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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 [...]