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TECHNOLOGY / OPINION Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 2:43pm mrmdc

Wired -- Sourceforge has complied with a DMCA take down notice to remove BackupHDDVD, a program that helps you to rip HD DVDs protected by the Advanced Access Content System (AACS), a DRM standard developed by several major studios and electronics manufacturers. B.. Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 2:43pm mrmdc

Variety -- Winner for most unusual piece of development this pilot season goes to ABC, which has turned a series of quirky Geico commercials into an actual half-hour comedy project. "Cavemen" will revolve around three pre-historic men who must battle prejudice as.. Read More

LIFE / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 2:42pm mrmdc

Canoe -- A groundbreaking study on porn use by 13- and 14-year-old teens shows an alarming number are watching "more times than they can count" and their parents are unaware. "If you're 13 and you can't put a number on the times (you've used porn), that's a lit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 2:41pm mrmdc

CNN -- Cobb County police tell CNN that the two women they picked up and questioned earlier Thursday in connection with a bank robbery have been arrested. Dubbed the Barbie Bandits, the two young women are believed to have robbed a supermarket bank branch and.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 12:18pm mrmdc

New York Times -- In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. Mr. Bush’s approval rating dropped 13 percentage points since last fall.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 12:17pm mrmdc

Slate -- It's too bad that the U.S. political system offers no way to take a vote of "no confidence," because that describes the state we're living in now. We have come to the point where nothing that the Bush administration says can—or should—be trusted. That.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 12:16pm mrmdc

CNET -- The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 12:15pm mrmdc

Raw Story -- House Judiciary Committee John Conyers today issued subpoenas against certain former U.S. Attorneys who were recently fired by the Bush Administration. The subpoenas were authorized by the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law (CAL), chaired by Con.. Read More

SCIENCE / OPINION Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 11:43am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Each year less light reaches the surface of the Earth. No one is sure what's causing 'global dimming' - or what it means for the future. In fact most scientists have never heard of it. In 1985, a geography researcher called Atsumu Ohmura at the Swiss F.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 10:53am mrmdc

www.galwayfirst.ie -- A man who was found dressed in latex and handcuffs brought a donkey to his room in a Galway city centre hotel, because he was advised “to get out and meet people,” the local court heard last week. Thomas Aloysius McCarney with an address in south.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:37pm mrmdc

Reuters -- Counterfeit medicines, some of them sold over the Internet, are swamping unregulated markets in developing nations with sometimes fatal results, the U.N. drug control watchdog said on Thursday. Some 25 to 50 percent of the medicines used in developing.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:36pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- European stocks fell Thursday, giving up earlier gains earlier in the day, amid persistent unease about the global economy and as U.S. stocks fell in early trading. Major Asian markets retreated for a third day. The U.K.'s benchmark FTSE 100 declined 1.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:34pm mrmdc

BBC News -- A delegation of Inuit has travelled to Washington to argue that the US government's climate change policies violate human rights. The group has filed a legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, demanding that the US limits its em.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:32pm mrmdc

MSNBC -- A senior Taliban commander says Osama bin Laden is alive and in contact with leaders of Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents, according to an interview aired on British television. Mullah Dadullah said he had not met bin Laden since the fall of the Talib.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:31pm mrmdc

MSNBC -- Iran’s president blamed the United States and Israel for the world’s problems Thursday in a lecture to Sudanese officials and intellectuals during his visit to Sudan. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments came as Iran and Sudan face mounting i.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:24pm mrmdc

FOX News -- A group of Tennessee high school students are in hot water for trying to make a steamy porn movie between classes. Four female and two male students were punished after a drama teacher caught them filming the flick in a Union County High School classro.. Read More

EDUCATION / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:21pm mrmdc

FOX News -- Columbine High School was evacuated Thursday after officials received at least one call about a bomb threat, authorities said. Jefferson County Sheriff's spokeswoman Jacki Kelley said students were being taken to a nearby park while bomb squads and dog.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 2:08pm mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Declassified documents reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952. The scheme — which was abandoned — was concocted by milit.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 1:41pm mrmdc

CNN -- Georgia authorities Wednesday were searching for two young women, possibly teenagers, who robbed a supermarket bank branch, laughing as they held up a teller with nothing but sunglasses to disguise their faces. The two handed a Bank of America branch t.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 1:14pm mrmdc

Bloomberg -- Apple Inc. predicted that 10 million customers will pay at least $499 to buy an iPhone next year because they realize most free mobile phones are worthless. ``A lot of people pay zero for the cell phone. Guess why? That's what it's worth,'' Apple Chief.. Read More