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Submission + - Executive order overturns Fifth Amendment (whitehouse.gov)

Submitted by RalphTWaP on Thursday July 19, 2007 @10:05AM

RalphTWaP writes: Tuesday, there wasn't even a fuss. Wednesday, the world was a little different; by executive order, the Secretary of the Treasury may now seize the property of any person who undermines efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq. The Secretary may make his determination in secret and after the fact.

Submission + - China taking on U.S. in cyber arms race (cnn.com)

Submitted by

Pabugs

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @12:38PM

Pabugs writes: "China has developed information warfare units — China is seeking to unseat the United States as the dominant power in cyberspace, a U.S. Air Force general leading a new push in this area said Wednesday."

Submission + - JFK bullet analysis was wrong

Submitted by

Spy Handler

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @11:58AM

Spy Handler writes: "Researchers analyzing bullet fragments from the 1963 Kennedy assassination using new techniques say that the government's 1976 conclusion that the bullets came from only one gun (Oswald's) is wrong."

Submission + - Firefox going the big and bloated IE way?

Submitted by abhinav_pc on Thursday May 17, 2007 @10:49AM

abhinav_pc writes: Wired is carrying an article on Firefox becoming big and bloated much like its bête noire competetor, IE. From the article: "... with Firefox 3.0 poised for release this summer, the "IE killer" is in danger of morphing into an early Fat Elvis ...

Comment Broken (Score 1) 153

by wingfoot on Friday February 23, 2007 @06:34PM (#18129634) Attached to: For Unlucky 360 Owner Seventh Time's the Charm

Just got it back. My original started crashing more often and then wham...3 Red Lights of Death. The replacement seems to be working ok...but I have only been on it for a few hours.

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