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Society News Archive. April, May and June '08

1300 corporate fraud convictions in less than 6 years. 6/30
Protests against importing US beef in Korea turn violent. 6/29
ID secure? "should assume their information is floating online" 6/28
South Korea lifts ban on US beef. 6/26
US Supreme Court reduces Exxon fine: $2.5B to $508M. 6/25
Windows 7 planned release is Jan. 2010. 6/25
UN finds free & fair Zimbabwe election impossible. 6/23
Internet domain name changes could be biggest in decades. 6/23
90% of retailers sell age restricted games to kids over the net. 6/23
Earliest known Mayan cities date back to 800 BC. 6/23
More than 1 billion personal computers in use. 6/23
Scotland to try paying smokers to quit. 6/22
Bill Gates to retire from Microsoft as of June 27th. 6/22
Zimbabwe opposition pulls out of election to lessen violence. 6/22
UK to implant RFID tags in prisoners? 6/21
Nigerian oil pipeline blown up by saboteurs. 6/21
War deaths in last 50 years 300% more than popular estimates? 6/20
High payments for doctors promoting drugs raises debate. 6/20
Alleged victims of Pfizer's Nigeria drug testing join law suit. 6/20
New variants of Mac OS X trojan, "AppleScript.THT" reported. 6/20
Safari is the fastest browser? 6/20
New Opera browser compared with Firefox 3. 6/19
Officials halt spraying Calif. residents to kill Australian moth. 6/19
Firefox 3 available, downloads more than previous versions. 6/19
UK to make everyone an organ donor without consent? 6/18
Rhode Island, US schools to tag school lunches w/ RFIDs. 6/18
"Widespread social and political unrest" from global food crisis? 6/18
Olympics stress China's water crisis. 6/18
US detainees, never charged w/ crimes, were tortured. 6/18
UN reports record number of refugees in 2007, 11.4 million. 6/17
Record high blogger arrests for criticizing govs. & rights abuses. 6/16
US Supreme Court rules in favor of habeas corpus for prisoners. 6/13
"Paddle-field" rice growing to triple Africa's yield? 6/12
Ethiopia human rights atrocities confirmed by satellite images. 6/12
2.7 million between 6 & 14 years old working in Egypt. 6/12
FAA security whistle blowers win awards and punishment. 6/11
US longevity behind 30 other countries. 6/11
Zimbabwe "is effectively being run by a military junta." 6/10
80,000 protest US beef import in South Korea. 6/10
Ethiopia hunger crisis expands. 6/9
Murder/brutality by Zimbabwe gov. makes fair election impossible. 6/9
Military spending rises 45% in last decade. 6/9
UK ID cards "danger of becoming a surveillance society?" 6/7
US to blame for global financial crisis? 6/7
US nuclear fuel recycling to spread weapons & pollution? 6/7
Zimbabwe cutoff of NGO aid programs endangers 2 million. 6/7
Burma/Myanmar monsoons increasing cyclone victims' suffering. 6/7
Darfur children kidnapped & sold into slavery for soldier duty. 6/7
Zimbabwe police halt opposition campaign. 6/6
Sudan accused of killing millions of Darfur civilians. 6/6
Zimbabwe halts all NGO aid work. 6/5
Lawsuit gets FDA to admit mercury is a toxin. 6/5
Secret plan for permanent US control of Iraq revealed. 6/5
Somalia violence/drought/food crisis continues to deteriorate. 6/4
Microsoft gives XP another two years. 6/4
Aid ships leave Burma/Myanmar after gov. refuses their help. 6/4
UnitedHealthcare clients of Calif. Univ. suffer ID theft IRS filings. 6/3
Burma/Myanmar military rule still stifling aid to cyclone victims. 6/2
South Korea public mad cow disease fears delay US beef import. 6/2
Japan reverses position & joins cluster bombs ban treaty. 5/31
111 countries, w/o US, sign treaty to ban cluster bombs. 5/30
"Extreme inequality leads to insecurity and political instability" 5/30
FCC considers promoting free wireless internet access. 5/29
"P4P" for efficient internet use. 5/27
Long range Wi-Fi at fraction of cost of WiMax available now? 5/27
Sudan is on the brink of a new civil war? 5/26
Fighting over Sudan oil region could displace 90,000? 5/24
Bandits cause displacement of up to 100,000 in central Africa. 5/23
3 weeks after worst cyclone ever, Burma/Myanmar allows aid. 5/23
Trade agreement aims to halt file sharing and Wikileaks? 5/23
GAO: widespread illegal influence on endangered species listing. 5/22
Lawsuit addresses official cover-up of mercury amalgam dangers. 5/22
Data misrepresented to falsely claim success in war on cancer. 5/22
Oil hits all time record high price again. 5/21
30% increase in "hate" incidents in one year on the web? 5/21
Zimbabwe inflation over 1 million percent. 5/21
13,000 flee South Africa xenophobia violence. 5/21
Google's health records online service risky? 5/20
