Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with technology www.salem-news.com 2010 Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley today sent a letter to Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski concerning recent reports of fraudulent use of caller ID technology. Press reports have indicated a dramatic increase of caller ID “spoofing”, or callers that misrepresent themselves on caller IDs. http://salem-news.com/articles/january272012/merkeley-phones.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january272012/merkeley-phones.php Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:41:00 PST On Dec. 22, 2011 I received this link from the Planck Foundation, to an article titled: The Sun: A Magnetic Plasma Diffuser That Controls Earth’s Climate. It states: How are we to understand the universe when, as Nobel Laureate William A. Fowler noted in 1988, ‘we do not even understand how our own star really works...’ http://salem-news.com/articles/january162012/magnetic-sun-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january162012/magnetic-sun-ec.php Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:49:00 PST According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately 36 million Americans have a hearing loss; but not all of them are aware or may be too embarrassed to accept it and get tested. Bob Tysoe, Physician Marketing Manager from Sonus, who educates doctors all over Oregon about hearing loss, has seen firsthand how neglected the connection between diabetes and hearing loss is. http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/diabetes-hearing.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january042012/diabetes-hearing.php Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:53:00 PST In a report from London dated Dec. 19, 2011 titled, “Comet Lovejoy Just Misses the Sun”, the scientists reported: “Newly discovered comet, Lovejoy, defied all odds when it survived a hellish journey through the Sun’s corona, where temperatures soar to staggering 1.1 million C. http://salem-news.com/articles/december302011/more-comets-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december302011/more-comets-ec.php Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:18:00 PST My concept is that the heat and energy of the Sun is the result of the tremendous external magnetic field of the Sun. It is absolutely impossible for an internal 20 million degree internal heat source of any kind to radiate a 3 million degree temperature to the corona and leave a relatively cool 10,000 degree surface of the Sun between these two awesome temperature extremes. http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/radiated_heat-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december182011/radiated_heat-ec.php Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:58:00 PST I received a snail mail letter from Bob Dale, a local meteorologist with KCST-TV dated Jan. 4, 1998. He wrote: "I was grinning from ear to ear when I read the article about finally solving the riddle of the Sun being hotter on the outside! Ha! You told me about that years ago." http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/space-puzzles-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/space-puzzles-ec.php Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:24:00 PST The informed source said on Sunday that the Iranian Army's electronic warfare unit successfully targeted the US-built RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft after it crossed into Iranian airspace over the border with neighboring Afghanistan. He added that the US reconnaissance drone has been seized with minimum damage. http://salem-news.com/articles/december042011/spy-drone.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december042011/spy-drone.php Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:43:00 PST Security arrangements at the Dimona nuclear reactor have been "severely deficient" for years, making Israel's super-secret desert facility vulnerable to a breach, the Israel Hayom daily reported Tuesday. Several inspections of the site, conducted by the Israeli army' s Home Front Command, determined that its ground security units lack the means to provide adequate protection from potential attacks, the report said. http://salem-news.com/articles/december032011/israel-nukes.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december032011/israel-nukes.php Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:26:00 PST NASA reported the detection of both the creation of particles and the repelling characteristic in a 17 Nov. 2011 advisory with an article titled “Kicking Up Dust- Saturn and the Solar Wind Sent Tiny Particles Flying.” The article states: “Dust particles act in an unusual way around Saturn. Instead of being attracted to the giant planet as might be expected, dust particles are ejected away from Saturn in streams that move at speeds of more than 62 miles per second...” http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/saturn-dust-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november282011/saturn-dust-ec.php Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:59:00 PST This observer, with his sandaled feet comfortably dug into the sand of a chilly Mediterranean beach and huddled next to a camp fire with a congenial and bright group of still heavily armed “NATO rebels,” is learning that the past eight months’ experiences for many Libyans who fought with or for NATO were rather different from what the western mainstream media portrayed. And what many of us who spent last summer in the Western Libya Gadhafi stronghold