Day: June 2, 2006

POHL-BREDS COULD SWEEP HERITAGE PLACE STAKES

For Immediate Release June 1, 2006, Amarillo, Texas – A breeder for the last 26 years, Michael Pohl of Canton, Texas, is now enjoying the fruits of the program he’s built. Already in 2006, Pohl-bred runners have dominated futurity fields and a pair of Corona Cartel colts could continue that success this weekend as Remington Park hosts the Heritage Place Futurity (G1) and Heritage Place Derby (G1). On Sunday’s card at Remington, Ivory James, bred by Pohl and owned by Sylvia Shaw Pitman and Bobby Cox, brings the fastest qualifying time into the finals of the $677,000

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Terrorism invoked in ISP snooping proposal – CNET News.com

Terrorism invoked in ISP snooping proposal | CNET News.com For more info click on above link In a radical departure from earlier statements, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that requiring Internet service providers to save records of their customers’ online activities is necessary in the fight against terrorism, CNET News.com has learned. Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller privately met with representatives of AOL, Comcast, Google, Microsoft and Verizon last week and said that Internet providers–and perhaps search engines–must retain data for two years to aid in anti-terrorism prosecutions, according to multiple sources familiar with the

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Hyperlink insecurity – CNET News.com

Hyperlink insecurity | Perspectives | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Imagine a world where no Web site or hyperlink can be trusted, and a simple click on a hyperlink could slam your computer with a malicious driveby download. Sound far-fetched? It’s not. Today, trusted Web sites can no longer be trusted. Those of us who collectively click on the billions of hyperlinks generated each day by search engines, blogs and e-mail are playing Russian roulette with our computers. Can the search results of Google, Yahoo, MSN and Technorati really be so hazardous to

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Getting nailed by e-mail – CNET News.com

Getting nailed by e-mail | Perspectives | CNET News.com For more info click on above link When are people going to learn? Many folks act as if e-mail is akin to a verbal conversation that comes and goes in the wind. Yet e-mail has a degree of permanence that hardly ever dies. Recent history is crammed with examples of e-mails that later became the bane of their authors’ existence. Once revealed, a poorly worded e-mail or an e-mail that should not have been sent in the first place can cause much embarrassment. That’s the best-case scenario. The

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USDA sued over broadband loan program – CNET News.com

USDA sued over broadband loan program | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A rural cable provider filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, insisting it reform a low-interest loan program created by Congress to bring high-speed Internet access to rural areas. Mediacom Communications, a cable operator serving mostly rural communities, and the Iowa Cable and Telecommunications Association (ICTA) filed the suit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. The suit accuses the USDA of offering a loan to a small service provider called Lisco, which

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Tesco to track milk deliveries by RFID – CNET News.com

Tesco to track milk deliveries by RFID | CNET News.com For more info click on above link European supermarket chain Tesco is to start using RFID tags to track the delivery of milk to distribution plants and stores. The move signals the next phase of Tesco’s RFID plans, which involve using permanent radio tags on “returnable transport items” such as the cages and trolleys used when goods are delivered from distribution centers to the supermarket stores. This new “unit of delivery” stage follows on from Tesco’s initial trials of radio frequency identification technology. These began in 2003

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