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10,000 possible terrorist have entered the United States 2007-09-21 19:47:00 And I bet that amount is low. Heck we are opening up the mexican border for gods sake..... How many terrorist do you think have been plotting and planning there ....just waiting Nearly 10,000 people from countries designated as sponsors of terrorismhave entered the United States under an immigration diversity programwith relatively few restrictions, a report released on Friday said. The report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office said the StateDepartment's inspector general warned in 2003 that the Diversity VisaProgram posed a significant risk to national security and recommendedit be closed to people from countries on the U.S. list of stateterrorism sponsors. But four years later, the program remains open to people from thosenations and little is known about what becomes of them once they enterthe United States, the GAO said. From 2000 to 2006, the program allowed 3,703 people from Sudan, 3,164from Iran, 2,763 from Cuba and 162 from Syria to enter the UnitedStates and apply f ...

So you wana be an astronaut 2007-09-19 22:32:00 NASA posted a hiring notice for new astronauts Tuesday, seeking for the first time in almost 30 years men and women to fly aboard spacecraft other than the shuttle. Well you never know:) sourcePowered by ScribeFire. ...

Process Explorer v11.02 2007-09-18 09:59:00 Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded. The Process Explorer display consists of twosub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently activeprocesses, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas theinformation displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded. The unique capabilities of Process Explorer makeit useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, andprovide insight into t ...

Mango - The free language learning course 2007-09-18 09:51:00 The first Free enterprise language learning course available on theInternet. Eleven of our courses are now available in our beta release.Each course has 100 lessons available.We are committed to the constant progressive improvement of Mango.http://www.trymango.com/Powered by ScribeFire. ...

China 'has .75M zombie computers' in U.S. 2007-09-17 22:08:00 Well I knew alot of pcs were infected but had no idea it was this badWASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- A former seniorU.S. information security official says there are nearly three-quartermillion personal computers in the United States taken over by Chinesehackers. "This is a fact that should get everyone'sattention," Paul Strassmann told Government Executive magazinecolumnist Bob Brewin. “As of the morning of Sept. 14, there wereexactly (remember, Strassmann is an engineer and likes precision)735,598 computers in the United States infested by Chinesezombies,” writes Brewin in his Monday column. Zombies are malicious software packages downloaded by unsuspecting users from infected e-mail messages or Web sites. They infect computers at a very basic level,making them hard to find and root out, and they enable the hackers whowrote them to create large networks of “slave” computersthat can be used in massive, if unsophisticated, cyber attacks using atechnique called Denial of Serv ...

Family History and Genealogy 2007-09-17 21:25:00 If youve ever tried to lookup family history I bet you pulled a few hairs out:) Been there, done that.......Heres a pretty cool site to check if your just getting started. http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/History_Family.shtmlPowered by ScribeFire. ... History

The Man Who Predicted the Bridge Collapse 2007-09-16 21:08:00 He's neither a Nostradamus of engineering failure nor apsychic service you can dial for bridge-safety predictions, but HenryPetroski may be the closest thing we've got. Petroski is a professor ofcivilengineering at Duke University and designguru who has extensively studied—and sung the praisesof—spectacular designfailures, saying they lead to major progress. This was the subject ofhis book Success through Failure. He's also known for popularizing the theory that there's major bridgecollapse every 30 years; extrapolating from the West Gate Bridge disaster in 1970,the world was due for another major collapse in 2000. It seems we mayhave gotten it only seven years late. He theorizes that bridge collapses happenapproximately every 30 years because that's how long it takes a new generationof engineers to emerge and then ignore the old lessons, to disastrous results. story herePowered by ScribeFire. ...

Where Do the Nastiest Hurricanes Emerge? 2007-09-16 21:03:00 If you think the U.S. East Coast has it bad, check out the western Pacific.The skies of September can bring the wrath of the Atlantic hurricaneseason. Some years are worse than others, but if all the storms of thepast century and a half were to hit at once, this is where they’dbe. University of California at Berkeley physics grad student RobertRohde used all available data from government sources to map 150years’ worth of hurricane tracks through September 2005. more info herePowered by ScribeFire. ...

