Does the Condtutution Contain Only Suggestions?
Unless you have always harbored the dream of living under a benign dictatorship, you need to give this issue your full attention. It involves the right of the Executive Branch of our democratic system to ignore the rule of law. Keep in mind that once that has been done — for whatever seemingly “good” reason — it is only logical to do it again for any other “good” reason. You do not need to be a constitutional scholar to see the ramifications of this one. The fact is that the telcos got snookered by the administration and now are pushing Congress to rape the Constitution in order to to escape their responsibility.
It’s okay to break the law if the President tells you it’s okay.
That’s the outrageous proposition at the heart of a new FISA “compromise” that Republican Senator Kit Bond is pushing on Capitol Hill.
His goal: to let off the hook telecommunications companies that willfully cooperated with illegal spying.
Senator Bond wants to bury lawsuits filed against telecom companies in a secret court. And, when they get there, he wants cases dismissed if the companies can show that the President gave them a note saying his request for customer information was legal.
Tell your representative: Just because the president says it’s legal doesn’t make it so! (Read more)
This one is for my mobility impaired friends. Now, be honest. You know you really want one of these. As the original post says, “Makes me want to break a leg.”
If you have been around me for any length of time you are probably getting sick of having me remind you, but here is one more example of why you should NEVER share .DOC documents. The fact is that, unless you intentionally run a separately installed plug-in to Microsoft Word, everything you have written and then deleted in your document is retained within the .DOC file for others to peruse at their pleasure. Although the application used was not mentioned, 
All local Amateur Radio operators are urged to attend the Genesee County (MI) Board of Commissioner’s presentation of a Proclamation of Amateur Radio Awareness Week and Field Day. This Proclamation will be presented to the ARRL Michigan Section Public Information Coordinator and Local Public Information Officer, who will be representing all Hams in Genesee County. 
It’s one thing when Google uses your search for boobs to deliver targeted ads for plastic surgeons in your area. It’s another when your ISP uses deep-packet inspection to snoop on which sites you visit and for how long, and then essentially sells that data to advertisers for super-targeted. That’s exactly what Charter is about to do, calling it an "enhanced online experience." Naturally, the program is opt-out, not opt-in, so you’ve gotta take the initiative to hang on to one last shred of privacy. And no, they’re not passing on the money they’re making off your browsing habits in the form of discounts. 
Marauding ants in Texas are raising IT havoc. This article tells of a non-indigenous species of ant that is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers, radios, vehicles and even a sewage treatment plant along its way. The bug situation is bad enough that the Johnson Space Center has had to call in the exterminators to keep the little critters out of their critical systems. 
To help kick off the 
