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Warm Americas welcome for Obama
BBC News US President Barack Obama has been given a warm welcome by leftist counterparts from Latin America at a regional summit in Trinidad and Tobago. Video: Obama Pledges Partnership at Summit of Americas The Associated Press Harper meets with Caribbean leaders at Summit Edmonton Sun New York Times – AFP – Bloomberg – euronews all 8,685 news articles |
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Pirates seize Belgian ship off Aden
Aljazeera.net Pirates have seized a Belgian ship in the waters off east Africa, a spokesman for the Belgian government's crisis management centre has said. NATO frees pirate hostages, Belgian ship seized Reuters Belgian ship suspected of being hijacked off Somalia Xinhua euronews – CNN International – PRESS TV – BBC News all 711 news articles |
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Obama disappointed by reporter's Iran sentencing
The Associated Press PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) – The White House says President Barack Obama is "deeply disappointed" by Iran's sentencing of an American journalist. Clinton leads damnation of Iran reporter jailing AFP US disgruntled with Saberi sentence PRESS TV euronews – The Press Association – New York Times – BBC News all 1,332 news articles |
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Google researchers hope to keep nefarious computer bots from posing as humans by requiring them to orient images upright.
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darkjohnson writes with this impressive excerpt from Rocketry Planet: “On April 25, 2009, history will be made. At Higgs Farm in Price, Maryland, Steve Eves will enter the history books as the person who flew the largest model rocket in history. The rocket will weigh over 1,600 pounds, it will stand over 36 fe
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Death Metal sends this excerpt from an AP report: “General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could ‘think like the bad guy.’ Applicants, it said, must understand hackers’ tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems. In the Pentagon’s budget request submitted last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Pentagon will increase the number of cyberexperts it can train each year from 80 to 250 by 2011. With warnings that the US is ill-prepared for a cyberattack, the White House conducted a 60-day study of how the government can better manage and use technology (PDF) to protect everything from the electrical grid and stock markets to tax data, airline flight systems, and nuclear launch codes. … Nadia Short, vice president at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, said the job posting for ethical hackers fills a critical need for the government.”
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Kelson writes “The Wall Street Journal profiles Vincent Connare, designer of the web’s most-hated font, Comic Sans. Not surprisingly, the font’s origins go back to Microsoft Bob, where he saw a talking dog speaking in Times New Roman. Connare pulled out Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns for reference, and created the comic book-style font over the next week. ‘Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer. … The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web.”
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jamie points out an update in the case of Jason Fortuny, the Craigslist prankster who was sued last year for publicly posting responses to a fake personal ad. The Citizen Media Law Project’s summary of his case now includes a recently entered default judgment (PDF), fining Fortuny “… in the amount of ,001.00 in statutory damages for Count I, violation of the Copyright Act; ,000 in compensatory damages for Count II, Public Disclosure of Private Facts, and Count III, Intrusion Upon Seclusion.” He has also been ordered to pay more than ,000 in attorney and court fees.
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