Monthly Archives: October 2007

When it comes to formerly secret surveillance technology, it’s not just who you know, it’s who knows someone who knows someone who knows you. The programming language behind this “communities of interest” spyware is called Hancock; techie types might enjoy … Continue reading →

Update on 9/18/07: $81.90 Update on 9/20/07: $83.42 Update on 9/21/07: $84.10 Update on 10/17/07: $87.40 Update on 10/18/07: $90.02 Update on 10/25/07: $91.10 Update on 10/26/07: $92.22 Update on 10/29/07: $93.80 Update on 10/31/07: $95.08 Update on 11/1/07: $96.24 … Continue reading →

from Randall Mikkelsen, for Reuters WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The U.S. government’s main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California’s wildfires that no news organizations attended. … Continue reading →

The U.S. government’s terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list’s effectiveness. The size of the list has been growing by 200,000 names per year … Continue reading →

The winds are predicted to begin dying down today, but this fire season is far from over. Best wishes to everyone in harm’s way out there, especially the men and women who’ve taken on the job of fighting these things … Continue reading →

Chess genius Garry Kasparov is running for office in his native Russia, on a platform of democracy. Since we know how smart this man is, we must also know that he realizes exactly how dangerous it is to be so … Continue reading →

…because the Democrat and Republican leadership have long since abandoned you and me. The current retroactive-immunity action before the Congress received a massive amount of vocal resistance from U.S. citizens, much like the ever-recurring, wildly unpopular illegal immigration “reforms” and other lobbyist-pandering … Continue reading →

I’d just finished a chapter in my new book that concerned the U.S. Missile Defense Shield, and along came this article from Rolling Stone. There are a few typographical glitches in the “print” version (I’m sure these will be fixed … Continue reading →

Adobe Systems Inc, whose software is used by millions of people to read documents sent over the Internet, said on Wednesday some of its programs contain yet-to-be-fixed flaws that make computers vulnerable to attack. A fix is due by the … Continue reading →