TOKYO -- Sony Corp. said Tuesday that some users' personal information had been compromised in a hacker attack as the outage of its global PlayStation Network entered a seventh day.
The company confirmed that an "external intrusion" by hackers disrupted the service, affecting more than 75 million users…
The FBI and the Secret Service showed their willingness today to utilize the expanded definitions of “counterfeit currency” and “domestic terrorism” brought about by the recent conviction of Bernard von NotHaus of the alternative currency outlet “Liberty Dollar” when the agencies initiated a surprise raid on an unsuspecting Chuck E. Cheese establishment in Des Moines, Iowa.
Chuck E Cheese is charged with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 514, which… Continue
Sydney, Apr 16, (AFP): Australia's Barrier Reef district was rocked by an unusual 5.2-magnitude earthquake today, but laid-back locals said they had barely felt a thing.
The tremor struck about 3.30pm local time (0530 GMT) about 124 kilometres southeast of Townsville at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the United States Geological Survey.
A low rumbling was felt at Magnetic Island, a 20-minute ferry ride from the mainland and part of the Great Barrier… Continue
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Policing in Prince George has been on the radar of civil rights groups
The West Vancouver Police Department is investigating the circumstances that led to an 11-year-old boy being stunned with a Taser by a Mountie in Prince George, B.C.
RCMP in Prince George said Friday that the device was used on the…
Wen Jiabao, China's premier. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg
China’s first quarterly trade deficit in seven years may ease pressure on the world’s biggest exporter to allow faster appreciation of the yuan.
Asia’s largest economy had a deficit of $1.02 billion in the first three months of the…
the middle of foreclosure with the possibility of losing the house he owned in Jacksonville. Then the mail came one day in late January telling him that the house was his.
Despite the $72,000 mortgage that he barely paid anything on, despite the foreclosure ... the house was his.
In the middle of foreclosures gone wild, of a system overloaded by sheer volume, judicial investigations and allegations of corners cut, Laspina ended up with the…
A local California newspaper has broken stride with the corporate media and had the sense to post a radiation alert warning people to stay indoors while a concentrated plume of Japan nuclear radiation blows over the US west coast.
Finally a corporate newspaper that has the courage to stray from the official government mantra that radiation is “safe”.
The editor of the local Healdsburg, California newspaper has issued an alert on the Healdsburg Patch to…
If you can’t let a day go by without accessing your personal data and files, you’d better think twice about crossing the border back into the U.S. with your computer. That’s because digital devices such as a laptop computer can be seized at the border without a warrant and sent to a secondary site for forensic inspection.
That ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week is the second in less than a…
By Reuters- A Texas jury on Friday acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied to U.S. authorities about his role in bomb attacks against tourist areas in Cuba in 1997.
Attorneys said the federal jury deliberated for three hours after a… Continue
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives voted on Friday to reject Internet "neutrality" rules that were adopted last year to keep big Internet service providers from blocking certain traffic
House Republicans, in a 240-179 vote, pushed through a measure disapproving the…
Most Americans are unaware (although readers of my website, AtlasShrugs.com, are well aware) of the atrocity that is taking place at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. The New York Times reported last Sunday that “a dispute” is taking place over the remains of 9/11 victims, “between some of the victims’ families and the officials planning the National September 11 Memorial and Museum underneath where the twin towers stood.”
The dispute has arisen, says the Times, because “officials plan… Continue
Former State Senator Nancy Schaefer and her husband were found shot dead in their Georgia home. Police reported that the couple was both found at what looks like a murder-suicide.
Schaefer, 73, was a powerful Republican that represented North Georgia district twice in her life. Her…Continue
Ever since it opened in 1955, the Ohio Turnpike has been run by the state.
Gov. John Kasich, however, is thinking about offering a private company a long-term lease to run the turnpike, likely allowing the company to profit off the endeavor.
The governor didn't propose the idea when he released his budget plan Tuesday, surprising many observers.
But don't rule it out.
The governor's spokesman confirmed the plan to lease the turnpike is still on the… Continue
DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...