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Was watching Imus this morning and they did a business news break, and one of the items was, that as of today FBN was putting up their live broadcast on the internet? My, my, and this, days after their lawyers did the whole cease and desist bit with online sites hosting their programming! >B-) Anyone know if FNC is, hopefully, doing the same?

The year is 2011. President Obama has just outlawed the private ownership of firearms, announced that the Constitution has been dissolved and revealed that the United States is going to be replaced by the North American Union, an amalgamation of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Revolution breaks out. Your part in this is to help capture Obama and the renegade Cong (former Congressional leaders). This is the premise of a new online community and game calling itself United States of Earth. The extensive site is almost overwhelming in the sheer amount of information it provides, but centers around a browser-based...

If you're new to social media, it can be extremely overwhelming. While social media courses are available, all it really takes is trial and error on your part in order to learn the basics. For example, a lot of people don't know how important it is to have separate personal and business accounts for Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. Customers and future clients do not want to hear about where you went to eat for lunch or your religious or political views. Unless you are an expert columnist on religion or politics, people don't care to see it. Plus, you could...

This is big. ... Not because its Rupert Murdoch who said it (the chairman of News Corp) Its big because it could set the trend for others to follow. Murdoch says he plans to charge for all the online content. (Would I be blogging on this if I had to pay for it? Would you be reading this if you had to pay for it? ) So when will he start charging?

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US news agency the Associated Press, in a move aimed at protecting its content online, announced on Thursday it was building a "news registry" that would track the use of its stories on the Web. The New York-based AP, a cooperative owned by more than 1,400 US newspapers, said that the news registry will "tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use." "The system will register key identifying information about each piece of content that AP distributes as well as the terms of use of that content, and employ a...

Your husband, an avid gamer and techie, dies of a heart attack, leaving his vast online life ­-- one you don't know much about ­-- in limbo. Eternal Space lets loved ones create customized online gravesites and memorial pages. His accounts, to which you don't know the passwords, go idle. His e-mails go unanswered, his online multiplayer games go on without him and bidders on his eBay items don't know why they can't get an answer from the seller. Web site domains that he has purchased, some of which are now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars,­ will expire, and...

Link only - Senate Approves Disclosing Office Expenses Online

“The full-time residential model of higher education is getting too expensive for a larger share of the American population.” Is it any wonder “more and more students are looking for lower-cost alternatives to attending college?” What does the future hold for higher education? ▪ White students will likely be outnumbered by minority students on college campuses. ▪ People will need to rely on more and more formalized education to advance their careers or change to new ones. ▪ It is estimated that ten years from now, the average cost for a 4 year public college in-state resident will be $31,949.28...

Falling circulations and shrinking advertising revenues have forced dozens of newspapers to close down their presses over the last three years. Among that many, a brave few -- eleven since 2007, by Erica Smith of Paper Cut's count -- have decided to go where the readership and advertising is moving - online We decided to check in on them to see how they're faring. With a few notable exceptions, it wasn't pretty.

In an Opinion/Editorial article titled, “I Am Conservative America”, from today’s The Cypress Times, Publisher John G. Winder announced the start of a new conservative movement in the U.S. Mr. Winder calls the movement, “I Am Conservative America”. The concept is simple enough in that Mr. Winder is asking conservatives everywhere to take a picture of themselves, holding a signs which reads, “I Am Conservative America” and then email that picture to the newspaper. “We’ve already created a new section in The Cypress Times to showcase all the photos we get from conservatives all over America,” said Mr. Winder. “Right...

A New Zealand couple nearly found themselves in a financial hole when their three-year-old daughter bought an earthdigger in an internet auction. The child, Pipi Quinlan, was trying out her online skills while her parents were asleep in bed. They only unearthed the truth when they received an email demand for NZ$20,000 (£8,000) from the seller. Pipi's mother, Sarah, had left the computer logged on.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – As US newspapers shrivel up and die, an unlikely figure is emerging as their potential savior: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch. The much-villified Australian-born media tycoon is preparing to battle against the practice many hold largely responsible for newspapers' current plight -- the "original sin" of giving away their content for free online. The 78-year-old Murdoch announced this week that the days of free are over. He said he planned to begin charging readers of the websites of News Corp. newspapers "within the next 12 months," testing the scheme "first on some of our stronger ones. "We...

