] The five members of the Federal Communications Commission
] defended their new telephone and broadband policy in
] front of a Congressional hearing today

or When multi-billion dollar corporations throw temper tantrums.

F.C.C. Members Testify About New High-Speed Rules

Best if played to Methods of Mayhem's 'Going too fast'

Nashville Drivers

] LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Pioneer 10, the first
] spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, has fallen
] silent after traveling billions of miles from Earth on a
] mission that has lasted nearly 31 years, NASA said
] Tuesday.
]
] What was apparently the spacecraft's last signal was
] received January 22 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's
] Deep Space Network. At the time, Pioneer 10 was 7.6
] billion miles from Earth; the signal, traveling at the
] speed of light, took 11 hours and 20 minutes to arrive.

CNN.com - Pioneer 10 falls silent after nearly 31 years - Feb. 25, 2003

] In a case calling into question the thoroughness of the
] certification process for touch-screen voting systems, a
] former engineer for an election software company has
] filed a lawsuit against his ex-employer, claiming
] executives ignored his warnings of potential defects.

the plot thickens...

Voting Software Firm Gets Sued

A great article on how the spooks are finding it difficult to keep up with technology.

These Are Not Your Father's Wiretaps

My hero!

Yzerman mural graces downtown

] Hazardous materials from these junked computers and
] discarded gadgets are polluting the environment in these
] developing countries and causing great health hazards to
] those who live there, environmentalists say.

Make sure you look through the pictorial.

Recyclers Pledge to Cut E-Waste

] The nation's Bell companies are quietly lobbying the
] nation's top regulators at the Federal Communications
] Commission. Their goal is to slap new charges on
] Internet-based calls in order to protect their own
] system. If the FCC goes along, it will effectively crush
] the growing entrepreneurial drive by numerous Internet
] providers to provide consumers with this service.

I'm curious where she gets some facts in this article, but nonetheless, she paints the picture as it really is.

Will the Bells crush Net calling?

What John Holmes and Joey Cinelli can look forward to someday...

Over the boards ... with Red Wings Zamboni driver Al Sobotka

] The Pentagon calls this new doctrine RMA, for "revolution
] in military affairs," and it's made possible not just by
] fresh thinking in the Pentagon but also by a subtle shift
] in the ranks of U.S. defense contractors. In building its
] new high-tech arsenal, the United States has also created
] a new military-industrial complex.

The New Military Industrial Complex