Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:51 AM/EST
SOPA and PIPA may be bad news, but they aren't really fresh news. Back in 2002, the equation already had been worked out: Hollywood money + Congressional cluelessness = flawed legislation The issue at that time was a bill aimed...
Friday, December 02, 2011 10:53 AM/EST
by Tim Moran UPDATE: Challenge met, maybe. Ever since the glory days of James Bond, people have imagined themselves gamboling about the globe as operatives for Her Majesty's Secret Service. Well, this might be your chance: Britain's GCHQ is looking...
Monday, August 22, 2011 9:30 AM/EST
by Samuel Greengard Did you ever think about how incredibly inefficient it is to procure parking places and how much time and gasoline we waste doing so? We're stuck with a chaotic mess because the operators of parking decks and...
Friday, January 28, 2011 10:48 AM/EST
by Tim Moran I've never taken to video gaming, but I do like spy stories, so reports of the convergence of intelligence gathering and video games piqued my interest -- maybe because the words "intelligence" and "video games" seem so...
Wednesday, November 03, 2010 11:13 AM/EST
by Tim Moran If complaining about Outlook or PowerPoint could get you fired, we'd all be unemployed. But beefing about Microsoft did cost Vladimir Sorokin his job. Sorokin, a computer science teacher in Moscow, took seriously a 2007 Russian government...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 2:11 PM/EST
By Eileen Feretic Are cyber-threats really a danger to our economy, our government and our way of life? Well, when more than 1,200 professionals from 50 countries travel to New York City to seek information about combating this scourge,...
Monday, April 05, 2010 10:43 AM/EST
by Tim Moran In a tunnel 17 miles in circumference some 500 feet beneath the Franco-Swiss border lies the LHC--the Large Hadron Collider, "the world's most powerful particle accelerator. High-energy protons in two counter-rotating beams [are] smashed together in a...
Friday, December 18, 2009 2:08 PM/EST
BY EILEEN FERETIC "The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history." That statement is from "Linking Population, Poverty and Development," a report produced by the United Nations Population Fund. By 2008, more than half of the...
Friday, October 09, 2009 10:34 AM/EST
By Eileen Feretic What do the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Coach, Verizon, The Walt Disney Co. and the NYSE Euronext have in common? Give up? They...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:33 PM/EST
By Eileen Feretic A recent article from The Washington Post reported on the various challenges facing the U.S. Census Bureau. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/22/AR2009072203695.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter). With the 2010 census breathing down its neck, the bureau must deal with the fact that 22 out of...
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