] Delta, Continental, America West, JetBlue and Frontier
] Airlines secretly turned over sensitive passenger data to
] Transportation Security Administration contractors in the
] spring and summer of 2002, according to the sworn
] statement of acting TSA chief David Stone. In addition,
] two of the four largest airline reservation centers,
] Galileo International and Sabre, also gave sensitive
] passenger information, including home phone numbers,
] credit card numbers and health data, without disclosing
] the transfers to travelers or asking their permission.

[ Privacy, what's that? -k]

Wired News: More False Information From TSA

] There's no place where Bush has been more dishonest than
] with this issue. He opposes the Texas Patients' Bill of
] Rights, but it is passed by a veto-proof majority in the
] Texas legislature, so Bush lets it pass into law without
] a signature. Yet in a debate with Gore, Bush blatantly
] lies claiming he signed it. (The media was too busy
] calling Gore a liar to write about Bush's REAL lies.)
]
]
] Then, after Bush gets into office, he orders his Justice
] Department to fight the Texas law. Yesterday, Bush won.
] The Supreme Court has invalidated all state Patients'
] Bill of Right laws saying federal law supercedes it.

This is the more important story from the Supreme Court rulings yesterday.

[ Yeah, this is some shit from all i've been reading. Nothing like eliminating modes of recourse... -k]

Bush lies on Patients' Bill of Rights

] Wearable cell phones will start making their way into the
] U.S. over the next 12 months -- and by 2007, 20% of U.S.
] cell-phone users will likely be donning haute couture
] phones

[ I'm all for it. With bluetooth and UWB, there's no reason the transciever needs to be near the speaker/mic. -k]

BW Online | June 21, 2004 | Your Lapel Is Ringing

] Mary: Why would God make us so different if he wanted us
] to be the same?

Go see this movie. Now.

[ Yeah, we caught this last week... I thought it was really really good... -k]

Saved! (2004)

] Alien Hand Syndrome is an unusual mental disorder in
] which one of the sufferer's hands seems to take on a life
] of its own.

[ Kinda reminds me of the effects of the Revolutionary, used to kill Thecla in Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer... which, if you are even marginally interested in fiction, is a MUST-fucking-READ. Abaddon evangelizes Engines of Creation... I evangelize Gene Wolfe. -k]

Alien Hand Syndrome

] A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate would, if passed,
] dramatically reshape copyright law by prohibiting
] file-trading networks and some consumer electronics
] devices on the grounds that they could be used for
] unlawful purposes.

[ This looks, like, *really* bad. Have to read the bill... -k]

Antipiracy bill targets technology | CNET News.com

] "The Ansari X Prize is stimulating the re-examination of
] a premise that has gone almost unchallenged for decades -
] that 'rocket science' can only be undertaken by
] governments and corporations with billions of dollars at
] their disposal," Carmack points out on the X Prize web
] site. "It doesn't have to be that way, because we have
] advantages at our disposal today that no government on
] earth had at the beginning of the space age - the amazing
] advances in electronics, computerized manufacturing
] processes, in-place space assets like GPS and satellite
] data systems, and, of course, several decades of
] hindsight. I expect people to remain skeptical, but an
] existence proof will change the conversation completely."

[ That's why X Prize was created, and I agree wholeheartedly on this... this gonna be huge. -k]

Armadillo Scores Test Liftoff Success In Bid For X Prize

] For the first time, the No. 1 album in the United States
] is loaded with anticopying protections, marking a clear
] step into the mainstream for the controversial
] technology.
]
] According to figures released by Nielsen SoundScan,
] Velvet Revolver's "Contraband" was the top-selling album
] in America last week, despite being prominently labeled
] on its cover as being "protected against unauthorized
] duplication."

[ Did they name it "contraband" on purpose or is that just a terrible irony? What a load of shite. -k]

Copy-blocked CD tops U.S. charts | CNET News.com

] Signal Orange doesn't say that these soldiers or
] their families condemn or support the war, and it
] doesn't speak for them. Whether they opposed or
] supported the war, they were fighting for our right to
] decide democratically whether a war is just or not.
] They've been buried twice - once in the ground,
] and once in the media. If we can make them visible in the
] media through Signal Orange, we can demonstrate that they
] had voices that have been lost.

[ Interesting method. Certainly a powerful statement. -k]

SIGNAL ORANGE

] he most revealing close-up pictures ever taken of a comet
] have scientists shaking their heads in astonishment. The
] rugged, diverse landscape of the comet Wild 2 is unlike
] anything they have ever seen or imagined: towering
] columns and spires rising above steep-walled craters and
] violent jets of gas and dust shooting skyward.

[ Neat! -k]

To Surprise of Researchers, Comet Has a Personality