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Startup Rib­bit seeks to unite tele­phony and the Web

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 01:48 PM CST

Ron Paul Sup­port­ers Make His­tory with $6 mil­lion Online Haul [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 11:44 AM CST

Break­ing records, fur­ther evi­dence that Amer­i­cans want reform and freedom!

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Posted: 17 Dec 2007 11:10 AM CST

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Your Encryp­tion Key Is Pro­tected By The Con­sti­tu­tion? [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 10:42 AM CST

Soon the gov­ern­ment will not be able to force you to give up your encryp­tion key in a fed­eral law­suit. Encrypt your com­puter now!

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Posted: 17 Dec 2007 10:14 AM CST

Hack this school net­work, win a router [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 10:00 AM CST

There’s a wire­less router gath­er­ing dust in Bob LaRocca’s office. It’s yours if you can hack into his network.

New image of 2008 Dodge Chal­lenger found on web [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 09:44 AM CST

Though not sched­uled to be offi­cially unveiled until the Detroit Auto Show in Jan­u­ary, teaser shots of the 2008 Dodge Chal­lenger seem to keep pop­ping up.

Woolly Mam­moths Were Killed Off by Trees [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 09:27 AM CST

For years we’ve taken it as gospel truth that the woolly mam­moth was hunted to extinc­tion by our hairy cave­man ances­tors. Some sci­en­tists, how­ever, are sug­gest­ing that what wiped out the mam­moth was not hunt­ing, but trees.

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Posted: 17 Dec 2007 09:11 AM CST

Clos­eted Badasses: 6 Famous Wusses That Would Own You [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 07:49 AM CST

Every guy has done it: You’re watch­ing TV when some met­ro­sex­ual nancy boy comes bandy­ing across the screen to the delight of every female in the room. “What’s that pussy got that I don’t?” is usu­ally the ques­tion we’re left ask­ing. Unfor­tu­nately, the answer is often “a whole lot.”

How to Hack Admin Pass­word of Win­dow XP with­out PC Open [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 07:34 AM CST

Lets do it fast…. 1. Go to Start –> Run –> Type in CMD 2. Enter com­mand: cd windowssystem32 3. mkdir newpass

Top 10 Rea­sons Why We Pro­cras­ti­nate [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 05:18 AM CST

We’ve seen it a thou­sand times and you know what it’s called: pro­cras­ti­na­tion. Unfor­tu­nately, friends, we’re pretty much sab­o­tag­ing our­selves. Why? Two pro­cras­ti­na­tion experts – yes, they study our lazi­ness for a liv­ing – came up with a Top 10 list on why we procrastinate.

Big Brother Is Lis­ten­ing … And Lis­ten­ing … And Lis­ten­ing [Digg]

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 12:41 AM CST

“The NSA inter­cepts entire streams of elec­tronic com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­tain­ing mil­lions of tele­phone calls and e-mails. It runs the inter­cepts through very pow­er­ful com­put­ers that screen them for par­tic­u­lar names, tele­phone num­bers, Inter­net addresses, and trig­ger words or phrases. Any com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­tain­ing flagged infor­ma­tion” are analyzed.

The com­ing exaflood, and why it won’t drown the Inter­net [Digg]

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 11:50 PM CST

For most of 2007, pun­dits have warned that a com­ing surge in traf­fic could threaten inno­va­tion and lead to “brownouts.” We’ve heard these claims before; are they any truer this time around?

Final Fan­tasy: Twenty Years and a Mas­sive Uni­verse Later [Digg]

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 09:53 PM CST

A pretty inter­est­ing look back at the Final Fan­tasy fran­chise at it’s twen­ti­eth anniversary.

Biden on CIA tapes: ‘I don’t trust the Pres­i­dent’ [Digg]

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 09:43 PM CST

VIDEO: Sen­a­tor Joe Biden calls for inde­pen­dent coun­sel to inves­ti­gate the destruc­tion of the 2002 CIA tapes by the Bush Administration.

Hands on with the new online ver­sion of OpenOffice.org [Digg]

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 09:36 PM CST

Ulteo has taken OpenOffice.org online with some ini­tially pos­i­tive results. We take the suite for a test drive to see how the beta stacks up.

Wider Spy­ing Fuels Aid Plan for Tele­com Indus­try [Digg]

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 09:09 PM CST

“In Decem­ber 2000,” U.S. National Secu­rity Agency (NSA) “offi­cials wrote a tran­si­tion report to the incom­ing Bush admin­is­tra­tion, say­ing the agency must become a ‘pow­er­ful, per­ma­nent pres­ence’ on the com­mer­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tions net­work, a goal that they acknowl­edged would raise legal and pri­vacy issues.”

AFI’s Top 10 Movies of 2007 [Digg]

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 08:54 PM CST

The Amer­i­can Film Insti­tute picked its Top Ten Amer­i­can Films of 2007 this week­end. Check out the list in alpha­bet­i­cal order after the jump.

OHIO TO BAN OF DRE (TOUCH-SCREEN) VOTING MACHINES? [Digg]

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 07:17 PM CST

Result of State’s First Ever Test­ing of E-Voting Sys­tems Find All Sys­tems ‘Vul­ner­a­ble’ to Manip­u­la­tion and Theft by ‘Sim­ple Techniques’

Wexler Meets Goal Of 50,000Signatures For Cheney Impeach­ment

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 06:15 PM CST

Wexler was hop­ing to get 50,000 sig­na­tures and it didn’t take long — it took just 24 hours to meet his goal and the sig­na­tures are still rolling in. If you haven’t signed the peti­tion yet, you can find it here.

Two New Dark Knight Movie Posters, One Leaked Pro­logue

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 05:03 PM CST

As we all anx­iously await the online debut of the trailer for The Dark Knight, we’ve scored two new posters that fea­ture The Joker him­self. And here’s a link to where the IMAX Pro­logue, oth­er­wise known as the first 6 min­utes of The Dark Knight has been leaked

Dodd To Fil­i­buster FISA Bill – Needs Mate­r­ial To Read [Digg]

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 04:52 PM CST

Sen­a­tor Reid is essen­tially sell­ing out his own party to allow the Sen­ate to debate the FISA bill with the tele­com immu­nity. Sen­a­tor Dodd will fil­i­buster. Fein­gold and Kennedy will ask ques­tions to give Dodd a chance to rest or have a bite. But Dodd needs things to say while fil­i­bus­ter­ing on the Sen­ate floor. What would you like to hear him say?

Ancient secrets emerge from grave

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 03:32 PM CST

The bones of six bish­ops buried more than 600 years ago have been iden­ti­fied using new hi-tech methods.
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