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April 18 to 24, 2005
"By approving liquid marijuana, the Canadian
government
has just certified that virtually everything our own
government
has been telling us about marijuana is wrong"...
April 11 to 17, 2005
In related news, thanks to Google Maps, you can see how the forestry industry is de-greening British Columbia via clear-cutting. Hopefully activists will make use of this new tool to help enforc...
The
government
gives lame reasons for making passports remotely readable. Also noted is that your birth date and photo can be picked up remotely. That means (identity) thieves could make instan...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Here's a concise Q&A page on the Akaka bill (The Native Hawaiian
government
Reorganization Act of 2005), with the text of the bill included. In a nutshell, the bill "lays out the procedures throug...
January 24 to 30, 2005
The
government
is accusing DuPont of hiding materials that suggest that a chemical in Teflon leads to cancer and birth defects. Not only that, the chemical's been found in people's bloodstreams. Afte...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Monsanto paid a $1.3 million penalty to settle charges of bribing the Indonesian
government
to help facilitate the cultivation of its genetically modified crops...
December 6 to 12, 2004
"Democrats on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee have asked Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell to answer for a host of voting irregularities they say occurred in Ohio Nov. 2."...
November 22 to 28, 2004
How the
government
uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on every printed document. Use a blue LED light to se...
August 22 to 29, 2004
It costs the U.S.
government
$6.5 billion a year just to keep things secret. 90% of those things shouldn't be...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Abu Ghraib: "...private-sector employees actively took part in horrifying prisoner abuse". Examines the growing trend of the
government
to sidestep laws by hiring corporations to do the dirty work...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
What the U.S. can learn from South Korea, where broadband is cheap, over 10 times faster, and is transforming
government
and society with telemedicine to the house, video on demand, and a lucrativ...
"How
government
protects big media - and shuts out upstarts like me." By Ted Turner...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
"US
government
warns against Internet Explorer...
May 24 to 30, 2004
Remember the photo diary of that Russian motorcyclist touring around Chernobyl? It turns out that it was a fake...
Curious locals dig up Area 51 wireless perimeter sensors on public land and get busted by the FBI and Air Force agents...
An S.F. gallery closes after its owner is assaulted for displaying a painting depicting the abuse of Iraqi soldiers by American troops. And this in the typically "counterculture" North Beach area too...
May 3 to 9, 2004
*
government
networks in Hong Kong and Taiwa...
April 19 to 25, 2004
4) Endorse the use of lead-free computer systems, at least by
government
: The world's first lead-free motherboard (the main component in personal computers) has been developed...
March 31, 2004
While the islands have seen a few distinctive architects that were compelled, nurtured, and influenced by Hawaii's natural environment - Dickey, Ossipoff, Morgan - the last 40 years has been witnes...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Robert Cringely argues that in the end anti-trust laws are ineffective when in comes to Microsoft, since they actually end up saving money by being non-compliant with
government
regulations...
March 22 to 28, 2004
A list of current scandals in the
government
...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Although silly bills are introduced all the time, this one's a whopper: "To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United States Supreme Court...
This was pretty popular - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld caught red-handed on TV lying about one of his statements regarding Iraq...
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting machines manufacturer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
A Diebold (Windows-based) ATM crashes and gives everyone free access...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Advertisers are now using MRIs to correlate image affinity to brain activity: "Big
government
and big companies have been trying to manipulate us since the start of time," [says a study volunteer]...
January 12 to 18, 2004
The federal
government
plans to analyze employees' hair, sweat, and saliva as a part of new drug tests...
November 17 to 23, 2003
The epidemic is so bad that the U.S.
government
last week developed a 10-year plan to battle it. Now it is thought to effect 6 of 1,000 kids: "Autism no longer considered a rare condition...
September 15, 2003
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like socialist computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean
government
in the earl...
September 2, 2003
"...it has awakened
government
s to the need to reduce their dependence on Windows operating systems....
August 25, 2003
* Several departments of the New Jersey state governmen...
July 8, 2003
For his thesis, Sean Gorman made an interactive program to identify power, Internet, and phone networks throughout the U.S. On a map you can select any company and see exactly what network wires t...