15,000+ US scientists sign petition to end politicization of science. 5/20
Carlyle Group to purchase major private intelligence firm? 5/19
China web servers suffering mass SQL injection attack. 5/19
Thousands of children in prisons in the war on terror. 5/19
10,000s of children to starve due to lack of cyclone aid? 5/18
Power plant software can be easily hacked to shut them down. 5/18
Review of Firefox 3. 5/17
Cell phone & VoIP communications are insecure. 5/17
2/3 of computers sold over $1,000 are Macintoshes. 5/16
All out civil war may be returning to Sudan. 5/16
Zimbabwe post election violence "spinning out of control" 5/16
Shape shifting malware poses significant threat to the web. 5/15
Calif. supreme court reverses ban on same sex marriages. 5/15
US insurance companies up drug co-payments substantially. 5/15
800,000 Nigerians forcibly evicted to make way for dev. 5/15
Myanmar/Burma army stealing cyclone aid? 5/15
University of Alberta study supports decriminalizing marijuana. 5/14
Myanmar/Burma junta closes access to aid for cyclone victims. 5/14
Kenya armed police forcing thousands to leave refugee camp. 5/14
MySpace wins $230M judgement, largest spam fine ever? 5/14
Media & health agencies foment neglect of tropical diseases. 5/14
UK to put classified UFO files online. 5/14
Philadelphia metropolitan wi-fi to shut down. 5/13
Only a "tiny portion" of aid reaches cyclone victims. 5/13
Zimbabwe violence nears crisis level. 5/13
Multinational corps. can be sued for complicity in apartheid. 5/13
Bush admin. sets record; 2 years w/o an endangered species. 5/12
Gasoline prices hit 5th straight record high. 5/12
Semantic web search to challenge existing search engines? 5/12
Personal info. on 6M Chili citizens posted on the web. 5/12
US educational system stifles critical thinking. 5/11
Too many cooks spoils the government. 5/9
Zimbabwe violence: "impossible to properly document all cases." 5/9
"massive famine" coming to N. Korea soon? 5/9
40,000 accused of opp. voting suffer Zimbabwe troop violence. 5/8
Motion Picture Association files $15M suit against the Pirate Bay. 5/8
TorrentSpy, file sharing site, ordered to pay $100M copyright fines. 5/7
India successfully tests intermediate range ballistic missile. 5/7
UK further criminalizes marijuana in spite of Advisory Council. 5/7
Microsoft finally releases Service Pack 3 for XP & Vista SP1. 5/6
Troops backing Somalia gov. commit worst atrocities? 5/6
10 million children die each year due to lack of health care? 5/6
Guantanamo Bay prison, worst mankind has ever seen? 5/5
More than half 1583 EPA scientists not allowed to talk freely? 5/5
Thousands demonstrate in Horn of Africa over food prices. 5/5
Proximity optimizing software boosts P2P speeds, lessens IP strains. 5/2
Bush: lowest approval rating of any president in polling history. 5/1
Identity theft at risk on Facebook. 5/1
Digital radio listening grows substantially in UK. 5/1
Discover of LSD, Albert Hofmann, dies at age 102. 4/30
ADSL2+, up to 24Mbps, rolling out in UK. 4/30
Web inventor says it is "still in its infancy" 4/30
Dozens of US Heparin drug contaminant deaths was deliberate? 4/30
400 die last month in Baghdad clashes. 4/30
Ruling against RIAA may have significant file sharing impact. 4/30
Mozambique police kill and torture with impunity? 4/29
Business XP users continue to avoid upgrading to Vista. 4/29
Barrel of oil to $200 by 2009 & $7/gallon by 2012? 4/29
Windows XP Service Pack 3 available. 4/29
Guns for heroin help fuel Afghan war. 4/29
CDC study on impact of chemical pollution suppressed? 4/28
1st Psystar Mac clones delivered. 4/28
Racism persists in South Africa. 4/28
FDA allowed tests to continue after heart attacks increase known? 4/28
Zimbabwe police raid opposition & election observers. 4/25
Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron, releases. Runs in Windows partition. 4/24
China surpasses US as largest user of the internet. 4/24
Somalia conditions worsen, 1.5 million refugees & growing. 4/24
Strike disrupts 8,000 schools in England & Wales. 4/24
Darfur peacekeepers need water. 4/23
Malware web page infection rate triples. 4/23
Political suppression of science at the EPA. 4/23
Deregulation to blame for world food crisis? 4/23
Pilfered data supermarkets. 4/23
Facial expressions reveal lying. 4/23
Number of trojan malware infections rises 300%. 4/23
Comparing the latest browsers. 4/23
Shell blames sabotage for Nigeria drop of 169,000 barrels/day. 4/22
UN official: Darfur deaths estimate 50% too low, to 300,000. 4/22
On the Pentagon's US media propaganda campaign. 4/22
Ubuntu's "Hardy Heron": is this the year of desktop Linux? 4/21
