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Senate subpoenas Gonzales' emails with Rove

Senators subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales emails today, demanding all email correspondence between him and Karl Rove related to the firings of eight federal prosecutors, The Washington Post reports. "It is troubling that significant documents highly relevant to the committees inquiry have not been produced," Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick...

Tags: Justice, Government technology, Congress

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Justice knew Bush wiretapping illegal

The Washington Post has more on the continuing saga of information the public didn't need to know until it embarrassingly reached the light of day: The judges who head up the FISA court that had been responsible for issuing secret warrants were possibly mislead by the National Security...

Tags: Alberto Gonzales, FISA Court

Blog posts 2006-02-09

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Constellation Wines (maker of Mondavi, Wild Horse and other big U.S. wine brands) goes solar

Pacific Power Management is building out a 1.2-megawatt solar system that will cover the winery warehouse roof for theConstellation WinesU.S. Gonzales Winery in Monterey, Calif. The system, set to be completed by the end of 2008, is supposed to produce more than 1,700,000 kilowatt hours per year. ...

Tags: Winery, Brand, Wine, Pacific Power Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-15

EFF sues NSA over warrantless wiretaps

The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency as a follow-up to its stymied suit against AT&T. Five individuals are lead plaintiffs in a suit seeking class action status against President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and...

Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T Corp., Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Apple's Mighty Mouse sued over name

Apple's Mighty Mouse sued over nameAnd what exactly makes Man and Machines an interested party in this?Do they own a piece of the trademark or do they simply want to use the name for one of their products?RE: Apple's Mighty Mouse sued over nameA chance for millions from Apple? That...

Tags: Mice, Apple Inc., mouse, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Apple Mighty Mouse, M&M, Mighty Mouse

Discussion threads 2008-05-21

Silicon chips for optical quantum computing

UK researchers at Bristol University have shown that it is possible to control single photons on a silicon chip. The team developed 'the world's smallest optical controlled-NOT gate -- the building block of a quantum computer.' As said the lead researcher, 'This is a crucial step towards a future optical...

Tags: Optics, Abstract, Silicon Chip, Computing, Quantum Corp., Chip, Quantum Computing, Quantum Computer, Quantum Technology, Quantum Circuit, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-30

23,000 Linux PCs and counting in the Phillipines

Computerworld is featuring a story on initiatives in the Philippines to ensure that every public school has at least one computer. While the program has now expanded to provide most schools with a small lab, a server, and Internet access, the most notable feature of the program is the...

Tags: School, PC, Linux PC, Computerworld, Linux, Government, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-01-28

Hackers bring down Panama assembly Web site

Hackers bring down Panama assembly Web siteIronyIt seems more than a little ironic that those who profess to be champions of democracy and self-determination in the mid-east are so willing to take revenge when democracy in Panama clashes with "American interests." It makes it appear to the world that our...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, Gonzales, Web site, Web

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'

U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...

Tags: Biometrics, Financial services, privacy disaster, U.K. Government

Discussion threads 2007-11-21

White House ordered to back up e-mail

White House ordered to back up e-mailACLU learns of third 'secret' torture memo from GonzalesThis will help some secrets come out. This article goes into a specific example.[b]http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/071107_b_Gonzales.htm[/b]Deleted emailsIf CREW really wants the deleted emails, I can send them the 1.7 million spams sent to me during 'his term' and...

Tags: King George Bush, government, American Civil Liberties Union, e-mail, White House, U.S. Government

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

Attorney general nominee says he will protect civil liberties

Even as an administration that aggressively expanded warrantless surveillance and intelligence gathering enters its final year, the nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general spoke forcefully about the need to protect civil liberties, The Washington Post reports. Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey said at his confirmation hearing...

Tags: Nominee, Civil Liberty, Attorney General, Workforce Management, Human Resources, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Bush Administration tells Internet advocates to vote Democratic

Sometimes the truth is partisan. This is one of those times. If you want an open Internet, one where you're not being blackmailed by phone monopolists at every turn, whether you're trying to download or upload, then you better vote Democratic next year. And...

Tags: Declan McCullagh, Internet, Bush Administration, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Outrage: U.S. "Justice" Dept says OK for ISPs to assess surcharges for priority traffic

The same Justice Department that's been headed by U.S. Attorney-firing, Alberto "I don't recall" Gonzales has just expressed its wishes that ISP's should be able to charge fees for priority Internet traffic. DOJ told the Federal Communications Commission today that it is opposed to Net neutrality principles...

Tags: Internet, Net Neutrality, U.S. Department Of Justice, Washington Post Co., Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-09-07

Justice Department, states differ on Microsoft settlement

Justice Department, states differ on Microsoft settlementExtension of Penalties is UnavoidableThe idea that all of attorney general Gonzales' problems and his recent resignation are related to getting Slade Gorton, long time Microsoft supporter, into the Attorney Generals office where he can further Brad Chase's goal of further corruption of the...

Tags: IT Still, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department of Justice

Discussion threads 2007-08-31

Congress yields to pass Bush spying bill

Congress yields to pass Bush spying billAnd the fascist dictatorship grows ...... because I sure as hell don't call unwarranted surveillence with "secret court" approval OR "you will stay here UNTIL YOU PASS THIS LEGISLATION" democracy.If that's what you Americans call democracy these days, the terrorists not only WON the...

Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Protecting America, democracy, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Wassup? the magic battery mystery

CNET's Michael Kanellos smashed into a tech mystery today. This isn't about the largest prime number or even the square root of George W's total budget deficit. No, this is far more elusive.What's up with EEStor?This is a company based in Texas, where so many of the current...

Tags: CNET Networks Inc., Mystery, Battery, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Trippi returns as Edwards adopts a massively Internet campaign

Joe Trippi -- the preeminent name in Internet electioneering -- is back from the desert he occupied when Howard Dean fired him as campaign manager. The New York Times reports that Trippi has slowly moved into center circle of John Edwards' campaign, displacing traditional advisors Edwards relied on in 2004...

Tags: Elections

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Interpol chief wants databases to track criminals

Interpol chief wants databases to track criminalsYour paperzzz ...I guess Hitler had the right idea after all, at least according to George Bush, Alberto Gonzalez, and now Interpol.The ends justify the means, even if it involves little things like torturing people, trashing the constitution, and intruding into every single facet...

Tags: database, Geneva Conventions, Interpol, POW

Discussion threads 2007-07-13

House report: 51 Bush officials have missing RNC emails

Eighty-eight White House officials have email accounts with Republican National Committee - and email records for 51 of them are missing, the House Oversight Committee reported on Monday. TechNewsWorld reports that the missing emails are starting to smell like a smoking gun with "obstruction of justice" emblazoned on the barrel.Congress...

Tags: Congress

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Lasers for video surveillance

Lasers for video surveillance"Supposed to respect privacy"..... Yeah. Right.I tried reading through the patent to find what the "low-cost reflective tags" were made of. It appears that information is not given, or my tired eyes missed it. If so, then any reflective surface can be laser-tracked; ...

Tags: Corporate communications, laser, video surveillance, video

Discussion threads 2007-05-18