were inclined to believe about them. http://salem-news.com/articles/november192011/sirte-bay-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november192011/sirte-bay-fl.php Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:27:00 PST A 9 Nov. 2011 KPBS program copyrighted in 2002 titled “The Elegant Universe; Einstein’s Dream”, it started with: “Actually, no one can figure out how gravity operates when you get down to the size of atoms and subatomic particles. That is, no one can figure out how to put general relativity and quantum mechanics together into one package. http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/einstein-dream-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november142011/einstein-dream-ec.php Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:32:00 PST Early Monday at approximately 3:00 a.m,, police raided and destroyed the 'Occupy' encampment in Eureka, "like thieves in the night," as activist Jack Nounnan said, "jailing 14 people on charges of resisting arrest." Nounnan says some occupiers were pulled out of their sleeping bags and immediately handcuffed, and that allegations of resisting arrest are patently false. One, according to Nounnan, was accosted by police, others simply were complying with orders yet still arrested. http://salem-news.com/articles/november102011/eureka-arrests-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november102011/eureka-arrests-tk.php Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:21:00 PST Apparently the greatest industrialist in American history was not always the nicest guy. He yelled at people. He insisted they do it his way. He fired them if they did not. Sometimes he fired them if they did. Steve Jobs set out to change the world though one simple goal: Perfection. He had to settle for excellence. He inspired a lot of people along the way. http://salem-news.com/articles/november092011/jobs-ows-bg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november092011/jobs-ows-bg.php Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:09:00 PST Six Estonian nationals have been arrested and charged with running a sophisticated Internet fraud ring that infected millions of computers worldwide with a virus and enabled the thieves to manipulate the multi-billion-dollar Internet advertising industry. Users of infected machines were unaware that their computers had been compromised—or that the malicious software rendered their machines vulnerable to a host of other viruses. http://salem-news.com/articles/november092011/ghost-click.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november092011/ghost-click.php Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:33:00 PST On Nov. 2, 2011 KPBS broadcast a program titled “The Fabric of the Cosmos; what is space?” http://salem-news.com/articles/november082011/nova-program-ec.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november082011/nova-program-ec.php Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:00:00 PST Arthur Balfour's infamous "Declaration" was written 94 years ago this week. Palestinians, of course, don’t need reminding. And to mark the anniversary Israel ordered its warships to carry out yet another act of piracy on peaceful, innocent shipping carrying humanitarian relief to the imprisoned people of Gaza. http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/balfour-legacy-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/balfour-legacy-sl.php Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:56:00 PDT Gilad Atzmon the famous ex Israeli musician, philosopher writer whose new book “The Wandering Who?” has caused fury amongst pro Israel groups is no stranger to controversy. A few months ago he caused a stir when Sheikh Raed Salah a respected figure amongst Arab Israelis visited the UK and was arrested for no other reason except that the Israel lobby in Britain demanded it, Atzmon wrote: “Welcome to the United Jewish Kingdom”. http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/jewish-uk-ss.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/jewish-uk-ss.php Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:39:00 PDT Israeli hasbara insists that an attack on Iran is compatible with both Western interests and NATO strategy. For example, this week Israel released information about an IAF exercise in NATO’s bases in Italy. http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/guardian-israel-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/guardian-israel-ga.php Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:16:00 PDT Sahel” in Arabic means “coast” or “shoreline.” Unless one was present 5000 years ago when, according to anthropologists, our planets first cultivation of crops began in this then plush, but now semiarid region where temperatures reach 125 degrees F, and only camels and an assortment of creatures can sniff out water sources, it seems an odd geographical name place for this up 450 miles wide swatch of baked sand that runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/sahel-niger-fl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november052011/sahel-niger-fl.php Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:37:00 PDT Epiphany: noun: “a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.” Propaganda: noun: “information, ideas, or rumours deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.” http://salem-news.com/articles/november042011/op-ed-dj.