Many states are looking for ways to increase their tax revenue by taxing purchases made online. This extends to third party solicitors located in another state. Our Constitution infers that states are restricted from enacting laws that burden or restrict interstate commerce. Let’s stop this tax now.

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Friday, April 17, 2009 Print ShareThisThe free ride may soon be over. For the past decade and a half, most Internet shoppers haven't been forced to pay sales tax while buying goods online. But now, according to CNet News, an alliance of "brick-and-mortar" retailers and state governments has teamed up to end that — and they've crafted federal legislation that may be introduced in Congress as early as next week. Previous attempts in past years to do so have flopped.

Online journalists more confident than traditional brethren; half say political bias at news organizations is OK.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seized the bully pulpit Thursday and reprised the best of his acclaimed campaign skills in an unprecedented Internet town hall from the White House — a direct sales pitch for Americans to get behind his $3.6 trillion budget and be patient as he tries to right the tottering economy. After an opening statement and declaring, "This isn't about me, it's about you," Obama took up a microphone and strolled the ornate East Room, .. .. On Tuesday Obama held a nationally televised news conference, .. calling on an unusual mix of reporters in an apparent...

Present Obama is answering questions submitted over the internet live on the internet. Fox cuts in and out on this, MSNBC is covering it live at this time as well as CNN. Here it is at the link to watch live.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is planning an online town hall-style meeting on the White House's Web site this Thursday. The White House says Obama will answer questions about the economy and other topics at WhiteHouse.gov. Visitors to the Web site can determine what questions the president will answer.

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The following are a series of posts I had over a Youtube video. The video itself was about the Bible Codes, but I could not resist a few posts. Recently I read some good referenced material on Hatred in Islam and wanted to see how these items are reacted to. I think it is instructive. Here are the posts in order. The poster's name is Bakkuto: Nachum (18 hours ago) He hates Jews because Islam teaches him to. The Quran, the suras and hadith are a veritable non-stop diatribe against Jews and how evil Islam considers them to be. He...

The celebrated openness of the Internet -- network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic -- is quietly losing powerful defenders. Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google has traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers. At risk is a principle known as network neutrality: Cable and phone companies that operate the data pipelines are supposed to treat all traffic...

Sources have told WWJ's Vickie Thomas that word will come down Tuesday, when Detroit's two daily newspapers, the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News are expected to announce as many as 300 layoffs, among other big changes. The newspaper, sources said, will also only be delivering printed editions on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, as they move to get more people to subscribe to .pdf versions of the papers. One Detroit News reporter told WWJ that everyone is worried, and at the Detroit Free Press, the mood is grim too, with someone putting up a sign that reads "No Bummer...

When the LHC first went down, it was believed that repairs could get the system up and running by April 2009. Then we saw repairs pushing the timeline back to summer 2009. But now, CERN has arrived at a fork in the road regarding LHC repairs. According to spokesperson James Gillies, the complicated repairs can be simplified into modest Plan A and Plan B approach. Plan A is a quick and dirty fix, getting the particle accelerator online as quickly as possible (late summer 2009) at the cost of operating at lower power. In this scenario, 3 of 8 pressure...

Ian King Arianna Huffington looks set to cement her position as the Queen of Capitol Hill in the next few days. The Times has learnt that the Huffington Post, her influential political website, will confirm within the next week that it has completed a $15 million (£10 million) fundraising from investors. The money will finance the expansion of HuffPo, as it is known, into the provision of local news across the United States and into more investigative journalism. And it will ensure that Ms Huffington's influence continues to spread across the US political scene. She is a close friend of...

Fresh off a US presidential election defeat and further losses in Congress, the Republican Party launched a new website on Tuesday asking members for their ideas on its future. "We are a party of principles and must regain our voice," Republican National Committee chairman Robert Duncan said in a statement announcing the creation of the website, RepublicanForAReason.com. "We need to hear what our volunteers, activists, elected leaders, and party members think about the Republican Party as we rebuild, re-focus, and renew our bond with the American people," Duncan added. The statement said the new website provides a venue for party...

<p>A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher's sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.</p> <p>The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his identification and password to log onto popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in mid-May, a police official in northern Sapporo City said on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.</p>

Has anyone RSVP'd tickets to a McCain/Palin rally online via McCain's official campaign website? I did so today for a rally that I will be driving 5 hours to attend tomorrow morning. I haven't received any confirmation or anything and am starting to get worried. I think tickets are required to attend the event, but the website clearly offers the choice of RSVPing online. I submitted my reservation on the website and a message screen appeared which stated something like "Thanks for signing up for the rally." It was a generic automatic response message. So, has anyone previously done this...

