US Senate Passes Massive $662 Billion Defense Spending Bill

The United States Senate on Thursday passed a massive $662 billion defense spending bill that brings with it various sanctions, harsher treatment of suspected terrorists and more. Under the bill the U.S. plans to issue crippling sanctions against ... continue

The American Dream Has Been Lost for 41% of Americans

The American Dream has been lost for almost half (41%) of Americans, according to a survey by Yahoo! Finance. The figure may be shocking but it's consistent with reality that 49 million Americans are living in poverty and ... continue

Netanyahu is a “liar” – Sarkozy

French President Nicolas Sarkozy thinks that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "a liar." In a conversation with President Barack Obama where Sarkozy was unaware of a live microphone, he said: "I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar." Obama replied: "You're ... continue

IT Skills Considered Most Important for Tomorrow’s Workforce According to Business Leaders

Increased technological capabilities such as IT, mobile computing and social media are considered to be the most important skills by far for tomorrow's global workforce. This was the result of a survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and ... continue

The International Space Station to join the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean in 2020

First it was the last launch, and landing, of NASA's space shuttle and now we find out that our other bastion in space, the International Space Station will come to the end of its life in 2020 ... continue

Does your “pirate” site have a US domain registrar? You too could be extradited.

Many of the so-called pirate site owners believe that as long as their site isn't hosted on US based servers that they are pretty safe from retribution by the entertainment industry and their trade groups, the problem is that ... continue

Obama wants you to clear that new domain name with the government

It's bad enough that we have Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seizing domains, including legal foreign domains, just because they think the sites are doing something illegal but now it seems that the Obama administration ... continue

[Map] How Europe sees the US

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Ever wonder what 25 tons of bombs do to a town?

The above image is of a normal town in Afghanistan called Tarok Kolache when it was seeing better days even though it was, according to American forces, overrun by Taliban insurgents. After they had failed in two previous attempts to ... continue

2011, Net Neutrality, A Couple of Misconceptions and Realities

If you want to start a passionate discussion in tech circles just mention Net Neutrality and FCC in the same sentence. If you want to get a lot of blank stares and shuffling of feet just mention ... continue

Memo to the President: Hands of the Internet

Mr. President you may have heard about this thing called the Internet, it's that thing that has become a global backbone of communication, e-commerce, and yes some really silly crap called Social Media. Here's the thing though ... continue

Government data, our data, now held by Google

I ran across this little tidbit of news over the Christmas holidays and it amazes me that more people aren't asking if what is being reported is something we really want to see happening. You see Google has ... continue

The usual suspects are threatening to dismantle our Internet

We are coming up to a watershed moment in the existence of the Internet and very few people seem to care. Right now there are two separate events happening that will have a direct impact on both ... continue

One less U.S. State Department translator has a job now

It is always a good idea when trying to give someone who speaks a different language a cute little gift that has a saying in their language on it that you get the translation correct. It is ... continue

On Which Side Will Intellectual Property Laws Fall?

On the one side, we have the incessantly aggressive tactics of the RIAA, and the seemingly endless copyright extensions granted by U.S. lawmakers. On the other side, we have those defending Fair Use, like the EFF. The ... continue