For anyone out there thinking News Corp is innocent, we just need to look back to 2009: News Corporation admitted at a trial in 2009 that computers at its U.S. marketing division, News America Marketing, hacked into the secure website of a rival U.S.-based company 11 times, according to Bloomberg. The FBI is currently investigating […]
Appearing in USA Today is an article by David Sirota laying out the arguments against the Senate Bill: The Senate health care bill betrays the promise of fundamental “change” Democrats made during the 2008 election. It cloaks a handout to the health industry in the veneer of “reform.” Though it includes some positive subsidies and […]
Not very according to the CBO: The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans, but would reduce average insurance premium costs for people who have coverage. The Republican bill, which […]
I know first hand that one of the biggest costs associated with the traditional media and their online presence is the platform they currently have their websites in. These are high dollar systems that require countless hours developing. One way the media can curb some costs, yet keep up with an ever changing world in […]
Perhaps up to 1,000 laptops, of which 400 could be tied to the anti-terrorism program: It has surfaced that the US State Department can’t account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. The State Department’s Inspector General has been conducting an equipment […]
The New York Times: The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, connivance by corrupt Islamic charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons have been largely unable to prevent, a classified United States government report has concluded. […]
And here we go yet again. Another company, another theft, another computer, another million people having their information exposed: A thief recently stole a computer server belonging to a major U.S. insurance company, and company officials now fear that the personal data of nearly 1 million people could be at risk, insurance industry sources tell […]
The more I read this story and think about it, the more pissed off I get. Last week the House passed the tax cuts to extend them to 2010. The tax cuts pertain mainly to capital gains and dividends, meaning that they affect the upper-middle and upper classes of this country. Yesterday the House took […]