Please have a look at my latest exploration of youthful opportunity.
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/adamfate/1497418
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Posted Thursday, December 23rd 2010 at 5:21AM
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U.S. News & World Report (12/06/10) Ben Baden
Computer software engineer is one of the fastest growing careers, with the U.S. Labor Department projecting that employment of such professionals will soar by nearly 300,000 jobs between 2008 and 2018. ...
Posted Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 at 4:44PM
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iTnews Australia (12/17/10) John Hilvert
Several countries, including Brazil, China, and India, are expressing their support for a proposal currently being considered by United Nations to create an intergovernmental working group that would integr ...
Posted Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 12:39PM
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Secrecy News (12/14/10) Steven Aftergood
The JASON independent scientific advisory panel has produced a report on cybersecurity for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that says a fundamental understanding of the science of cybersecurity is neede ...
Posted Tuesday, December 21st 2010 at 10:46AM
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State-by-State Results
Below is an interactive map showing to what extent each state has adopted ACM and CSTA's nationally recognized computer science education standards into state standards and whether computer science counts as a core mathemati ...
Posted Friday, December 17th 2010 at 1:33PM
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Boehner Taps Mac Thornberry to Lead Cybersecurity Initiative
December 16, 2010 - Eric Chabrow
When the 112th Congress convenes in January, and begins to tackle the unfinished business of the 111th Congress to reform federal government cybersecu ...
Posted Friday, December 17th 2010 at 1:28PM
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by Colby Hall | 10:19 am, December 10th, 2010
Ron Paul is nothing if not an conservative iconoclast. The Texas Republican House Representative, with deep libertarian roots is taking a counter-intuitive departure from the traditional and establishe ...
Posted Saturday, December 11th 2010 at 11:58AM
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And they have hardened their site. They will remain under attack of course, but for now use:
http://www.wikileaks.ch
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Posted Saturday, December 11th 2010 at 9:57AM
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Representative Ron Paul, Texas Republican and author of “End the Fed,” will take control of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve.
House Financial Services chairman-elect Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican, selected Paul, 75, ...
Posted Saturday, December 11th 2010 at 5:38AM
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(CNN) -- The Poison Pill. The Doomsday Files. Or simply, The Insurance.
Whatever you call the file Julian Assange has threatened to release if he's imprisoned or dies or WikiLeaks is destroyed, it's impossible to stop.
"It's all tech talk to sa ...
Posted Wednesday, December 8th 2010 at 4:39PM
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I've finished my first Scratch project and uploaded it to the Scratch website here:
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/adamfate/1465493
To try it out you need to download Scratch, create and/or log in to your user account, then download the project. ...
Posted Tuesday, December 7th 2010 at 3:01PM
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WikiLeaks founder's lawyers also accuse US state department of inappropriate behaviour in not respecting attorney-client protocol
Sam Jones and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 5 December 2010 16.16 GMT
Julian Assange's lawyer Mark Stephens app ...
Posted Sunday, December 5th 2010 at 10:39PM
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10 Information Security Growth Areas for the New Year
December 3, 2010 - Upasana Gupta, Contributing Editor
Jobs may remain scarce elsewhere, but heading into 2011, information security is still a growth industry.
Academic institutions such as ...
Posted Saturday, December 4th 2010 at 8:11PM
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New York Times (12/01/10) Edward Wyatt; Tanzina Vega
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a broad framework for the commercial use of Web data and announced its support of a plan that would enable consumers to choose if they want t ...
Posted Saturday, December 4th 2010 at 6:56AM
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CNet (12/01/10) Marguerite Reardon
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski recently previewed new Net neutrality rules designed to preserve the Web "as a platform for innovation, investment, competition, and free e ...
Posted Saturday, December 4th 2010 at 6:47AM
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Mike Adams
Natural News
Dec 2, 2010
It is now being revealed that US Senators slipped up in a big way when passing the Food Safety Modernization Act on Tuesday: They added what are effectively “new taxes” into the bill, and according to the U.S. ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 1:57PM
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By Nathan Diebenow
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 -- 12:11 am
A Republican congressman from Iowa has accused has accused President Obama of publishing "slavery reparations" through Congress.
"Figure this out, Madame Speaker: We have a very, ver ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 9:24AM
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Justices sound ready to force the state to release more than 40,000 inmates to ease overcrowding.
By David G. Savage, Tribune Washington Bureau
December 1, 2010
Reporting from Washington —
California's bid to block a court order requiring the ...
Posted Thursday, December 2nd 2010 at 8:59AM
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By Barbara H. Peterson
Why did Monsanto Develop an Aluminum Resistance Gene?
Monsanto is currently marketing an aluminum resistance gene. Here’s the spin, folks:
Small-scale, resource-poor farmers in developing countries face daily stresses, ...
Posted Wednesday, December 1st 2010 at 3:14PM
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