(IsraelNN.com) The Islamist Hamas terrorist organization has initiated an online course in explosives, military weapons and The sophisticated course includes highly detailed practical and theoretical lessons. tactics for would-be jihad fighters. Aimed at the population of the Palestinian Authority, the course is called "Get Ready" and is designed to prepare the population for war with Israel. First exposed outside Palestinian Authority and jihadist circles on Monday by Israel's Channel 10 TV, the sophisticated course includes highly detailed practical and theoretical lessons, as well as sample videos of jihadist attacks. All manner of weapons are described, analyzed and their proper use...

PHOENIX — Starting Thursday, voters who are registered in Arizona but live overseas will be able to vote online through a unique Web-based system offered by the Secretary of State.

Some stuck without power powerless to fight bank fees Friday, September 19, 2008 By Margaret Harding THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH When his power returned without Internet service Monday, Tom Perry had a bit of a financial freakout. "It was kind of a panic-stricken moment there: 'Oh, no, what am I going to do?' " said Perry, whose credit-card and mortgage payment were both due that day. Perry, like many others, pays his bills online. Online banking and bill payment are pushed as the easiest and most efficient ways to handle such transactions, but a power outage such as the one central...

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Looks like things are tied up for the Pearce Who do you support for President? Sen. John McCain Sen. Barack Obama Other

Sen. Barack Obama 765 56.2% Sen. John McCain 563 41.3%

Wikipedia Ate My Homework by: Deborah Lambert, August 11, 2008 Wikipedia, the much-ballyhooed online information source, was recently blamed, along with other online research sites, “for Scotland’s falling exam pass rates,” according to Martyn McLaughlin in the NewsScotsman.com. To the dismay of students, this cut-and-paste info source has also caught the attention of eagle-eyed American professors. Some have decided to eliminate it from their classes altogether. Wikipedia itself reported that “Neil Walters, a history professor at Middlebury College in Vermont,” claimed that “vandalism of Wikipedia was used as a source in reports submitted to him.” Walters’ department adopted a policy...

...Educators who supplement or replace their day jobs with online teaching for local public schools are discovering that the perks of working at home come with hurdles: grappling with awkward or confusing lines of communication with their pupils; gauging student performance without seeing facial expressions; and struggling to withstand the urge to check e-mails from students during weekends. Online courses, mostly in high schools, have proliferated in recent years despite debate about their effectiveness compared with face-to-face instruction. The number of times students enrolled in distance education courses connected with public schools (using Internet, two-way video or other technologies) rose...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested a prominent Internet dissident for violating his probation terms, a rights group said, as the country steps up a pre-Olympic crackdown on dissent to ensure the Games go smoothly. Du Daobin, from the central province of Hebei, was given a suspended sentence for subversion in 2004 having been detained by police in Wuhan for posting online essays in support of fellow dissident, Liu Di. Du was then released into house arrest, Reporters Without Borders said in an emailed statement, but was arrested this week having been accused of posting articles on overseas websites...

BERLIN - More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week. From Thursday, sections of the Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the oldest complete New Testament, will be available on the Internet, said the University of Leipzig, one of the four curators of the ancient text worldwide. High resolution images of the Gospel of Mark, several Old Testament books, and notes on the work made over centuries will appear on www.codex-sinaiticus.net as a first step towards publishing the entire manuscript online...

I think we're all aware of the fact that the looney-left liberals have out done us in using the internet to their political advantage. Just about every time I go to my Yahoo homepage, I see an online ad linking to Barack Obama's website. Well, finally, the "Right" is coming around. The WAPO ran a story today re: RightOnline. Anyone interested in being a player in the Conservative online effort might want to check out their website: http://www.rightonline.com/

Get online and check it out.

Welcome to the most grassroots-driven platform development effort in the history of American politics! The Republican Party is seeking your input as we develop the policies and principles upon which we should stand for the next four years. On this website, you can share your thoughts, participate in polls, and communicate directly with the policymakers who will be shaping the party's agenda. All comments and feedback will be reviewed and taken into full consideration as we prepare for our convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul. We hope that this process will guarantee the greatest amount of public input into any platform in...

