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		<title>Judge Protects YouTube&#8217;s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.com, via The Washington Post, reports:
	The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle.
	Louis L. Stanton, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2008/07/03/judge-protects-youtubes-source-code-throws-users-to-the-wolves/</link>
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		<title>Halliburton charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The San Francisco Bay Guardian reports:
	Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions. The story is particularly juicy because Vice President Dick Cheney, who now claims to want to stop Iran from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2008/05/21/halliburton-charged-with-selling-nuclear-technology-to-iran/</link>
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		<title>Birds can &#8217;see&#8217; the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Catherine Brahic, NewScientist.com news service, reports:
	It has been debated for nearly four decades but no one has yet been able to prove it is chemically possible. Now good evidence suggests that birds can actually &#8220;see&#8221; the lines of the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field.
	Klaus Schulten of the University of Illinois, proposed forty years ago that some animals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2008/04/30/birds-can-see-the-earths-magnetic-field/</link>
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		<title>For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Sunday Times reports:
	A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.
	Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.
	She approached The Sunday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2008/01/06/for-sale-west%e2%80%99s-deadly-nuclear-secrets/</link>
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		<title>Russia Launches Three More Glonass Satellites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	GPS World reports:
	Russia gave the GNSS industry three gifts this Christmas, particularly in its home country.
	On Tuesday the Russian Federal Space Agency successfully launched a Proton-M carrier rocket with three Glonass satellites on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
	The launch will bring the Glonass satellite constellation total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2007/12/26/russia-launches-three-more-glonass-satellites/</link>
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		<title>US Gov&#8217;t Bans Google Maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why should our military have to settle for second or third or fourth-best? Why shouldn’t they have the best units available anywhere?]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2007/12/13/us-govt-bans-google-maps/</link>
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		<title>One Laptop per Child Doesn&#8217;t Change the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine, writes:
	Does anyone but me see the OLPC XO-1 as an insulting &#8220;let them eat cake&#8221; sort of message to the world&#8217;s poor?
	Hands Across America, Live AID, the Concert for Bangladesh, and so on. The American (and world) public has witnessed one feel-good event (and the ensuing scandals) after another. Each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2007/12/04/one-laptop-per-child-doesnt-change-the-world/</link>
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		<title>BIC pens pick bike locks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Cassidy Deline, The Stanford Daily, reports:
	Ever since BIC pens worth pennies have proved capable of defeating expensive, steel bike locks, campus cyclists have worried about the safety of their bikes. [Ed: What about the bomb?]

$80 to $100 locks are rendered useless by the barrel of a pen. On a campus where the average student is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2007/11/28/bic-pens-pick-bike-locks/</link>
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		<title>The Leaning Towers of Chi Town</title>
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If this were an actual picture of Chicago, at least one of these buildings would really have to be leaning.

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		<link>http://net127.com/2007/11/28/the-leaning-towers-of-chi-town/</link>
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		<title>British nukes were protected by bike locks</title>
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How to arm a atomic bomb
	Meirion Jones, Newsnight producer, reports:
	Newsnight has discovered that until the early days of the Blair government the RAF&#8217;s nuclear bombs were armed by turning a bicycle lock key.
	There was no other security on the Bomb itself.
	While American and Russian weapons were protected by tamper-proof combination locks which could only be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://net127.com/2007/11/25/british-nukes-were-protected-by-bike-locks/</link>
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