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<p>SEOUL, South Korea -- More than 220,000 South Koreans have been victims of online identity theft in connection with a popular Web-based game, the site's operator said Monday.</p> <p>The case reveals the growing problems with information protection in the world's most wired country.</p>

Nine counties in the Rochester and Finger Lakes region will receive $37 million dollars to help diversify the economy, and move beyond its reliance on the struggling manufacturing sector. Rochester was one of thirteen regions selected nationally for the new Workforce Innovation Regional Economic Development -- or W.I.R.E.D. initiative. The area will get $15 million over three years from the Department of Labor. Another $22 million has been pledged by twenty one local partners, including the Greater Rochester Enterprise, Monroe County, U of R and RIT. The money will be used to attract companies and to train workers in several...

Same source: Persistent themes in art suggest an evolutionary adaptation. We, as well as the ancient Greeks, admire the Hermes of Praxiteles, above Hardwired to seek beauty Denis Dutton January 13, 2006 THROUGHOUT history and across cultures, the arts of homo sapiens have demonstrated universal features. These aesthetic inclinations and patterns have evolved as part of our hardwired psychological nature, ingrained in the human species over the 80,000 generations lived out by our ancestors in the 1.6 million years of the Pleistocene. The existence of a universal aesthetic psychology has been suggested, not only experimentally, but by the fact that...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (Nov. 17, 2005) -- Lance Cpl. Grant A. Paschali, a native of Aurora, Ill., spent his childhood playing with G.I. Joes and camping in the woods. He had a BB gun and knife collection and wore camouflage clothes, so it wasn’t a big surprise when he joined the Marine Corps seven days after his 19th birthday. Since he left for Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, Calif., Paschali has been living his childhood dream, and found the reality of life in the military to be a gratifying experience. “I’ve always been in shape, and...

Wired magazine, the bible of the tech set, may have its finger on the pulse of all that's cool. But the San Francisco publication has been using decidedly uncool tactics when it comes to getting some people to renew their subscriptions. San Francisco resident Bob McMillan discovered this after choosing to allow his longtime subscription to lapse late last year. "I like the magazine, " he told me. "I just didn't have time to read it anymore." First came the usual letters warning McMillan, 36, that his subscription was up and that he wouldn't get any more copies of Wired...

Probe Can't Confirm Sources in Freelancer's Stories for 'Wired News' Published: May 09, 2005 4:55 PM ET updated 8:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO An investigation into the sourcing and accuracy of news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading Internet news site concluded that the existence of dozens of people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed. Wired News, which publishes some articles from Wired magazine, paid for the review of stories by one of its frequent contributors, Michelle Delio, 37, of New York City. It was expected to disclose results late Monday. The review determined that dozens of...

Who Invented G.S.?Technology Review retracted two articles after deciding a key source was fictitious. The troubling question: whether this is a one-time screw-up by the writer, or a recurring pattern.by David Goldenberg on March 22 at 06:13 PM Michelle Delio is a journalist based in New York City. That much we do know. Whether her articles are accurate or not has become unclear. Two of Delio’s articles for the website of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's magazine, Technology Review, were disputed by their subject, Hewlett-Packard, which claimed it had found that an anonymous source she described within the company couldn't...

Oct. 13, 2004 | Speculation continues to run wild about President Bush's mystery bulge. Since Friday, when Salon first raised questions about the rectangular bulge that was visible under Bush's suit coat during the presidential debates, many observers in the press and on the Internet have wondered aloud whether the verbally and factually challenged president might be receiving coaching via a hidden electronic device. Now a technical expert who designs and makes such devices for the U.S. military and private industry tells Salon that he believes the bulge is indeed a transceiver designed to receive electronic signals and transmit them...

Oct. 8, 2004 | Was President Bush literally channeling Karl Rove in his first debate with John Kerry? That's the latest rumor flooding the Internet, unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television camera during the Miami debate. The image shows a large solid object between Bush's shoulder blades as he leans over the lectern and faces moderator Jim Lehrer. The president is not known to wear a back brace, and it's safe to say he wasn't packing. So was the bulge under his well-tailored jacket a hidden receiver, picking up transmissions from someone offstage...

CHANHASSEN, Minnesota -- Bush campaign aides are laughing off widespread Internet suggestions that President Bush was wired during his first debate with John Kerry, to get help from advisers. A photo taken during the September 30th event appears to show a small, boxy shape between the president's shoulder blades. Musings on various Web sites suggest it could have been a radio receiver so the president's aides could feed him answers during the debate. Spokesman Scott Stanzel calls the idea "ridiculous," and adds, "Some people have been spending too many hours looking at left-wing conspiracy Web sites." He adds, "Did you...

Thanks to the anonymous tipster who emailed this photo to me. The email reads, "This photo was published in the German magazine Der Fumfenshinckenhappengruppengebegrussendinkenhabst. Look carefully at Kerry's left shoulder and you will see inside the red circle the unmistakable outline of a wire running beneath Kerry's jacket up toward his left ear. Kerry clearly was wired for sound for the first debate and probably the second as well. I'm checking all the photos of the second debate I can get my hands on now." Hmmmmm.

Slate's Democratic Debate Drinking Game Get drunk on political discourse! By June Thomas Posted Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2003, at 10:08 AM PT This Thursday evening, the nine remaining candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination will meet in Phoenix for the fourth debate of the year. If these events have started to blend together, why not grab a bottle or two of your favorite tipple and bring on the blurriness by playing Slate's debate drinking game. Cheers! Take one drink if: A candidate mentions an ordinary American by name A candidate mentions Bill Clinton A candidate mentions John Ashcroft A candidate...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It may be illegal, immoral and certainly ill-advised, but selling every usable part of your body could fetch upward of $45 million, according to a survey in the August issue of Wired magazine. Even an overweight, out-of-shape body could bring millions when broken down to its valuable fluids, tissues and germ-fighting antibodies. There is, of course, a major catch: Many of the valuable human body parts are those a person could not live without. But it does lay to rest the old concept that the human body, when broken down to its basic elements, is only...

Like any number of webloggers trying to make their mark with commentary on the war in Iraq, Sean-Paul Kelley knew geography and career experience didn't favor him. Kelley -- the man behind the wildly popular site The Agonist -- lives in Texas, worlds away from the war's front lines. And his reporting résumé added up to a mere three weeks at a local paper. Still, for the last few weeks, he had managed to post several dozen war-related news items a day on his site. Some of the information was attributed to news outlets and other sources, but much of...

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There's a joke that says that it's 99 percent of politicians who give the rest a bad name. Mac users may feel this way upon hearing that a Wired article reveals that Macs are the ugly stepchildren in our nation's capital. The story reports that the Senate Office of the Sergeant at Arms (SAA), which makes technology recommendations to senators, is strongly anti-Mac. The SAA has eliminated almost all Macs on Capitol Hill with the exception of three offices: Kennedy's, Sen. Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota) and the office of the Democratic Policy Committee. "The SAA's recommendations aren't mandatory, but those...