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NEW YORK – Recalling Dan Brown's bestselling novel "The Da Vinci Code," computer experts have discovered strange anomalies in the Obama birth record released by the White House. They include a different birth registration number that shows up in "hidden text," remnants of the short-form certificate apparently bleeding through the long-form and a "smiley face" in the registrar's stamp that does not show up on other recently issued Hawaii birth records. Curiously, in a simple process run by Optical Character Recognition software that reveals hidden text, the registration number 10611 turns up, instead of 10641, the number displayed on the...

Privacy rules don't apply to Internet messages, court says Federal agents do not need a search warrant to monitor a suspect's computer use and determine the e-mail addresses and Web pages the suspect is contacting, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. In a drug case from San Diego County, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco likened computer surveillance to the "pen register" devices that officers use to pinpoint the phone numbers a suspect dials, without listening to the phone calls themselves. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of pen registers in 1979, saying callers have...

Being a billionaire has a number of well-documented advantages. One is that if you are running for President you can start out-spending your opponents pretty early on, and use your spending to define them before they can define themselves. You don’t need to wait while you raise money, or while you get nominated by your party. You don’t even need to wait while parties select their nominees, as you can start defining messages which play well against potential opponents. Let’s look at a few possible Bloomberg messages and how they might work. 1. “I’m the outsider. The others are just...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2007 – Troops and their families are exchanging Valentine’s Day video messages on air today through the Military Channel’s “Operation V-Day.” The Discovery Communications cable network is saluting the men and women of the armed forces with a “heartfelt event” allowing them to say hello to the loved ones from whom they are separated. The 24-hour event kicked off at 6 a.m. with troops deployed to Baghdad appearing before a video camera to send messages of love or to read poetry to the special people in their lives. One soldier took it a step farther and...

As I am new here, I hope I get this right. This is a long shot, but I am writing a paper for one of my terrorism classes (DO THIS EVENING!), covering the Madrid Bombing, and have been unsuccessfully searching for what I remember being "declaration's of war," or "resumption of war" to retake Europe found in unexploded backpacks. I remember explicitly reading about something to this effect, but cannot find this information anywhere. Can anyone out there point me in the right direction? Thanks either way.

Registered voters are very popular with campaign workers in the final hours before the mid-term election. Both the Democrats and Republicans in Pima County put an army of volunteers to work as the deadline drew closer. The politically passionate citizens were working the phones, dialing for votes in a last minute rush to get their candidates into office. They do it every election year but this year reports show political candidates are running more ads and making more calls than ever before. They believe it'll bring out the vote, but some voters say it's making them think about skipping the...

Mark Foley is a scumbag! Mark Foley is a scumbag! Mark Foley is a scumbag! Now that that is out of the way I will reveal how I (and a few others) discovered Jordan Edmund was one of the former house pages that participated in sexually explicit instant messages with Rep. Mark Foley. Also I will explain to you why I believe it necessary to reveal Jordan Edmund's identity. You may not agree with my decision, but I hope to explain my reasoning by the end of this story. Read More HERE!

Write a message, put it in a bottle, toss it in the ocean, and someone will eventually get it. They can add to it, or toss it in the trash. Fun timewaster!

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- While on active duty, Tech. Sgt. Jim Callahan wished that there was a way his wife and children could see and hear his voice, even though he was deployed thousands of miles away. Now retired and working as a computer systems analyst at the base library, Mr. Callahan and the rest of the library staff are working to ensure that families of deployed Airmen here have a way to see and hear their deployed loved one by means of a video service, no matter how far apart they are separated. Titled “Goodnight Son,...

While the media has obsessed over two high-profile cases in recent months involving improper handling of classified information, communications involving terrorists have been getting translated by people without any security clearances—and there’s been nary a whimper from most of the Washington press corps. There are 119 inmates in the federal prison system with “specific ties” to international Islamic terrorist organizations, and almost all of them are able to communicate with the outside world through phone calls and letters. (Full disclosure: this journalist broke the story on the front page of the Washington Times two weeks ago.) Not only did the...