Britons can trace Australian ancestors online Last Updated: 11:18AM BST 04/06/2008 Sixteen million Britons related to free settlers who colonised Australia will be able to trace their ancestors online from today.AP Records list the Irish ancestors of Nicole Kidman Although often portrayed as a nation of convicts, Australia's early population was largely based on immigrants who voluntarily sailed from Britain in search of a better life. The details of 9 million people who arrived in New South Wales between 1826 and 1922 are to be made available. More than 2 million of them were free settlers from Britain leaving behind...

A 14-year-old Boise, Idaho, girl has disappeared and is believed to be in danger after meeting a 27-year-old man on the Internet. Police say the girl may be in the Seattle area with the man, who is wanted on a kidnapping warrant. The girl, Saddie "Elaine" Julian, was last seen Wednesday morning. Authorities are asking for the public's help in locating her. She is described as 5 feet tall, weighing 90 pounds, with pale skin, long red hair and a thin build. According to police, Saddie developed an online relationship with Morgan Douglas Jones, 27, of Birmingham, Ala., while playing...

I have been checking out various on-line IT courses for my college age home schooled son. I found this site for $149.00 that features a full menu of options for a flat one year membership, SECURITY+ CERTIFICATION A+ CERTIFICATION ACCOUNTANCY ADOBE CISCO CLAIT CONTACT MANAGEMENT COREL DATABASES DESKTOP DTP ECDL E-QUALS GRAPHICS I-NET+ CERTIFICATION INTERNET LOTUS MCSE MICROSOFT MOS NETWORK+ CERTIFICATION NOVELL PROGRAMMING SERVER+ CERTIFICATION SOFT SKILLS UNIX WEB DEVELOPMENT and the other one in the link--whose typos on their web page do not inspire me with confidence.(My typos I attribute to my Saturday ration od Sam Adams) Bottom Line:...

About a year ago in my first visit to Second Life, the popular online virtual world, I spent half an hour trying to make my avatar, or online character, look like a hotter version of myself — which isn't easy when you don't know how to use the tools. When I finally made it onto Money Island to mingle, a stranger approached me and said, "Hello there, Devon." I froze. Then I tried to run. I was desperately searching for the teleport tool when my sister walked into the room, peered over my shoulder at the computer screen and said,...

If you buy books, movies or other items from Amazon.com, be prepared to pay more soon. The online retail giant isn't raising prices. Gov. Eliot Spitzer is raising taxes - at least he hopes to. Spitzer has proposed closing a loophole in state tax law that allows out-of-state Internet retailers - Amazon.com being the biggest by far - to avoid charging sales tax to New Yorkers for online purchases. Rather than pay tax when they buy online, New York residents are supposed to account for the sales tax on their personal income tax returns. Few do, and the state loses...

The security of the online computer system used by more than three million people to file tax returns is in doubt after HM Revenue and Customs admitted it was not secure enough to be used by MPs, celebrities and the Royal Family. Thousands of "high profile" people have been secretly barred from using the online tax return system amid concerns that their confidential details would be put at risk. This provoked anger from consumer groups and accountants who said the same levels of security should be offered to all taxpayers regardless of their perceived fame. HMRC was responsible for losing...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2007 – A nonprofit group is using a treasure hunt to get people interested in helping military families. “We hope treasure hunters, individuals and corporations will generously donate to the scholarship fund for the families of our brave men and women in uniform who protect our freedoms each and every day,” said Gayle Osterberg, a spokeswoman for the group, ThanksUSA. “More than 1,300 scholarships have been awarded to the kids and spouses of active-duty military personnel in all branches of the service, … including those in the Guard and reserves.” ThanksUSA is a supporter of America...

If you want to be a savvy shopper on Black Friday, you may want to do your buying the day before.This year, many retailers will offer deals traditionally reserved for the day after Thanksgiving on Turkey Day via their Web sites, consumer experts say."I will be on the computer shopping on Thanksgiving Day," said Edgar Dworsky, founder of ConsumerWorld.org, a leading consumer Web site. "Last year, I sat at home on Black Friday and felt so smug not having to go out and fight the crowds."You will, indeed, find crowds if you venture out the day after Thanksgiving to shop....

Dozens of FReepers undoubtedly know this, but, sadly, yr hmbl srvnt does not. Seems to me that I recall an online site, perhaps ESPN or ABC, where one can ''watch'' a graphical play-by-play of virtually any football game. The game one is ''watching'' features a display of a field, where the ball is spotted and where it moves on each play, with a description of the play just run. Many thanks in advance for any and all help, and FReegards!