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High oil prices giving Iraq up to $79 billion in surplus cash

By John C Dvorak | August 5, 2008

High oil prices giving Iraq up to $79 billion in surplus cash - International Herald Tribune The soaring price of oil will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by the end of this year, a U.S. oversight agency has concluded in an analysis released Tuesday. The unspent windfall, [...]

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Microsoft-Free Desktop Planned

By John C Dvorak | August 5, 2008

40 Million credit cards stolen. Crooks busted, finally. Worldwide-scheme. IBM pushing the “Microsoft-free” desktop. Nobody is biting. Delta to offer Wi-Fi across entire US fleet. Sony grabs Rocketboom for exclusive distribution rights. PayPal co-founders investing in Space-X venture. AT&T now into Cloud Computing. Lenovo growing too slowly. [...]

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Another Mission Accomplished - KFC in Fallujah!      Or Not.

By McCullough | August 5, 2008

Another Mission Accomplished - KFC in Iraq

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Hell on Earth: two acre patch of California Land Mysteriously heats up to 800° Farenheit

By McCullough | August 5, 2008

Hell on Earth: 2 acre patch of California Land heats up to 800 degrees Farenheit

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Rusty in the Sink

By hhopper | August 5, 2008

Rusty in the Sink

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Rapist, murderer says, “I’m too fat to execute!”

By Eideard | August 5, 2008

This is a question of evading a penalty, not evaluating the penalty.

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Flat Vans in Britain

By John C Dvorak | August 5, 2008

Översatt version av http://www.expressen.se/motor/1.1254101/byggde-varldens-plattaste-van What’s there to say? The guy flattened a VW van and it actually looks cool. Well, or idiotic. translated from a Swedish Motor Magazine: Friendster took away nearly one and a half metres of the car’s roof, put in a new control system and lowered the seats. — We have applied to the [...]

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Dell says it owns ‘cloud computing’

By Eideard | August 5, 2008

It never seems to end or even diminish...

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Do You Trust Google To Protect Your Privacy?

By Eideard | August 5, 2008

Street View is arguably fairly benign, but the bigger issue of privacy at Google is worth discussing.

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I.C.E., federal officials, announce “Deport Yourself” program

By Eideard | August 5, 2008

Rather than risk getting caught, turn yourselves in. That’s the latest government strategy in its ongoing effort to dramatically reduce the nation’s ballooning population of illegal immigrants… Julie Myers, director of ICE, told a Spanish-language network that “Operation Scheduled Departure” will allow illegal immigrants without criminal records a chance to literally “self-deport” by turning themselves in [...]

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