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• University professor helps FBI crack $70 million cybercrime ring

  Wed Mar 21, 2012
  • There seem to be a lot of IT experts posting here in regard to Windows vs. Linux vs. whatever, but not so much posting about the data mining and any other IT techniques that are the subject of the story.

• Romney says 'fire people' remark taken out of context

  Mon Jan 9, 2012
  • An individual cannot 'fire' a business, they can only stop using them: a company does not lose its job when one customer stops patronizing them.

• US man's conviction in wife's scuba death overturned

  Thu Sep 29, 2011
  • Please read the following from the article: "Authorities said her mask was damaged, the mouthpiece of her snorkel was missing, and that her fin was found embedded in a sandbar."  You might want to check yourself for confirmational bias before you allow the accused back into your life.

• US man's conviction in wife's scuba death overturned

  Thu Sep 29, 2011
  • I think there is a typo in the healine, should it not read "Man's conviction overturned on a technicality"?

• He saved six soldiers’ lives — with a child’s toy

  Tue Aug 9, 2011
  • "Child's toy" is misleading - I would not allow a child to operate a Traxxas Stampede: it is powerful & fast enough to break things, in addition to breaking itself. A toy for the child at heart, perhaps, but not a child.

• UN: Texas execution broke international law

  Fri Jul 8, 2011
  • An American in trouble in a foreign country would announce that they were American: this scum did everything to evade his guilt, but nothing to pursue his innocence. He brought it all on himself, beginning with his crime.

• UN: Texas execution broke international law

  Fri Jul 8, 2011
  • Good riddance: viva Texas! This scum only brought disrepute to his country.  And the UN is right behind him on that.  Too bad they don't share the same concern for the women of Juarez....

• How do you cope with your commute?

  Tue Feb 1, 2011
  • Perhaps we would all get we were are trying to go sooner, and get there more easily, if everyone simply focused on driving their vehicle.

• What is your strategy on light bulbs?

  Mon Jan 24, 2011
  • All the studies ignore that heat from incandescents is contributory to heating in winter and an additional heat load in summer. Duh.

• Clay Shirky on WikiLeaks and the long haul

  Tue Dec 7, 2010
  •  This article would be great, if Wikileaks was actually a Wiki, rather than an individual sitting in judgment of what he thinks should be released into public, and how.  I don't understand how those facts are not relevant, how & when Assange decides what is and what is not murder, …