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First off, I have never started a thread so I hope I'm doing this right. Let me know if this is done properly. I am a big fan of the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. It give the ground elapsed time for each flight. That lead me to wonder what clock time a given event happened. For the computer literate out there in FReeper land, is there a program available where you plug in a given ground elapsed time and it converts to clock time? Or, the launch and return times and dates is plugged in and the elapsed time could...

Clinton Eugene Curtis, a computer programmer from Florida, testified before a congressional panel that there are computer programs that can be used to secretly fix elections. He explains how he created a prototype for Florida Congressman Tom Feeny that would flip the vote 51%-49% in favor of a specified candidate. This happened all the way back in 2001 but you might not have heard anything about this claim unless you searched for it. I've seen a Wired News report on this topic and a few local Florida newspaper stories but otherwise, no real media coverage has been provided. You'd think...

TECHNOLOGY 7887 kHz, Your Home for Classic Cuban Espionage Radio The shortwave radio signals that the alleged Russian spies were using are still surprisingly effective. By Brett Sokol Posted Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at 1:53 PM ET The FBI documents that accompanied last week's arrest of 10 alleged Russian spies are alternately creepy—who knew the Tribeca Barnes & Noble was a hotbed of espionage?—and comical—turns out even foreign spies wanted to cash in on suburban New Jersey's real estate boom. With a nod to Boris and Natasha, the accused are also said to have used short-wave radio, a 1920s-era technology...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- U.S. authorities have charged a man with attempting to board a flight from Puerto Rico with weapons including a stun gun, a switchblade knife and four box cutters. ~ snip ~ Pol was scheduled to take a JetBlue flight to Boston when he was arrested on Monday. In addition to the knives agents found pepper spray and a flight simulator program in his luggage.

<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI (news - web sites) said on Thursday it may have to scrap a new $170 million computer program designed to allow agents to share information instantly and fix a main problem identified after the Sept. 11 attacks. The software is already outdated and inadequate, with the bureau able to use only about one-tenth of the program, an FBI official said on condition of anonymity. Failure of the Virtual Case File software is the latest glitch in the bureau's effort to overhaul its computer system, one of FBI Director Robert Mueller's priorities in the agency's reorganization after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "I am frustrated," Mueller said when asked about the software at a news conference in Birmingham, Alabama. "There were problems we did not anticipate." Investigations showed the FBI and other intelligence agencies failed to share information that could have helped stop the hijackers from crashing four airplanes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon (news - web sites) and a Pennsylvania field. The FBI was criticized for its old system of keeping paper files that could not be accessed by agents in the field. The FBI official said part of the problem was that the FBI was trying to completely revamp a very antiquated system all at once. He said in the future, changes should be done in stages, so software will not be outdated by the time it is launched. "I compare the FBI to changing wheels on a car that is going at 70 miles per hour," the official said at a briefing. Though Mueller said the bureau was trying to salvage the software, the FBI official said there was a "good possibility" the FBI would need a completely new system, which would mean most of the $170 million was worthless.</p>

There has been a rash of teenagers in the area being sexually solicited over e-mail. I would like to know if anyone has knowledge of a program that would let me check my childrens's e-mail. I am using Windows XP. so my kids have their own accounts. Appreciate any info you can give me. Semper Fi.