SURPRISE, Ariz. — A 97-year-old Surprise woman who has voted in the past 19 presidential elections said she finds herself a casualty in the voter ID battle.
Shirley Preiss cannot register in Arizona for the November elections without proof of citizenship.
“I’m a legal American,” Preiss said. “I’m born here. Born and raised in America.”
The Arizona law [...]

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I really don’t see the need for solid state storage when hard drives are so cheap, so large, and keep getting faster.
Western Digital developing 20,000RPM Raptor to take on SSDs?
You read that right. Bit-tech has it from “several sources close to the hard drive industry” that Western Digital is working on a 20,000RPM followup to [...]

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H1, one of the data center owned by The Planet in Houston, Texas has caught fire resulting in thousands of websites being offline. According to an estimate 9000 servers are affected and they are currently down.
The Planet one of the largest privately held dedicated server hosting provider, has six wholly owned and managed state-of-the-art data [...]

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This article could have also been titled: “Study concludes that dudes don’t want to lose half their stuff”
Bachelor Carl Weisman got fed up of being classified as a playboy, a loser or a commitment-phobe so he set out to find out exactly why he and a growing number of eligible men were steering clear of [...]

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Talk about a gas guzzler… Police seized a truck and trailer equipped with a trap door that was used at least three times to siphon thousands of gallons of BP diesel fuel from underground storage tanks at a Tic Toc Food Mart in Mercer County.
“You got to have a little respect for this,” Hermitage police [...]

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A Website set up by the Epilepsy Foundation has been hit by hackers, according to an Associated Press report.
An official with the foundation said computer hackers breached the foundation’s site, bombarding it with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
The images can be harmful to people with photosensitive epilepsy, who sometimes [...]

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While I don’t think this is huge news (Flash “effects and transitions” are “slow and annoying”), it’s still good to see more open source platforms.
Flash’s future lies in media delivery (youtube, gawker, etc) in which they now compete with Silverlight.
Having TV’s able to access hulu and iplayer would be cool but I don’t think it [...]

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Huh?!? Apple offered OSX for free, but was declined for not being open source. Now they’re going with Windows?!? Will OLPC = “One License Per Child” now? I don’t really see the purpose of using a commercial OS, on a stripped down laptop, for third world countries, when it requires more resources and costs more. [...]

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An Oregon man issued a series of parking citations to a uniformed police officer who parked his patrol car next to a “No Parking” sign while he went to buy food at a Chinese restaurant last month in Portland.
Eric Bryant says he approached Officer Chad Stensgaard, but the cop dismissed his concerns about the illegal [...]

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You know what sucks? A lot of people in the US won’t protest something much more important, but these guys in Norway, who obviously don’t have a war or loss of freedoms to protest, are still taking to the streets to voice their dissent.
In this clip she says the protesters in San Francisco will not [...]

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News Corp in talks to join Microsoft on Yahoo bid
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and News Corp are in talks about a joint bid for Yahoo Inc that would add MySpace to the Yahoo-Microsoft combination proposed by the world’s largest software maker, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The talks with News Corp, [...]

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WASHINGTON–In the long-running Real ID staring match, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ended up being the first to blink.
Homeland Security announced Wednesday that all 50 states and the District of Columbia will be technically Real ID-compliant by the May 11, 2008 deadline–even though many states actually have rejected the concept and have zero plans [...]

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Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.
The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why.
A vital barrier between the brain and the main blood [...]

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly flowing into the coffers of terrorist groups.
In remarks to Silicon Valley executives at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Mukasey said the economy and national security of the United States are increasingly threatened by violations [...]

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All Things Considered, March 12, 2008 · The number of students enrolled in computer science programs is at its lowest in at least a decade.
“Comp Sci” was one of the hottest majors during the dot-com boom of the late ’90s, but the numbers dropped after the bust of 2001.
Now, despite a strong market for [...]

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