Former U.S. detainee in Iraq recalls torment

Seeded on Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:47 PM EST (The New York Times)

This article follows the journey of Donald Vance, an FBI informant turned U.S. military detainee in Iraq. One night in mid-April, the steel door clanked shut on detainee No. 200343 at Camp Cropper, the United States military's maximum-security detention site in Baghdad.

iraq, torture, us-news

Facebook Implements Privacy Controls on Feed

Fri Sep 8, 2006 12:41 PM EDT

In an open letter to the Facebook community on the Facebook Blog, CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to angry Facebook users for the confusion and lack of control over Facebook's new Feed and Mini-Feed feature.

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technology, privacy, social-networking, facebook

Battlestar Galactica Clipshow

Seeded on Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:46 AM EDT (SCI FI Wire)

From the article: SCI FI Channel and its sister NBC Universal networks will air a one-hour recap special of the original series Battlestar Galactica in advance of the show's October third-season premiere.

entertainment, television, battlestar-galactica, sci-fi

Diebold Voting Machine Seals Broken in Cleveland

Seeded on Tue Aug 8, 2006 11:56 AM EDT (The Beacon Journal)

From the article: Seven of 13 electronic voting machines assigned to a church in suburban North Olmsted were replaced the day before the special election Tuesday because seals were not intact.

ohio, security, election, voting, us-news, election-fraud, diebold

Interview: Battlestar Galactica's Aaron Douglas

Seeded on Fri Aug 4, 2006 6:03 PM EDT (Eclipse Magazine)

Douglas discusses working with Dean Stockwell and the upcoming season 3 of Battlestar Galactica.

entertainment, battlestar-galactica, scifi, aaron-douglas

It's (No) Curtains for Voters in Franklin County, Ohio

Seeded on Fri Aug 4, 2006 11:23 AM EDT (The Beacon Journal)

From the article: Franklin County elections officials have decided not to hang curtains around new touch-screen voting machines, despite concerns from May primary voters who complained about lack of privacy.

ohio, odd-news, voting, diebold, franklin-county

Airline Anti-Missile System Years Away

Seeded on Thu Aug 3, 2006 12:06 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

From the article: It could be 20 years before every U.S. passenger airplane is outfitted with a system to protect it from small portable missiles, according to a government report obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

terror, military, aviation, northrop-grumman, aircraft, us-news, missile-defense, 9-11, bae

Star Trek Items Begin Pre-Auction Tour

Seeded on Wed Aug 2, 2006 1:48 PM EDT (Space.com)

CBS Paramount is auctioning off 1,000 lots of memorabilia from its Star Trek franchise.

entertainment, television, auctions, scifi, startrek, christies

Ron Moore Blog: Reveals Galactica Season 3 Plot Element?

Seeded on Tue Aug 1, 2006 2:19 PM EDT (-)

WARNING: Possible spoilers below. The last time any of us saw Laura Roslin, she had presumably been a school teacher for a year, while Dr. Gaius Baltar was president. From the Q&A entry dated July 27, 2006 in Ron Moore's blog:

entertainment, television, battlestar, galactica, battlestar-galactica, sci-fi

Diebold Voting Machine Security Flaw: Easily Swappable Configurations

Seeded on Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:59 PM EDT (The Open Voting Foundation)

From the article: 'The most serious issue is the ability to choose between "EPROM" and "FLASH" boot configurations. Both of these memory sources are present. All of the switches in question (JP2, JP3, JP8, SW2 and SW4) are physically present on the board.

security, election, vote, us-news, election-fraud, diebold