Be prepared for a search of what’s on your laptop as you cross into the United States these days. Two years ago a freelance journalist named Bill Hogan returned home to Virginia from a trip to Germany and had his laptop seized at Dulles International Airport. U.S. Customs agents reportedly told him he’d been selected [...]
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Also tagged Air Travel, Airports, Bill Hogan, Child Pornography, Customs, Data Seizure, Dulles International Airport, Journalists, TSA, Warrantless Search
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whitehouse — April 22, 2010 — Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, answers your questions about the clean energy economy. WhiteHouse.gov/earthday
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Also tagged Air Quality, Automotive Sector, Batteries, Carbon Cap, CEQ, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Congress, Copenhagen, DOE, DOT, Earth Day 2010, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystems, Education, Employment, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Star, Environment, EPA, Everglades, Fuel Economy Standards, Funding, Green Energy, Green Tech, Greenhouse Gases, Homeowners, HomeStar, India, Investments, Jobs, Legislation, National Security, Nuclear Power, Pentagon, Rapid Mass Transit, Rebates, Recovery Act, Regulations, Renewable Energy, Research and Development, Retrofitting, Smart Grid, Solar Power, Tax Credits, Technology, Universities, Water, Wind Power
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A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause damage and disrupt data on servers on an undisclosed date but was caught by [...]
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Also tagged Colorado, Colorado Springs, CSOC, Databases, Hackers, Hacking, James Duchak, Malicious Code, Malware, TSA
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
It’s not often that the President and the Vice President get together for a town hall, but the occasion yesterday was something special for Vice President Biden. They were in Florida, one of the sites just announced for a massive down payment on high-speed rail, the future of transportation, and a great source of jobs in [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute professor Illah Nourbakhsh presents the CREATE Lab project ChargeCar, a community approach to electric cars. The lecture is part of the Sustainability and Computer Science Seminar, a forum for discussion of ways in which computer science can and will contribute to sustainability, energy, and the environment, and to foster greater consciousness, [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Michigan’s inability to raise enough money to match federal transportation dollars forced the state’s Transportation Commission Thursday to delay hundreds of road and bridge projects scheduled for the next five years. The state stands to go from spending roughly $1.4 billion on roads this year with the help of federal stimulus money to around $600 [...]
5 areas of the country have the population and geography to support high-speed rail now. But each route poses unique challenges. [...] The US hopes to have high-speed lines operational within the next decade. Sound impossible? It’s not. Other nations have shown the way. In 1990, Spain’s rail network was in even worse shape than [...]
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