Archive for November, 2006

Turntables, picture frames outselling Zune at Amazon.com

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

I wonder how Segways are doing.

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Researchers raise Nike-iPod security concerns

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

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Big brother is watching you jog. Or at least he could if he wanted to.

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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

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The rise and fall of the Los Angeles Times. Will someone please invent a new business model for journalism? Good reporting costs money, which fewer and fewer newspapers have.

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Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Not your average condemnation: It’s a report by the government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs Big Debate

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

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There are a thousnd working prototypes now, and mass production gets under way next year.

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American Travelers to Get Secret ‘Risk Assessment’ Scores

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

So what’s your score? You don’t get to know.

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Legally blind woman, 94, bowls a 244

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Does this mean I can close my eyes and bowl better than with them open? I think so.

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FBI joins investigation of poisoned spy

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

This story is now officially stranger than fiction.

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ATM System Called Unsafe

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

MSNBC.com lays out the vulnerability in some detail. The banking industry says it’s a theoretical hack that no one yet has tried.

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U.S. Settles Suit: $2 Million For Wrongful Arrest

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

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This is about the Oregon lawyer who was arrested after the Madrid bombings. He gets to continue his legal challenge of the Patriot Act.

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