The man who founded and ran the online sports gambling operation BetOnSports pleaded guilty and agreed to forfeit more than $43 million in proceeds, prosecutors announced Friday. Now, I know that’s a strong opening statement, but consider this: The government decides where your kids go to school; what curriculum they’ll study; and even develops long-term educational plans just like the Communists devised five-year plans.
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Think you deleted your cookies? Think again
More than half of the Internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers found. Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser.
Will Rupert Murdoch Lead Way for Paid Online Content?
You could almost hear the sighs of relief in the hushed, thickly carpeted corridors of high-powered media executives on Aug. 6, when News Corp
Twitter blackout left users feeling ‘jittery,’ ‘naked’
Christina Cimino was logging onto Twitter on Thursday morning when something happened that she found deeply unsettling. “I got some weird error message, and I’m like, ‘What’s going on!” the 24-year-old said.
Twitter hit by denial of service attack
An attack on the social networking site Twitter shut the site down for about two hours on Thursday morning, causing headaches in the online community and glitches in other Web sites like Facebook.
Leaving Iran While Looking Over Your Shoulder: A Reporter’s Diary
Two days before leaving Tehran and three weeks after Iranian Intelligence had come around looking for me, I was taking no chances. The notes, essays and photos on the protests I had been regularly sending back for publication would have to be sent to the States separately…with my grandma. She had a flight to the U.S.
Who is the mother of Jude Law’s baby?
On her online model profile, Samantha Burke says she is passionate about fashion and photography, and has aspirations of becoming an actress. But she’s now had to put those dreams on hold for a new project: Being mother to Jude Law’s fourth child
Somali pirates release German ship
Somali pirates released a German cargo ship Saturday that they have held since May, the German Foreign Ministry said.
Black Philadelphia police sue over message board, say it’s racist
A group of black Philadelphia police officers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against their department, alleging an online forum geared toward city police is "infested with racist, white supremacist and anti-African-American content." The suit alleges white officers post on and moderate the privately operated site, Domelights.com, both on and off the job. Domelights’ users “often joke about the racially offensive commentary on the site … or will mention them in front of black police officers,” thus creating “a racially hostile work environment,” according to lawyers for the all-black Guardian Civic League, the lead plaintiff in the suit
Brad Pitt: Don’t chat at the urinal; text instead
Need some social etiquette advice for the digital age?