Phil Neches, but he has three degrees from Caltech and was the founder of Teradata, the database machine company (back in the 1980s), and sits on the Caltech Board of Trustees -- definitely a pro-IT guy, and very, very smart.

One of the great ironies of the information age is that, while the late twentieth century will undoubtedly have recorded more data than any other period in history, it will also almost certainly have lost more information than any previous era.

700 billion bailout is small beans. Geithner worries that because the troubled insurance giant American International Group (AIG) is a conduit for the banks' use of credit default swaps, a collapse of AIG (as an unintended consequence of dismantling the big banks) could be catastrophic. AIG's more than 300 million terrified holders of insurance-related investments and pension funds, who have investments totaling $20 trillion (U.S. GDP is $14 trillion), could suddenly rush for redemptions -- the equivalent of a run on a bank. Geithner would face a worldwide insurance collapse to accompany his global banking collapse.

some versions of Diebold's vote tabulation system, known as the Global Election Management System (Gems), include a button that allows someone to delete audit logs from the system.

an online how-to guide for protecting your private data against government spying.

Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption,

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