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News.com.au - We do not need “Big Brother Kevin” or anyone else to tell us what we as adults can or cannot access on the net on our private home computers. Concerned parents can always use engines like “Net Nanny” to control what their children can or cannot access
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FOXSports.com - Virginia, who has won three of its last four bowl games with the one loss an overtime choke to Fresno State in the 2004 MPC Computers Bowl, played in seven games decided by five points or fewer, and it has just enough defense, and plenty of time to …
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Electronic Passports Raise Privacy IssuesWashington Post - 1 hour agoBy Ellen Nakashima The federal government will soon offer passport cards equipped with electronic data chips to US citizens who travel frequently between the United States and Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean.Information On New Passport Cards Can Be Read From Distance NBC Sandiego.comPassport Card Technology Criticized […]

Guardian Unlimited - The only thing I don’t understand is computers. What is the internet and all this www slash dot com? But if somebody will teach me, I’d rather like that.” The sisters were born to Sarah and William Jenkin. Their grandfather, a tin miner, had moved …
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NASA Offers Airline Safety DataNew York Times - 1 hour agoBy MATTHEW L. WALD WASHINGTON - NASA on Monday released an intentionally scrambled, partly deleted version of the safety data it gathered from 24000 interviews with airline pilots, making good on a promise to Congress to make public information that it …NASA Releases Heavily-Redacted Airline […]

Times Online - … Sydney, many of whom had camped in city parks overnight or arrived on the waterfront 18 hours early to bag a place for the Harbour Bridge firework display. This year’s incorporated more than 100,000 pyrotechnic effects, requiring a dozen computers …
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Minneapolis Star Tribune - Hybrid drives in computers will be the first to catch on before universal stand-alone players follow suit in homes. More online High-definition content will spiral out of control, not only in broadcasting but online, too. The latter will re-energize …
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Exercise: Better Than the Couch, but Not Equal to the CourtNew York Times - 5 hours agoBy NICHOLAS BAKALAR The active video games played on the Nintendo Wii console may provide more exercise than its Microsoft rival the Xbox 360, a small British study has found, but they are not a substitute for the real […]

International Herald Tribune - A lot of breaches are due to inadequate information handling, such as laptop computers with Social Security numbers on them that are lost,” Foley said. “This is human error, and something that’s completely avoidable, as opposed to a hacker breaking …
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Daily Telegraph - Binary, that is, when read according to the notation system, used by computers, of a string of zeroes and ones; here in a four-bit code. The logic is simple enough: rather than each component of the figure denoting a power of 10 (ones, tens, hundreds …
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NASA Releases Heavily-Redacted Airline Safety StudyWashington Post - 42 minutes agoBy Del Quentin Wilber NASA today released partial results of a massive air safety survey of airline pilots who repeatedly complained about fatigue and problems with air traffic controllers, airport security and the layouts of runways and taxiways.Report containing thousands of pilot complaints is released […]

Seattle Times - Checked bags can contain batteries already installed in gadgets such as cameras, DVD players or laptop computers, according to the DOT. Lithium batteries have been a concern because they can overheat and ignite in certain conditions. Last year, at …
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US broadcasters get leeway on digital TV switchReuters - 1 hour agoBy Peter Kaplan WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission on Monday approved new rules giving US broadcasters more flexibility in making the switch to digital television from traditional analog signals.Goodbye To 2007–And To Analog Cell Service Washington PostGood question Worcester TelegramJournal […]

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Hybrid drives in computers will be the first to catch on before universal stand-alone players follow suit in homes. More online High-definition content will spiral out of control, not only in broadcasting but online, too. The latter will re-energize …
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Sony, Toshiba DVD Formats Continue to Divide Buyers, NYT SaysBloomberg - 26 minutes agoBy James Kraus Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp.'s and Toshiba Corp.'s rival and incompatible formats for high-definition DVD players, introduced by 18 months ago, continue to divide buyers, the New York Times reported.In the DVD War Over High Definition, Most Buyers […]