A melee broke out Tuesday afternoon at Playland Amusement Park when Muslim visitors became angry that the park was enforcing its ban on headgear by prohibiting the women from wearing their traditional head coverings on some rides. Police from at least nine agencies converged on the park begin... Read more...
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out US universities are reportedly using endowment funds to make deals that may force thousands from their land in Africa. Photograph: Boston Globe via Getty Images Harvard and ot... Read more...
Texting and driving don't go well together – though not in the way you might think. Computer hackers can force some cars to unlock their doors and start their engines without a key by sending specially crafted messages to a car's anti-theft system. They can also snoop at where you've been b... Read more...
Legendary comic Carlin comes back to the Beacon theater to angrily rant about airport security, germs, cigars, angels, children and parents, men, names, religion, god, advertising, Bill Jeff and minorities. This is George Carlin’s 1999 HBO Special (from The Beacon Theater New York). It is Geor... Read more...
Inmates in at least a third of California's prisons are believed to be refusing meals in solidarity with maximum-security prisoners at Pelican Bay. Inmates in at least 11 of California's 33 prisons are refusing meals in solidarity with a hunger strike staged by prisoners in one of the system's spec... Read more...
An online break-in at a defense contractor left tens of thousands of .mil email users at risk of having their account illegally accessed or even hijacked for nefarious purposes. A hacker collective that calls itself AntiSec said Monday that it had stolen 90,000 military email addresses and en... Read more...
Who is going to be a successful entrepreneur? Prolific early stage investor Ron Conway's firm SV Angel gathered responses from 300 founders to try to answer that question. It's not an exact science, but it seems young co-founders doing their second startup tend to produce better results than o... Read more...
Trust - (n.) reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. —Synonyms 1. certainty, belief, faith. Trust, assurance, confidence imply a feeling of security. Trust implies instinctive unquestioning belief in and reliance upon something: to ... Read more...
The US government is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage "fake people" on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues. The contract calls for the development of "Persona Management Software" which would help the u... Read more...