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    Defense Department Wants $660 Million To Fulfill FOIA Request

    Ok, I'll have to rain on the parade a bit--I work directly with people charged with doing some of DOD's FOIA requests. You should be glad that we have a system that diffferentiates between information that can be released and information that you and I wouldn't want to hand to people that would...
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    Upgrading Windows from 1.0 to Windows 8 Pro

    Dragon--I've got an old Abit KT7 (AMD K7 CPU) system that's running Win 7 surprisingly well. I think it would be good for the versions going backwards (it started its life in 2001 running Win 98). Not sure how it would be up against Win 8 of course.... Of course to have a working Win 7...
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    Customer Has Positive Experience At Best Buy

    I actually just had a very nice bit of service from BB in dropping off some items for e-waste disposal--the customer service pesron was genuinely friendly, professional, efficient, and didn't try to upsell or otherwise ask if I was buying anything that day. It was so refreshingly good service...
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    Voice Activated Popcorn Launching Machine

    This just needs to be slightly overclocked/scaled up--to a 12oz delivery system ;o) It would solve popcorn's aerodynamic accuracy issue too....
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    Black Hat: Hotel Keycard Lock Picking In Under 200ms

    to making $$$$$ by shorting Onity's stock--if there were such a thing. I checked--its a privately held company.... Good article nonetheless. Just goes to show another of the assumptions we all make in our lives that aren't particularly good ones.
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    Rare-Earth Mining Rises Again in United States

    It is "dirtier" because of the significant ratio if byproduct having heavy metal contamination and radioactive materials (low level activity radionuclides). Very poisionous, and the radioactivity is very damaging if ingested. This means the literally tons of processing byproducts has to be...
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