Call for support to tackle "silent tsunami" of world food crisis. 4/21
Some details of military industrial complex control of media. 4/18
New encryption hopes to put internet criminals out of business. 4/18
Not a lack of food but actually politics creates starvation? 4/18
Investigator/witness against Pirate Bay employed by Warner Bros. 4/18
Bandits & thievery causes UN to cut food aid to Darfur by 50%. 4/17
Company offering Mac clones has yet to deliver one computer. 4/17
Australia gov. moves to total compromise of personal privacy. 4/17
300,000+ US troops suffer PTSD or depression. 4/17
North Korea faces widescale famine? 4/17
Google Earth 4.3 offers new features. 4/16
Humans have a biology based moral compass? 4/16
US TV news biased like never before. 4/16
Zimbabwe inflation reaches record high, almost 165,000%. 4/16
Drug giant Merck hid data linking Vioxx to heart attacks? 4/15
The push for internet sales taxes. 4/15
Oil price reaches a record high. 4/15
Santa Cruz threatened w/ lethal spray if suit delays pesticide. 4/15
US home foreclosures continue to rise. 4/15
US gov. to cut agency internet gateways from 4,000 to 50. 4/14
Zimbabwe's challenged regime deploys troops. 4/14
Fake consumer group for corporations stifled by disclosure. 4/14
Map of municipal Wi-Fi up and running in the US. 4/14
Skyrocketing food prices foment riots across the globe. 4/14
Wind generator demand outstrips supply by $12 billion worth. 4/14
Thousands of Darfur refugees w/o shelter after fire burns camp. 4/12
70,000+ private medical records exposed for 7 weeks on web. 4/11
Millions in fines for failure to notify of analog TVs' demise 2/'09. 4/11
Non-profit city wireless plans launch as for-profit ventures fail. 4/11
Price of rice to continue to rise as demand outpaces supply. 4/11
Chain letter reveals information distribution patterns. 4/10
Yahoo to test limited use of Google AdSense. 4/10
Global food crisis looms as prices spiral out of control. 4/10
Details of Cyber-Storm II exercise emerge. 4/10
Nigeria's criminal case against drug giant Pfizer delayed again. 4/10
84 yr. old Mugabe trying to hold Zimbabwe by "de facto coup"? 4/10
Inspections cancel 1,000 US flights "it isn't going to get any better" 4/10
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Tenet, Ashcroft approved torture. 4/9
Adobe releases media player competition. 4/9
Rising food prices cause growing riots in Haiti. 4/9
Retired AT&T technician: NSA given full internet monitoring access. 4/9
More malware in development than legitimate software. 4/9
Widely sold in the US, lead tainted sunglasses recalled. 4/9
Car companies lobby to defeat Calif. emissions regulations. 4/9
Food riots to increase? 4/9
Shopping while feeling bad can be expensive. 4/8
UN & Google Earth work together to aid refugees. 4/8
Huge ID theft increase brings bargain prices for compromised data. 4/8
Zimbabwe violence escalates over election outcome. 4/8
UN peace missions in Africa fail. 4/7
Exploding cash machine thefts more than triple in South Africa. 4/7
Olympic torch relay cut short by protests. 4/7
New largest botnet evades antivirus tools, 400,000 infected PCs. 4/7
Comcast responds to torrent throttling claims by throttling more? 4/7
Church of Scientology threat response, Wikileaks to post more. 4/7
Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai claims victory & warns of violence. 4/5
Blackwater contract renewal meets w/ displeasure amongst Iraqis. 4/5
US AID caused removal of "abortion" from database searches. 4/5
Darfur conditions may be worsening despite UN efforts. 4/4
Judges disagree on copyright infringement circumstances. 4/4
Zimbabwe gets new $50 million bill, enough for 3 loaves of bread. 4/4
Baghdad hospital film shows US' occupation's disastrous results. 4/4
One of UK's largest IPs refuses to "police" file sharers. 4/4
Digital music seller surpasses top hard copy seller. 4/3
Canada net neutrality heats up after DSL IP found throttling P2P. 4/3
US FAA officials practiced "malfeasance bordering on corruption" 4/3
Microsoft reveals OS release strategy. XP life extended. 4/3
"Matrix" style of virtual reality on the horizon? 4/3
90,000 US infants abused in 2006? 4/3
Monsanto's "fake" consumer group for bovine growth hormone. 4/1
Monsanto's immorality revealed by small farmer's court victory. 4/1
Parents get law passed: insurance companies pay for autism. 4/1
Jamaican authorities "willfully neglected" growing gang violence. 4/1
US CDC suppressed concerns of emergency trailer toxins. 4/1
Microsoft's Office Open XML attains ISO approval. 4/1

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