Google Earth getting even Better:) 2007-09-15 21:46:00 DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for GoogleIncorporated's interactive mapping program Google Earth, plans tolaunch a new high-resolution satellite, dubbed WorldView I, on Tuesday.Together with the company's existing Quickbird satellite, it will offerhalf-meter resolution and will be able to collect over 600,000 squarekilometers of imagery each day, up from the current collection of thatamount each week, according to Chief Executive Jill Smith. Privatelyheld DigitalGlobe is still working toward an initial public offering inthe next few years, Smith said. http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=42603Powered by ScribeFire. ... Google

At age 10, is the official heart of the Internet 2007-09-15 21:44:00 NEW YORK (AFP) - Born 10 years ago, the GoogleInternet search engine has grown into the electronic center of humanknowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, booksand videos. On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students, registered the domain name of "google.com."The word is a variation of 'googol,' which refers to the number 10 tothe power of 100, a term popularized by US mathematician Edward Kasner. Page and Brin incorporated Google one year later, on September 7, 1998, in a household garage in northern California.Yahoo NewsPowered by ScribeFire. ... Internet

Does Vista seem Slow 2007-09-13 22:22:00 Well of course it does, most likely due to crap running that you dont need. My suggestion is to disable things a few at a time. BlackViper tells you alot. Check this site out and use caution but odds are you will be a happy camper. I cannot possibly test all configurations extensively (meaning, eachpersons specific computer needs), but what I can offer is what "worksfor me" and the obstacles I have came across so you do not have todiscover them on your own. If information on this page needs a revisionor expanded, please Contact BV and I will look into your issue.http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htmPowered by ScribeFire. ...

Cowboy Up 2007-09-13 22:00:00 The Dallas Cowboys wrested the title of theNFL's most valuable franchise from the rival Redskins, knockingWashington off the top of the list for the first time in eightyears, according to Forbes magazine's annual survey. Thanks to a new $1 billion stadium set to open in 2009, theCowboys' value increased by 28 percent -- by far the largest jumpamong NFL teams this year -- to $1.5 billion. They climbed fromthird to first in the rankings, leapfrogging the Redskins ($1.467billion) and the New England Patriots ($1.199 billion). The Houston Texans and the Philadelphia Eagles again round outthe top five and remain the only other franchises worth more than$1 billion. ESPN NEWSPowered by ScribeFire. ...

Nuclear power looks for comeback 2007-09-13 21:25:00 A nuclear power plant hasn't been built in the U.S. in decades, butthat appears to be changing, says the CEO of the nuclear industry'sadvocacy group.Seventeen different organizations have expressed interest in building31 new nuclear power plants in the U.S., Frank Bowman, CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute(NEI) and a retired admiral from the U.S. Navy, said in an interviewwith CNET News.com this week. Applications for four to seven nuclearplants will likely get filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commissionthis year, and eight more will probably follow next year. story herePowered by ScribeFire. ...

halt to trucking program 2007-09-13 20:43:00 The private organization representing the majority of the country'sfreight haulers today demanded the government suspend a pilotcross-border trucking program because they said Mexican truckers are ata competitive disadvantage with their U.S. counterparts. Tirso Martinez, president of the group known by its Spanish acronymCanacar, said the one-year pilot program, which went into effect lastweek, is destined to fail because Mexico's Transportation Departmenthas failed to resolve traffic bottlenecks for Mexican trucks trying tocross the U.S. border, and does not have the personnel to enforce aprovision prohibiting U.S. truckers from carrying domestic Mexicancargo, among other issues. Although Mexican cargo haulers have invested $2.2 billion in theirindustry and created 54,000 new jobs in the past year, "the Mexicangovernment has not negotiated the conditions that will permit freighthaulers to compete on equal terms with its counterparts in the UnitedStates," Martinez told a news confere ...

Getting Ready For A Hurricane 2007-09-13 15:42:00 Heres a site you might wana bookmark if you are in an area that might get hit by a Hurricane.http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Weather/Hurricane.shtmlPowered by ScribeFire. ...