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november042011/op-ed-dj.php Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:13:00 PDT From the ghosts of Tom Clancey’s 2001 release of Ghost Recon, with its single player campaign plot involving the exact, prophetic, Georgian invasion of South Ossetia with Nato backing that later occurred in 2008, comes the latest, greatest, First Person Shooter Video Game from EA: Battlefield 3. Battlefield 3 features the latest gaming engine, Frostbite 2. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/battlefield-3-jm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/battlefield-3-jm.php Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:49:00 PDT Oregon Health & Science University’s unique method of transforming a person's own skin cells into stem cells has officially been patented. The United States Patent and Trademark Office, an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, issued the patent earlier this year. Securing a patent is a key step in commercializing discoveries, an important objective for OHSU. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/stem-cell.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/stem-cell.php Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:07:00 PDT Disconnect is a documentary that exposes the truth behind the negative health effects of cell phones. Globally, 5 billion people own mobile devices but few know the potential harm they are causing. Through extensive research and interviews with the world’s leading doctors, scientists, politicians, activists, and victims; Disconnect traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted public health. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/cell-phone-movie-.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/cell-phone-movie-.php Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:29:00 PDT A rich person can buy their way out of most problems in America, after all this is a country where presidents launch unilateral wars that claim a million plus lives over bad information. But that aside, when it comes to push and shove, all of the money in the world won't necessarily get you out from under the jack boot of police brutality. Of course the people who believe in this practice, generally redneck types in pick up trucks; they are almost never the victims of this practice. http://salem-news.com/articles/october282011/police-brutality-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october282011/police-brutality-tk.php Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:47:00 PDT To better understand my view, either put Pink Floyd’s “MONEY” (DARK SIDE OF THE MOON 1973) on while reading this or go to the link below and listen while reading it. Who knows, might help but then again maybe you’ll just get morose and ask yourself: “WTF, why am I browsing for more bad news on the web?” Whatever. Color me comfortably numb. http://salem-news.com/articles/october092011/fixing-stupid-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october092011/fixing-stupid-rb.php Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:19:00 PDT Steve Jobs’ family today made the a statement regarding his death Wednesday. The extremely well known computer pioneer died peacefully surrounded by his family. "In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories..." http://salem-news.com/articles/october062011/steve-jobs-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october062011/steve-jobs-tk.php Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:27:00 PDT It has been a long afternoon for our crew, with Salem-News.com experiencing online technical difficulties at the exact point in time that Palestine faces statehood in the United Nations. Our Web Designer Matt Lintz, says a series of server tests were conducted over a four-hour period Saturday as the site remained offline and while the problem can't be pinpointed, adjustments were made and Salem-News is now expected to remain stable. http://salem-news.com/articles/september242011/salem-news-back-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september242011/salem-news-back-tk.php Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:38:00 PDT Motorists beginning their day Tuesday in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, were greeted by a horrific site; two young people described as Internet bloggers who expressed their disapproval of cartel activities... were found hanging from a bridge, tortured and murdered, the woman left partly nude. The location is in the heart of the Mexican community - Voluntad and Trabajo 3. Nuevo Laredo is a city of 400,000 just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. http://salem-news.com/articles/september152011/mexico-hangings.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september152011/mexico-hangings.php Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:26:00 PDT Vets on Set is a non-profit organization whose mission statement is to attain entertainment industry jobs for US military veterans. Their main purpose is to achieve this goal of job placement while highlighting little known benefits to employers. http://salem-news.com/articles/september152011/vet-jobs-mh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september152011/vet-jobs-mh.php Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:43:00 PDT ODOT executives apologized to 62 current and former employees and individuals who worked with ODOT's environmental programs, after learning of a data security breach that involved individuals' personal information, including names and social security numbers. http://salem-news.com/articles/september092011/odot-information.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september092011/odot-information.php Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:57:00 PDT