Posts Tagged internet
YouTube Censors Marijuana Question In Obama Interview
on 02/02/2010 by NW0.eu in Police State, Comments Off
Thanks Steve for the news tip! Steve Elliott writes in the Toke of the Town:
If you voted for marijuana as a CitizenTube question, then your vote didn’t count. Yes, questions about marijuana were the most popular in the CitizenTube voting Monday afternoon.
But YouTube, in a gutless move, decided at the last minute not to present the highest ranked questions to the President. Initial reports that the President had ignored the marijuana questions were inaccurate; YouTube took pot, the top vote getter, out of the running.
President Obama never even got an opportunity to answer the most popular question of all.
Wait, what? “We’ll let you vote, but don’t expect it to actually MEAN anything.”
If they were going to ignore the questions that got the most votes, then why, exactly, did YouTube ask viewers to…
Documents Suggest Bush White House Failed to Search for Libby’s “Missing” Emails Subpoenaed in CIA Leak Probe
on 19/12/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
From Truthout:
Between late 2005 and January 2006, the Bush administration tried to recover “lost” emails from staffers who worked in the Office of the Vice President (OVP), an effort centered on a critical week – October 1 through October 6, 2003. That same week the Justice Department announced it was investigating the unauthorized leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA status.
But one name was missing from the list of 70 individuals whose email accounts White House technicians searched in an attempt to recover and restore missing emails: I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
According to documents obtained by government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), it appears that technicians in the Office of Administration did not attempt to recover from Libby’s account emails he either sent or received during the week…
The Dreaded Patriarchy Claims Another Victim
on 18/12/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
From Mutterhals at Black Sun Gazette:
I read an article in Jezebel that irked me, which is why I don’t usually read Jezebel. I’m not a huge fan of anyone who feels the need to loudly assert that they are a card-carrying feminist. These are the same people who balk when you fail to assert the same and immediately assume that you must be some docile Nazi house wife.
The article mournfully retells the story of a female business blogger, who claims assuming a man’s identity online improved her standing in the fast paced, super-elite world of business blogging (nevermind the fact that her real sex was listed on her blog and available to everyone with two eyes and one functioning finger). In her words:
Business opportunities fell into my lap. People asked for my advice,…
Found! 22 Million Missing E-mails From Bush White House
on 15/12/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
PETE YOST writes on Huffington Post:
WASHINGTON — Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.
The two private groups – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive – said Monday they were settling the lawsuits they filed against the Executive Office of the President in 2007.
It will be years before the public sees any of the recovered e-mails because they will now go through the National Archives’ process for releasing presidential and agency records. Presidential records…
Modern Life Causes Brain Overload, Study Finds
on 13/12/2009 by NW0.eu in Health, Science and Technology, Comments Off
From The Telegraph:
The wealth of media in modern life means the average person is bombarded with enough information every day to overload a laptop computer, a study has found.
Through email, the internet, television and other media, people are deluged with around 100,500 words a day – equivalent to 23 words per second, researchers claim.
Scientists from the University of San Diego, California, who conducted the research, believe that the information overload may be having a detrimental effect on our brains.
They claim that the strain of processing so much data means we are becoming disconnected from other people and developing shorter attention spans.
Roger Bohn, co-author of the study called How Much Information, said: “I think one thing is clear: our attention is being chopped into shorter intervals and that is probably not…
High-Speed ‘Other’ Internet Goes Global
on 17/10/2009 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Robert Roy Britt livescience.com Saturday, Oct 17th, 2009 A super high-speed global Internet devoted solely to science and education has just expanded to include half the countries of the world, […]
DARPA, Microsoft, Lockheed team up to reinvent Internet
on by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Lewis Page The Register Saturday, Oct 17th, 2009 Arms globocorp Lockheed Martin announced today that it has won a $31m contract from the famous Pentagon crazy-ideas bureau, DARPA, to reinvent […]
Brussels welcomes US move toward global governance of internet
on 12/10/2009 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
LEIGH PHILLIPS EU Observer Monday, October 12, 2009 EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The body responsible for managing the development of the internet, Icann, has cut its umbilical cord to the […]
