NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times sued the U.S. Defense Department on Monday demanding that it hand over documents about the National Security Agency's domestic spying program. The Times wants a list of documents including all internal memos and e-mails about the program of monitoring phone calls without court approval. It also seeks the names of the people or groups identified by it.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden.
"I thought it was going to help," Bush said.
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The US Department of Justice has filed a motion in the US District Court for Northern California looking for a court order that will force Google to hand over some search data. If you have been following this story, you know that Google is the only one of the major search engines that hasn't already given the Department of Justice some version of what it wants. US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seems to have had enough of negotiating the terms of the original subpoena, and so the case is headed for a court date.
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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. -- A teenager convicted in the killings of three family members on newsman Sam Donaldson's southern New Mexico ranch has been sentenced to state custody until he's 21.
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ALBUQUERQUE -- The Albuquerque Police Department is at risk of losing millions of dollars. President Bush has proposed cutting funding to law enforcement programs nation-wide by 78 percent. Mr. Bush has proposed cutting $1.2 billion to the COPS program in his 2007 budget. That money helps put more officers on the streets and pays for equipment. The president has also proposed eliminating the law enforcement terrorism protection program and juvenile accountability program and the Edward Byren Justice Assistance Program . More at KRQE.com
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The US Department of Justice insisted in a court filing Friday that the information the search engine data government is seeking from Google as part of its effort to revive the Child Online Protection Act would not be traceable to specific users. Google had previously refused [JURIST report] to comply with a subpoena to hand over internet search information, claiming that the government's demand to view Google users' internet search requests would violate privacy rights and their own trade secrets. The Justice Department submitted a declaration by researcher Philip B. Stark, who rejected Google's privacy concerns and stated that "the study does not involve examining the queries in more than a cursory way."
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We are deeply saddened to hear the news that Don Knotts died last night. He has been special in our life for many years.
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I thought this would be a good day for some reading. This is one of the places that I ended up at.
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to stop information about themselves from becoming known to people other than those whom they choose to give the information. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity although it is often most highly valued by people who are publicly known. Privacy can be seen as an aspect of security—one in which trade-offs between the interests of one group and another can become particularly clear.The right against unsanctioned intrusion of privacy by the government, corporations or individuals is part of many countries' laws, and in some cases, constitutions or privacy laws. Complete Definition at Wikipedia
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The state bill which attempts to equate gaming with pornography has passed the vote in the Utah house of representatives . GameDailyBiz reports: "Even though there's still no evidence of a direct link between video game violence and acts of violence committed in real-life, Hogue suggested that playing violent games leads to 'automatic learning of aggressive behavior more. ..
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BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information
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Google has released a new program that gives users 100MB of web space to go along with thier new Ajax Based Web Page Authoring Tool. The site is in beta and it seems that they are already overloaded with new account requests. If you have a Gmail account you should leave your email address anyways.
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The Universe is infinite, both in terms of space and time. i.e.,: it has been here since infinity;: it goes on in all directions endlessly.The trouble is we people think infinity is a really big number...like 32. Infinity cannot really be properly imagined, let alonecalculated.It is beyond the grasp of our minds. The Universe goes on and on inall directions and dimensions.This infinite universe theory starts to make more sense when you more...
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This is where all things Google happen...
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For those of you whom Google and use a customized Google as your home page. Here are some cool additions that you might find interesting.
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Repliee Q1 has silicone for skin, rather than hard plastic. It has a number of sensors to allow it to react in a manner that appears natural; it appears to flutter its eyelids, chest movements correspond to breathing, and other tiny shifts in position that mimic unconscious human movement.Read more at www.livescience.com/tec...
OK... So I got a new DVD Burner and I need help...
My son TJ has tons of PS2 games. I buy them all.
Wouldnt it be nice to preview games before spending $60.
Im trying to figure out how to burn ps2 games.
If He like the game Ill go buy it, Simple nuff...
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Adolescent girls abuse drugs and alcohol just as much if not more than boys, a new study indicates.Contrary to popular belief, more girls are new substance abusers. In 2004, 1.5 million girls started using alcohol, 730,000 girls started smoking, and 675,000 started using marijuana, according to the 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. more...
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Most surveys about sex find impossibly that men have had far more partners than women, typically two to four times as many.Either there are a bunch of phantom females out there, or somebody is lying. ...more
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It seems that Apple doesn't mind the open source software thing when it benefits them... more...
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Heres a link to Joy Junction. I stayed there for a brief time.
Check it out...
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Damn Howard, could it be true?
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