The San Jose, Calif., company introduced on Tuesday the eBay Community Codebase program, which provides a collaborative forum wherein open-source developers can tap one another to create tools and applications using Web services from eBay and its PayPal online payment division.
WASHINGTON - The House moved Wednesday toward approval of a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to ban desecration of the American flag, a measure that for the first time stands a chance of passing the Senate as well.
While am as Patriotic as anybody else but this should NOT be an Ammendment. I agree with Rep. Jerrold Nadler from NY
“If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.”
Despite a veto threat from President Bush, lawmakers voted 238-187 to block the part of the antiterrorism law that allows the government to investigate the reading habits of terror suspects.
The vote reversed a narrow loss last year by lawmakers complaining about threats to privacy rights. They narrowed the proposal this year to permit the government to continue to seek out records of internet use at libraries.
MOSCOW (AP) — A joint Russian-U.S. project to launch a solar sail space vehicle crashed back to Earth when the booster rocket’s engine failed less than two minutes after takeoff, the Russian space agency said Wednesday.The Cosmos 1 vehicle was intended to show that a so-called solar sail can make a controlled flight. Solar sails, designed to be propelled by pressure from sunlight, are envisioned as a potential means for achieving interstellar flight, allowing such spacecraft to gradually build up great velocity and cover large distances.
But the Volna booster rocket failed 83 seconds after its launch from a Russian nuclear submarine in the northern Barents Sea just before midnight Tuesday in Moscow, the Russian space agency said.
Its shame. We never got to see if it even works.
C|Net has an interesting story contrasting the cultures inside Yahoo & Google. The first three paragraphs show the most striking difference to me:
On the walls of Yahoo’s modest Silicon Valley offices there are posters with sketches of oddball inventions that have landed patents, such as a portable bird cage. The point: If a bird cage can get a patent, Yahoo’s employees can come up with something big if they put their minds to it.
The posters are promoting a program called the “Idea Factory” that is supposed to goose inventive thinking at the 10-year-old Internet-giant-turned-media-powerhouse. Through Idea Factory, staffers are urged to submit notions for improving everything from the company’s products to its campus.
Five miles down the road at offices of archrival Google, inventive thinking is assumed. At Google, engineers are expected to spend one day a week on a project of personal interest. It’s a mandate that’s spawned new services such as Google News, which now attracts 7.1 million visitors per month, according to Nielsen NetRatings, and the social networking site Orkut, which has yet to be integrated into the search site.
Yahoo puts up posters asking people to come up with new innovative stuff to help the company, Google gives both time and money to do so.
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (Reuters) - Accused Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was found guilty of manslaughter on Tuesday in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers, a case that outraged much of the country and energized the civil rights movement.
update: Killen gets 60 years.
NEW YORK - The head of the credit card processing company whose computer system was breached by hackers, exposing millions of credit card accounts, has acknowledged that his firm should not have been keeping the consumer records in the first place.
… and not by the two planes that smacked in to the side of the buildings.
I think this guy might be on California Cancer Medication but check it out for yourself.
dap: MH King
In one year I can officially start my mid-life crisis.
BOSTON - On April 25, Gregory Despres arrived at the U.S.-Canadian border crossing at Calais, Maine, carrying a homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood. U.S. customs agents confiscated the weapons and fingerprinted Despres. Then they let him into the United States.
(emphasis mine)
Back in the 80’s when I was in High School and the marching Band (you see I’m a nerd on many levels). We (the band) went on a trip to Niagara Falls for the “Blossom Festival” I think was ? Anyway one of our members was a Spanish exchange student and on the way back US customs held up the bus for about 2 hours why while they questioned him and verified his story. I would think that Despres should have gotten at least as much scrutiny given the array of weapons he was carrying
Just me but you can let all 0f the Mexicans in if you want but this guy should have been stopped.
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