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On slashdot today, it was reported that US government officials had issued a warning to the U.S. cybersecurity industry after officials saw a posting on a Jihadist Web site. This news isn’t all that earth shattering really: we know that Islamist Jihadi would like few things better than to launch an electronic attack on th... »

One thing that all motorcyclists quickly become aware of is that people in cars are blind. Right of way violations and near misses caused by this blindness are par for the course for any experienced motorcyclist and those of us who survive all come up with coping mechanisms. Mostly, these mechanisms boil... »

In the wake of Liam Magills case in Australias high court overturning damages awarded to him for pain and suffering inflicted on him by his ex wife through paternity fraud, there is a movement at high levels to give men the right to disestablish paternity via DNA testing. Currently, the courts and the... »

I can remember back in the late ’80s being told that westerners do not understand the Middle East. Westerners, the theory went could not understand the forces that shaped Middle Eastern culture because those forces have little or no influence on events in the west. Perhaps they were right. It’s been a decade... »