The government shouldn’t be able to obtain a person’s cell location data without an appropriate warrant, argue the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Pennsylvaniaread more | digg story
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It took years for the hazards of smoking to come to light. Now there’s debate over the safety of mobile phones, but studies on their possible health effects are far from definitive.read more | digg story
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As the tech world gets itself in a tizzy over Google saying its 5 percent stake in AOL might be impaired — basically it may now be worth less than they thought it was — we thought we’d revisit some of the most notable tech writedowns in historyread more | digg story
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Two Russian planes were shot down over South Ossetia on Saturday, and 12 Russian troops were killed, according to an official from the Russian Ministry of Defense. Russia conducted airstrikes on Georgian targets on Friday evening and Saturday, escalating the conflict in a separatist area of Georgia that is shaping into a test of the [...]
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As the prices of educational laptops for children in developing countries creep upward, a group of researchers attempts to create a new, even lower-tech computer that would cost as little as $12. read more | digg story
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The best of the worst John McCain gaffes, awkward pauses, and lame catchphrases all into one handy video.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/08/mccain-dazed-and-confused_n_117752.htmlread more | digg story
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The Secure Shell (SSH) and Secure Copy (SCP) make remotely performing system administration and copying files across secure links a painless operation. SSH and SCP use the same SSH protocol to protect network communications, but they rely on users knowing if they want a shell or to copy a file beforehand.read more | digg story
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Sir Fred Goodwin, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, insisted today that he was the right person to take the lender forward despite revealing one of the biggest losses in UK banking history.read more | digg story
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As a freelance web developer, time is money. read more | digg story
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Three French reporters attending the Black Hat computer security conference have been banned for life for sniffing the press room network. The hackers worked for a French security publication called Global Security Magazine and admitted to capturing login information of two other reporters covering the convention.read more | digg story
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