The US has reacted warily after Iran appeared to accept a deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would have "no problem" if most of its stock was held for several months before being returned as fuel rods.
Israeli F-16s carried out an air strike late Tuesday against underground smuggling tunnels at the Gaza Strip-Egypt border, in response to two explosive ?laden barrels that washed up on beaches in Ashdod and Ashkelon the previous day, an Israeli army spokesman said.
 
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It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...
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Zombie/NPR fanfiction
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Kirby sez, "Spot on parody of the NPR News Quiz Show during a Zombie Apocalypse. Peter Sagal, Carl Kassel, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, and Tom Bodett don't miss a beat as they broadcast their last show before retreating to the cave system. The author gets the personalities perfect. You can imagine that this is exactly how the panelists would ...
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Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits
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A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product "that will revolutionize everything" (it's a "new kind of glass," as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that's what everyone said about aerogel and the Segway, but maybe this time... They're shipping to the UK soon,
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Murtha hospitalized: Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., is in intensive care stemming from complications related to gallbladder surgery. A spokesman said Murtha, 77, underwent surgery last week and is at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington.
 
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Coondoggie passes along a NetworkWorld report on the pronouncement of a judicial conference committee recommending that trial judges specifically instruct jurors not to use any electronic communications devices or sites during trial and deliberations. Here's the committee report (PDF). "If you think you're going to use your spanking new iPhone to ...
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New iPhone Attack Kills Apps, Reroutes Web Traffic
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Trailrunner7 sends in a threatpost.com article on exploiting flaws in the way the iPhone handles digital certificates. "[Several flaws] could lead to an attacker being able to create his own trusted certificate and entice users into downloading malicious files onto their iPhones. The result of the attack is that a remote hacker is able to change ...
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WASHINGTON - The nation's top uniformed military officer told Congress yesterday that gay men and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military, the strongest endorsement ever by the nation's military leadership for overturning the law that excludes them.
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Video of a squirrel with some sort of neurological disorder . If you’re anything like me, you’ll crack up for the first five seconds and then spend the next two minutes going, “Aww, poor thing.”
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A bomb attack shook the opening ceremony of a girls' school Wednesday in northwestern Pakistan, leaving six people dead, including three foreigners, and 70 others wounded, officials said.
CHICAGO — In the nation’s first primary of the midterm election season, voters went to the polls on Tuesday across Illinois, President Obama’s home state, where Republicans are eager to make inroads come November.
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An anonymous reader points out an article at SavyGamer in which several game industry veterans were polled for their opinions on DRM. Cliff Harris of Positech Games said he didn't think his decision to stop using DRM significantly affected piracy of his games, accepting it as an unavoidable fact. "Maybe a few of the more honest people now buy the ...
WASHINGTON – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man accused of trying to blow up a jet on Christmas Day, has been providing FBI interrogators with useful intelligence about his training and contacts since last week, Obama administration sources said Tuesday.
Raylene Worthington, and her husband, Carl Brent Worthington, center, are shown leaving the Clackamas County Court Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, in Oregon City. Ore. The Worthingtons were acquitted of manslaughter in the March 2008 death of their 15-month-old daughter, Ava, from pneumonia and a blood infection, but Brent Worthington was convicted of ...
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A $21 blueberry facial for your dog.
 
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You ask someone: “What state is Boise in?” And they answer: “Idaho.” And you say: “You are? Really?” Get it? I da hoe
Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee discusses the arrest of Dorice Moore, who was charged in the case of slain Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, in Tampa on Tuesday.
Applications have a natural tendency to grow. If you don’t pay attention, what started out as an elegant, simple application that perfectly solves a single problem, can quickly turn into a huge behemoth of an application that solves a ton of problems, but solves all of them poorly. Features are always more complex than you think, and many small ...
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Steve’s iPad keynote felt just a little off. We got what we wanted, but it still felt a little like the iPad was a vehicle full of potential rather than a self-contained package of productivity. This morning I woke up and realized what was missing: The minor apps.
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Understanding Multi-tasking on the iPad: What is it really?
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IPad haters hard on two things lacking on the iPad, that most commoners can relate to. One is Flash, and the other, multi-tasking. The first one is as even more irrelevant today as it was back when the iPhone was first announced. Lack of Flash is not going to stop people from having a better internet experience on the iPad. John Gruber sums up ...
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LA 2 Rangers 1 : There were a couple of new faces on the ice for New York Tuesday, but they didn't help the Rangers put the puck in the net. Once again, Marian Gaborik was the only goal scorer and while Brandon Prust certainly made his presence felt, Slats is going to have to make a couple of more trades if he expects this team to compete in the ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (NBA.com exclusive) -- One top assistant resigned after just two months on the job. One starter was moved to the bench. And the starting point guard returned after a short injury stint with his best game of the season.
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