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Facebook and Privacy

Experts in the field of Internet privacy generally agree that Internet privacy does not really exist.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - I am not here to bash Facebook. (Did I hear Mark Zuckerberg’s sigh of relief?) However, I do want to sound a note of caution to present and future Facebook users.

I have a Facebook account. I only include publicly available information such as, for example, my Salem-News articles. Even if I had dirty laundry, I wouldn't air it on Facebook, nor would I disclose intimate details of my life.

3-116 Embarks on First Convoy Mission

Soldiers are using the military's new mine resistant vehicles.

(JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq) - Fighter 41’s first convoy mission began in the early-morning under a deep black Iraqi sky.

As the countryside around Joint Base Balad, Iraq, slept, the Guardsmen with eastern Oregon’s Company F, 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), labored under the large, hard white klieg lights stationed at intervals around their compound.

A Commonsense Solar Defense

We know what to do. What’s required is the leadership to do it.

(TEMPE, Az.) - Three days before Christmas, the U.S. Congress authorized $725 billion in defense spending for 2011. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the most since 1945, the last year of World War II.

With numbers that large, making comparisons is difficult. Yet consider this. The United Nations reports that 1.5 billion people still live without electricity. For less than $100, a solar panel can power a cell phone charger and four high-efficiency LED lights.

New Program Allows Press Releases to Avoid the Round File with Salem-News.com

Salem-News.com Global Online News Group boasts a half a million viewers and two million page views each month

(SALEM, Ore.) - What’s the most anti-climactic part of writing a successful press release? How about never seeing it in print?

Piracy: The Real Economic End Game?

Threats of violence are increasingly related to conflicts over control of the broader underground economy.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - All across Mexico, roving vendors, street stands, storefronts and even trendy bars peddle pirated DVDs, masquerade tequila, copy-cat fashion brands and other untaxed goods.

With hefty price hikes in store for cigarettes next month, tobacco is emerging as the latest pirated, hot commodity.

The Greatest Star Discovery

Most of the exoplanets that have been discovered are Jupiter-like gas giants.

(LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.) - Perhaps the greatest scientific discovery in the last 15 years has been the identification of planets revolving around stars outside our solar system. Over 500 extrasolar planets or exoplanets have been discovered orbiting nearby stars.

Virtually everywhere astronomers look carefully at nearby stars, planets are observed.

Oregon Senator Moves to Save the Internet!

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) may go down in history as the man who saved the Internet.

(HARRISVILLE, N.H.) - According to an article published by “The Raw Story” and written by Stephen C. Webster, “A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor the Internet will not pass this year thanks to the Oregon Democrat, who announced his opposition during a recent committee hearing”.

The bill is known as “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act” or COICA.

A Good Science Fiction Book Expands the Mind: Tobias Buckell

(TEHRAN) - Born in Grenada in the Caribbean, Tobias Buckell is a New York Times Best-Seller science fiction and speculative fiction author. Having lived in Ohio since 1995, Buckell started submitting his writings to magazines and newspapers since he was in high school.

He sold his first short story in an early age and continued selling stories to the American magazines since then.

What is `Diminished Reality` Technology?

Is reality catching up with Michael Crichton's fertile imagination?

(CHICAGO) - The late author, Michael Crichton, often wrote about how science and technology would affect culture and humans in his novels.

In his story "Rising Sun" the late novelist foresaw the technology of software manipulation of digital video records.

CA-Prop-23: Valero Gives Add`l $1 Million to `Yes on 23`

Valero's contributions now total $5,075,315.

(BERKELEY, Calif.) - CA Prop 23 Update: Proposition 23 would suspend AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which is set to be implemented in California on January 1, 2012.

Citing figures from the California secretary of state, Maplight.org reports Texas-based Valero gave an additional $1 million contribution to 'Yes on 23' last night.