things? Get informed about the technology which is about to change our lives forever on this week’s episode of The Corbett Report. download episode103 [52.8mb mp3] related updates: medical records – stored in…
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econocrash: liquor, gold & a new world order
US economic decline forges new world order* US unemployment rate reaches 9.8%*fdic seizes 3 banks, taking tally for year to 98*economics of undocumented immigrants: myth & reality*1000s line up in detroit for stimulus money*liquor, restaurants & computers up; most other retail classes down* US govt gold manipulation document declassified: download pdf here*video: ‘when you own…
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warwhores: spy surge, drones, dirigibles & future wars
what can americans do to oppose the warfare state?* military growing impatient with obama on afghanistan* cia launching spy ‘surge’ into afghanistan* mcchrystal troop boost comes friday 9/25* reading the mcchrystal report: interesting times* air force crashes out-of-control drone in afghanistan* inside bob gates’ overhaul of the pentagon* science behind US coercive interrogations missing in…
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bill would give president emergency control of internet
from antifascist calling: You have to hand it to congressional Democrats. Mendacious grifters whose national security agenda is virtually indistinguishable from Bushist Republicans, when it comes to rearranging proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic, the party of “change” is second to none in the “all terrorism all the time” department. While promising to restore the…
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Chris Matthews Says Bloggers Don’t Fact Check
from thinkprogress: During a discussion on the future of newspapers & journalism on the Chris Matthews Show today , Time’s Joe Klein said that “on complicated stories, you can do this stuff on the internet.” Matthews responded by asking “who’s going to fact check?” As CNN’s Gloria Bolger began to answer that online editors would,…
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google ‘opt -out’ protects privacy by moving users to remote village
from onion news network: Web users who choose to move to the desolate village are guaranteed an environment free from Google products & natural light from the sun.
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8/6 newspurge: mystery, media, mayhem & more
history/mystery: gulf war 1 pilot’s remains found in iraq desert*former philippine president corazon aquino dies at age 76*georgia guidestones: a sign of the coming new world order* media/memes: dan rather calls for white house to save journalism from financial hardship*hollywood destroys the world: new wave of disaster films isn’t about staving off the apocalypse*the deep…
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cyber/spacewar: antisocial networking & the coming cybercom
denial-of-service attack knocks twitter offline*twitter crashes: hackers to blame?*what’s on the pentagon’s mind? facebook*marines ban twitter, myspace, facebook*skype could be cut off for good over dispute*google ceo resigns from apple board*apple & google: collusion or sleeping with the enemy?*white house cyber adviser melissa hathaway resigns*’cyber czar’ resigns;let’s not replace her*white house struggles to fill cyber…
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ceo barry diller says free internet content is a myth
from bloomberg: Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, said Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, joining the refrain of media moguls who say an era of free Internet content is ending. The media and technology executive, whose company runs the Ask.com search engine and the Match.com…