"For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."

Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091119/ts_ynews/ynews_ts988

>>	Gentlemen! Junior Field Reporter 09/11/20(Fri)14:01 No.2832   File: 1258754473431.jpg -(47327 B, 297x470) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Fox News is a neverending Production Error.

Today we're discussing an incident in which a school employee lost his job after leaving a
comment on the website of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper. After the school employee responded to the newspaper's
poll of 'the strangest thing you've ever eaten' with a feline-inspired vulgarity, Kurt Greenbaum, the site's director
of social media, tracked down the commenter's identity through his IP address and reported him to school officials.
When confronted, the school employee resigned from his job."

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/19/0526239/Vulgar-Comment-On-Newspaper-Site-Costs-Man-His-Job

The comment in question:

"I have eaten many different animals (or at least parts of them), including rattlesnake, crocodile, alligator, iguana,
turtle, and many different molluscs, arthropods, echinoids, and whatnot from sea or river. I have also eaten squirrel,
bear, dog, and cat. So, I can say I have eaten pussy, and you can interpret or misinterpret it any way you want. Oh,
and woof-woof, too."

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"A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told visiting CIA director Leon Panetta that any new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan must take into account Pakistan's concerns, especially fears that more troops could push militants across the border into Pakistan, according to a statement by Gilani.

The CIA is believed to be behind the more than 40 missile strikes to have hit suspected al-Qaida and Taliban targets over the last year close to the border region. American officials do not generally acknowledge the attacks, which are unpopular among many here."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6VD6wVTmAD9C391H00

"YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site.

The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels.

These include National Geographic, Columbia, as well as most Google and YouTube channels.

The software engineer behind the technology, Ken Harrenstien, is deaf.

Currently YouTube offers a manual captioning service but video makers tend not to use it.

"The majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me," Mr Harrenstien wrote in the Google blog.

His solution combines automatic speech recognition with the current caption system.

The translation is not always perfect (in a demonstration the phrase "sim card" becomes "salmon" in text), but Mr Harrenstien says that the technology "will continue to improve with time"."

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Nasa's experiment last month to find water on the Moon was a major success, US scientists have announced.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8359744.stm

http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/11/18/navy-finds-lax-behavior-aboard-sub-in-collision-2/

The crew aboard a U.S. submarine made dozens of errors before the vessel collided with an American warship in the Persian Gulf, an accident that exposed lax leaders who tolerated sleeping, slouching and a radio room rigged with music speakers, a Navy review found.

Navy investigators placed blame for the March collision on the submarine's "ineffective and negligent command leadership," including what they called a lack of standards and failure to adequately plan for crossing the busy Strait of Hormuz.

The USS Hartford, a nuclear-powered submarine based in Groton, Conn., collided with the USS New Orleans, a San Diego-based Navy amphibious ship, on March 20 in the narrow, heavily traveled strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.

"Reminiscent of Star Trek phasers and ray guns seen in Sci-fi movies and comic books, Canadian scientists are reporting development of an internal on-off "switch" that paralyzes animals when exposed to a beam of ultraviolet light.

According to the researchers from Simon Fraser University the test subjects remain paralyzed even when the light is turned off. However, when exposed to ordinary or natural light the paralysis wears off and the animals regain consciousness."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017034223?Canadian%20Scientists%20Develop%20Medical%20Paralysis%20Beam%20Similar%20To%20Star%20Trek's%20Phaser

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/17/ibm_1401_fiftieth_anniversary/

But just as the US would reclaim lost ground with the Mercury space program, IBM would battle back with the 1401, a seminal stored-program machine fated to become the most popular computer of the 1960s.

This year marks the machine's 50th anniversary, and last week, at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum, three of the system's founding fathers gathered for a night of nostalgia. Introducing the venerable trio - chief architect Francis Underwood, project head Charles Branscomb and planning manager Sheldon Jacobs - current Big Blue marketing boss John Iwata called them "IBM's version of the Mercury astronauts".

>>	Junior Field Reporter 09/11/18(Wed)06:52 No.2808   File: 1258555928246.jpg -(325129 B, 1600x1200) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>2807

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Junior Field Reporter 09/11/18(Wed)14:46 No.2813   File: 1258584413438.png -(98555 B, 702x597) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>2807 >75 MHz Pentium >modern From what I've heard it was 5.8MHz not 75MHz. Still pretty damn fast for the time, IIRC most personal computers didn't reach that until around '86. Also, Colossus was only partially programmable, It was a code-breaking computer. The US Army's ENIAC (developed independently from Colossus) was the first general-use computer that could be easily reprogrammed without taking it apart.

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Junior Field Reporter 09/11/19(Thu)06:20 No.2819   File: 1258640407029.jpg -(13457 B, 308x200) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>2813 >Colossus Loved "The Forbin Project". Never mind the Illuminati/ZOG/Freemasons/insert shadowy secret overgovernment of your choice here, I wonder how the tinfoil (ass)hatters would vc: undure under a combined American/Russian AI ruling the world, and which was invincible?

>>	Friend Computer 09/11/19(Thu)23:56 No.2822   File: 1258703782310.gif -(48381 B, 358x348) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. >>2819 >a combined American/Russian AI ruling the world Commie treason talk!

"Did the Obama administration really pump billions of dollars into phantom congressional districts?

Republicans, bloggers and conservative think tanks have been circulating reports suggesting that money intended to create jobs and shore up the economy was unaccounted for, misused or lost in some sort of bookkeeping black hole."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_bi_ge/us_stimulus_phantom_districts

"European companies spent on average 8.1% more on research and development in 2008 than they did in 2005 according to a ranking released in the European Union.

Two EU companies - Germany's Volkswagen and Finland's Nokia - and five US companies - including Microsoft, General Motors and Pfizer - are among the top 10 R&D investors. The world's biggest single investor was Japan's Toyota, with 7.61 billion Euros (1 Euro=$ 1.5 approx.)

The trends are released in the EU's 2009 R&D investment scoreboard, with a survey of 2,000 companies (1,000 from the EU, others mostly from the US and Japan) that represent 80% of R&D spending by businesses worldwide.

The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU noted that the increase in the 27 member European bloc is "roughly the same annual increase two years running," despite the economic crisis."

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017041704?Europeans%20Surpass%20American%20And%20Japanese%20in%20R&D%20Spending