"NEW YORK The cover story by Matt Bai in the upcoming Sunday issue of The New York Times Magazine profiles the man some liberals allegedly consider a possible new “messiah” for the Democratic party, George Lakoff. An adviser to the party on “framing” issues, he wrote “Don't Think of an Elephant”-- a book about politics and language based on his own linguistic theories." Also from the article: "With the debate over social security, Democrats explained that Bush was going to privatize it, which frightened the public. To represent this idea, Democrats portrayed the president as "an old-fashioned traveling salesman, with...

LISBON, PORTUGAL - Sister Lucia Marto, the last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima, has died, Portuguese media reported. She was 97. Sister Lucia, a Roman Catholic nun, had been ill for the past three months and died Sunday at the Convent of Carmelitas in Coimbra, 120 miles north of Lisbon, TSF radio reported, citing family sources. Lucia and two of her cousins, siblings Jacinta and Francisco, said in 1917 that the Virgin Mary had been appearing to them once a month and predicting...

NOTE: If I know anything about the rabid naysayers on FR, at least some of the RELIGIOUS [vs spiritual] types will wail and rant that ANYTHING having to do with numbers and The Bible has to be crossing the line into dealing with Biblically forbidden NUMEROLOGY. This is nonsense. The dictionary definition of “numerology” makes clear that numerology is the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one’s birth, “to determine their supposed influence on one’s life, future, etc.” [Quix color, bold emphasis on the definition from: HERE: http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0562554.html Clearly, the Biblically prohibited issue is INTEREST IN,...

Does anyone know of any resource online (or software) where I can write a text message and then send it to a wireless phone rather than having to manually enter in the information on my cell phone? I know it is doable because the Polar Express movie site where you can send a short message in order to promote their movie.

DUBAI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Following is a chronology of major statements attributed to Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden since Sept. 11, 2001. Some experts believe video or audio messages from bin Laden and his Egyptian lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri might be signals to followers to trigger attacks. Dates of messages by Osama bin Laden: Oct. 30, 2004 - Days before the U.S. presidential election, bin Laden in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera television tells Americans President George W. Bush has deceived them and the United States could face more strikes like Sept. 11. May 6, 2004 - Islamist Web...

Mail, not phone, might be best for interstellar messages. If an extra terrestrial wanted to send a field report describing all she had learned about Earth, she might be better off writing rather than phoning. A new analysis has concluded that a physical object would be a more efficient way to send a long message to the stars than a beam of radio waves. So while we scour the heavens for radio broadcasts from other worlds, we should also search our planetary backyard for a parcel of alien information, says Christopher Rose, an electrical engineer at Rutgers University, Piscataway, New...

Something bad is happening to Pings, 'My Comments', Messages........I hope it isn't permanent......Make it stop, Please

San Diego – A former sailor aboard a San Diego-based ship allegedly praised a deadly terror attack on a U.S. destroyer and communicated with a British man arrested on suspicion of having terrorist ties, according to a court document unsealed Friday. The sailor on the USS Benfold, whose name has not been released, allegedly sympathized with the jihad cause and sent e-mails to anti-Western Web sites run by Babar Ahmad. British police arrested Ahmad, 30, earlier this week on a U.S. extradition warrant charging that he used the Internet to help Taliban fighters recruit and raise money. The USS Benfold...

Giuliani describes 9/11 rescue efforts Giuliani: 'Could not conceive of the entire tower coming down' Wednesday, May 19, 2004 Posted: 1541 GMT (2341 HKT) NEW YORK (CNN) -- One day after former New York fire and police department officials drew criticism over communication problems that plagued rescue efforts during the World Trade Center attacks, the boss of both agencies has told the 9/11 commission Wednesday that the rescuers' performance demonstrated a "superb command structure." Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is speaking on the second of two days of public hearings at Manhattan's New School University looking at how the...

Does anyone have any idea why the text of my replies (or replies to me) would run off the screen to the right? It never used to do that? I've tried the F5 key and using various size text (but that only makes the sentences run off the screen in smaller or larger sizes). Any suggestions would be appreciated. It's a pain to have to scroll right to read the full text of someone's reply. Thanks DentsRun