When I was working as a physician in the US, our Federal clinic’s policy was to order mammograms on all women starting at age 4o.
Why was this important? Because there is some indications that mammogram and early diagnosis increases the cure rate for breast cancer in young women.
This statement is not as obvious as you […]

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In science, there are all sorts of gossip that tweak the infallibility of scientists.
For example, the discovery of the “big bang” was postponed until they cleaned the antennae of Pigeon poop, and found it was the sky, not the poop, causing the hum of  the big bang.
And Penicillin may have been discovered because of carelessness […]

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I do not pretend to be an expert on the laws concerning phone intercepts, but I do not think it is legal to just go slap a tap on someones phone. Were this not so, there would not be a string of cases wending their way through the court system concerning the Bush Administrations use […]

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Ah, a British paper just pooh poohed the British victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saying that Prince Hal was not outnumbered 4 to 1, merely outnumbered 2 to 1.
Actually, the author misses the point, which is that the elite knights of France got slowed down by the mud and were massacred by ordinary British […]

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Wow! Another week and another Google Alert. This time, its about having cameras in the classrooms in the United Kingdom. Wonder if this trend will hit up the United States?
A group in the UK called Class watch sets up cameras in classrooms and uses this as a basis for professional development. So far, they have […]

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Well another week in the land of social networking. I tell you what, this is quite an adventure as I meet new people daily and read all sorts of news out there. I am always a hound for anything on Peer Abuse and the “B” word. So, it was no shock when I stumbled upon […]

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So President Obama is scrapping the Bush “Missile Defense program” that was planned to protect Europe from Iran.
Yes, I know. There is some question if the missile defense was any good against the actual threat, and all it seemed to do is irritate Russia. And it’s not like the program would merely be scrapped: there […]

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Yes, it’s recess time for the US Congress, and there are some red faces in Congress because the Wall Street Journal and the local newspaper in Seattle just noticed a cushy trip to the Galapagos, the Great Barrier Reef, and the South Pole as a fact finding trip to discover “global warming”.
One would think that […]

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Wow! Another day and another case of abuse on the records. Yes, this time it is done by a 40 year old woman in Missouri by the name of Elizabeth A. Thrasher. I guess the acts of Lori Drew were not enough to either wake people up to these things or completely put a stop […]

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When agreeing to sponsor Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics, Acer, a manufacturer of laptop and netbook computers,would have been aware of well publicized complaints against the City of Vancouver of human rights abuses targeting computer users and bloggers. Acer has therefore been asked to pull out as a sponsor.  The request was made to Acer’s public relations representives Stella Chou and […]

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ICANN has forgotten who it works for - us. Thomas Jefferson noted that the exercise of political power without the consent of the governed is illegitimate. ICANN’s attempt to impose a governance structure on noncommercial users against our will calls into question ICANN’s legitimacy to govern; it undermines confidence in ICANN’s commitment to democratic values; and it appears ICANN is unable to protect the broader public interest against commercial pressures….

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FreeMediaOnline.org, Free Media Online Blog, GovoritAmerika.us, July 09, 2009, San Francisco — While other U.S. government computer networks have long been back in operation after the cyber attack launched last weekend, the lead Federal agency in charge of communicating with the world on behalf of the United States suffered a catastrophic failure, […]

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According to the Wall Street Journal, a recent report on cyberbullying suggests that, unlike other Internet scares, this one is well-founded, but it questions some of the regulatory efforts that are gathering steam.  “The report, by the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a right-leaning Washington think tank that focuses on technology public policy, says that data […]

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One way to shut down a website is to send repeated requests for information to a site, which overwhelms the computer server.
Often this is due to some big blogger (e.g. Drudge) linking to a site.
But more commonly it is due to a virus that automatically sends out the request over and over again, and although […]

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As many of you know Blogger News Network is quite active on Blog Talk Radio, we have a top rated talk radio show on Sundays at 3pm Central. We have covered several subjects, in particular the Caylee Anthony and Haleigh Cummings cases. We have also run special programs about O.J Simpson and Aaliyah Bedwell. Our […]

