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No on Prop 8 Site Brought Down by DDOS Attack

No matter who you are voting for or what your political affiliation is there are some lines you shouldn’t cross. One of those is to stage a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on the website of the opposing viewpoint. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened to the website of the group against California’s Proposition 8 [...]

Who Really Invented the Blackberry?

They’re like crack for the geek crowd. What are they? The Blackberry and evidently Presidential-hopeful John McCain invented them. At least that’s what McCain’s senior policy advisor would like you to believe.
Los Angeles Times: “Douglas Holtz-Eakin held up his little device to show reporters in Miami as he sought to explain why McCain was qualified [...]

Google says: Let Our Spectrum Go!

Google is getting into politics but not to lend their weight to a presidential candidate, no they want the paper pushers in Washington to stop messing around and open up some of the now defunct analog TV spectrum to use as cheap/free wifi internet to millions of Americans. The problem is the rigamarole they’re getting [...]

Obama says: To the Moon Alice! To the Moon!

Presidential front-runner Barrack Obama has released a 6 page document detailing his policy regarding the space program should he be elected president. In the report Obama called for continued work on the Constellation program, a program he said earlier he’d cut in favor of using the money for education, and a return to the moon [...]