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There is a lot of headlines being written on Iraq.
But there are a few facts “below the fold” that you might want to keep in mind if you are watching CNN correspondents who seem clueless to what is going on. (Here in the Philippines, we only have CNN and the BBC for our news).
Last night […]

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Here in the Philippines, there are always demonstrations, usually by the leftists, but if things get bad enough, the opposition always reminds the government about the “People Power” revolution that overthrew Marcos.
At that time, thugs associated with Marcos assassinated exiled politician Ninoy Acquino who had just returned to Manila to run against Marcos in the […]

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Well they will be in space soon! The business press is abuzz about Intel acquiring software company Wind River Systems. Wind River’s claim to fame is a Unix derivative embedded operating system VxWorks. Although it is widely used in all sorts of terrestrial applications its most famous use is by NASA. VxWorks is what runs […]

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Another week and another story on the debauchery that happens in cyber land. I tell you what, I hear, read and see a lot of stuff out there. We have watched the human race and society itself hit an all time low in the past few years. I keep trying to hold on and have […]

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Here in the Philippines, the headlines are usually full of big stories: a bomb in the south, a mudslide from the monsoons, or another corruption/bribery allegation.
But right now, the big story that everyone is following are the “Nip/Tuck” sex tape scandal. It seems that a prominent Manila plastic surgeon was seducing some of his patients, including […]

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Web search is a hot subject, right now Google sits atop the mountain, but can Google weather the storm? Clearly there are other companies that would like a piece of this lucrative business. The money of course is not in offering free search, but in the revenue generated from advertising.
Microsoft has long been king of […]

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My grandkids are into Facebook, and most people in the US know how the anti war opposition used Facebook and other internet social sites to help catapult Senator Obama to win the US elections last year.
But using Facebook groups for political purposes is not limited to the US.
Here in the Philippines, we have a big […]

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Oh joy! Lori Drew is back in the news. Hearing her name tends to make my blood boil. However, it gives me something to blog about and express my feelings about her. This time, there is a delay in her case as the defense filed to dismiss the case. Excuse me? Did they say dismiss? […]

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It is amazing how dependent you become on a set of tools. I was beside myself when suddenly the major tools of my trade disappeared for an hour this morning. All things Google ceased to be. My lifeline to the world is Gmail, both for personal and business emails. And when you are in the […]

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Well, lets put it this way, we have an account it is bloggernews, now call me old fashioned, but I don’t even know what Twitter is! But if Elen DeGeneres and CNN have fun with it, we decided that Blogger news should give it a try.
We are wide open to suggestions, one thought is that […]

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This is pretty much a David vs Goliath match up. In the 80’s it was pretty clear that AMD were little more than re-engineering the Intel 808x chip. That has changed a lot since those halcyon days. I would be hard pressed to find anyone that would call them copy cats. AMD are a stand […]

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Here in the Philippines, we live within sight of an extinct volcano, and less than 100 miles from the great Mt.Pinatubo.
Mt Pinatubo, whose eruption was so severe that it lowered the world average temperature a degree, showed the world how devastating a volcanic eruption can be, but it also showed the world how a well […]

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“Quality affordable healthcare for every American.” We once had it. Here’s a review of the journey that stole it.
Gee, Wally, medical care has come so far since the early ’60’s. It was just too gosh-darn simple then. People got sick, went to the doctor, got a checkup. The doc harrumphed, made a diagnosis, wrote a […]

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If you visit Washington, locals will point out when the President leaves in a convoy of helicopters, most of which are there to protect him from bad guys. It’s quite an inspiring sight. His helicopter is called Marine One.
But the helicopters are getting on in age, so there has been some discussion about an overpriced […]

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There has been much made about China’s ‘Great Internet Wall’, a series of (US Built) routers that filter out access to any site that the Chinese government do not deem suitable. I am proud to tell you that Blogger News is included on that list!
What about censorship here in the US? Much has been made […]

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