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Supreme Court says Americans have right to guns
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting, the justices' first major pronouncement on gun rights in U.S. history.
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The court's 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision went further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact.
The court had not conclusively interpreted the Second Amendment since its ratification in 1791. The amendment reads: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
The basic issue for the justices was whether the amendment protects an individual's right to own guns no matter what, or whether that right is somehow tied to service in a state militia.
Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said that an individual right to bear arms is supported by "the historical narrative" both before and after the Second Amendment was adopted.
The Constitution does not permit "the absolute prohibition of handguns held and used for self-defense in the home," Scalia said. The court also struck down Washington's requirement that firearms be equipped with trigger locks.
In a dissent he summarized from the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority "would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons."
He said such evidence "is nowhere to be found."
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate dissent in which he said, "In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas."
Joining Scalia were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas. The other dissenters were Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter.
The capital's gun law was among the nation's strictest.
Dick Anthony Heller, 66, an armed security guard, sued the District after it rejected his application to keep a handgun at his home for protection in the same Capitol Hill neighborhood as the court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in Heller's favor and struck down Washington's handgun ban, saying the Constitution guarantees Americans the right to own guns and that a total prohibition on handguns is not compatible with that right.
The issue caused a split within the Bush administration. Vice President Dick Cheney supported the appeals court ruling, but others in the administration feared it could lead to the undoing of other gun regulations, including a federal law restricting sales of machine guns. Other laws keep felons from buying guns and provide for an instant background check.
Scalia said nothing in Thursday's ruling should "cast doubt on long-standing prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons or the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings."
The law adopted by Washington's city council in 1976 bars residents from owning handguns unless they had one before the law took effect. Shotguns and rifles may be kept in homes, if they are registered, kept unloaded and either disassembled or equipped with trigger locks.
Opponents of the law have said it prevents residents from defending themselves. The Washington government says no one would be prosecuted for a gun law violation in cases of self-defense.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Clock is ticking on .me domain names - Network World
Clock is ticking on .me domain names - Network World
Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro.
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Saturday, April 05, 2008
Charlton Heston Dies at 84
Mr. Heston appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career, but he is remembered chiefly for his portrayals of Moses, Michelangelo and Ben-Hur, above.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
News Corp. profit seen rising on TV, Web growth
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is expected to turn in a higher second-quarter profit Monday on a 5.2% revenue increase due to improved results at its cable- and broadcast-television networks, newspapers and Internet operations.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Skype Worm Causes Video-Sharing Shutdown
Skype Worm Causes Video-Sharing Shutdown
Malware found in Skype’s video-sharing feature on its instant messaging client has been causing more problems than initially thought possible. Not only can the unauthorized software run on a Skype user’s PC, but it is in fact wormable, as it can be shared by clicking on a link from the IM client, or on a website.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
New Mutating Toolkit Trojan Infects Thousands - Security - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness
New Mutating Toolkit Trojan Infects Thousands - Security - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness
By Stefanie Hoffman, CMP Channel
5:20 PM EST Mon. Jan. 14, 2008
The latest wave of cyber attacks will likely be out of the box -- literally. Security researchers recently detected yet another crimeware toolkit that has the ability to turn established and legitimate Web sites into malware traps while constantly mutating to evade detection.
The new crimeware Trojan, which was first detected by San Jose-based security company Finjan, infected more than 10,000 Web sites in December alone and has likely affected hundreds of thousands of sites throughout 2007, experts say. Finjan researchers also assert that the number of affected sites will rise exponentially in the next 12 months, due to the fact that the toolkit enables attackers with very little experience to rapidly infect an enormous amount of machines in a short amount of time.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Webmasters Ponder PageRank Discrepancy
An update to the Google Directory has webmasters puzzling over an apparent discrepancy in PageRank scores.
Webmasters Ponder PageRank Discrepancy
For months, the speculation surrounded an apparent decrease in PageRank scores on Google's Toolbar. It seemed the decrease in rank was connected to penalties associated with buying and selling links that passed on PageRank, a practice Google not-so-quietly condemned last autumn.
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
World Seed Bank - International Business News - Portfolio.com
World Seed Bank - International Business News - Portfolio.com
A Category 5 hurricane makes landfall, winds clocking in at 208 miles per hour. Eleven thousand die; there are $5 billion in damages; the region’s economy is set back 20 years. More bad news for the survivors: Crops, and therefore the food supply, have been destroyed. This isn’t a doomsday scenario: It happened in 1998 when Hurricane Mitch shredded large parts of Honduras and Nicaragua. But in a break with the usual devastating cycle of famine following a natural disaster, relief organizations worked with seed banks to supply farmers, saving lives and letting the agencies focus on problems like rebuilding the housing stock.
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Hubble To Get Custom-Made Blankets
Goddard engineer Ben Reed studies a portion of a multi-layer blanket from Hubble, brought back to Earth after Servicing Mission 3A in 1999. Click image for enlargement. Credit: NASA |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 31, 2007
The Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4, scheduled for August 2008, aims to complete multiple upgrades and repairs, many of which are crucial for prolonging the telescope's operational life. One of the mission's many objectives is the refurbishment of its outer thermal blankets.
"Thermal blankets are to spacecraft as clothes are to people," says Mike Weiss, Hubble's technical deputy program manager. "Just as clothes cover our skin and help protect us from nature's elements...the cold winter wind and the scorching summer sun, thermal blankets protect Hubble from the harsh environment of space."
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Monday, December 24, 2007
The Hindu : Business : IT set to undergo a metamorphosis
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Britney Spears, Apple's Quicktime and New Spam Attacks - The Chart - IT Channel News And Views by CRN and VARBusiness
* A memory corruption bug which can be triggered by a maliciously crafted movie. It could potentially result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-2395)
* A heap overflow in the use of Sample Table Sample Descriptor atoms, which can be triggered through maliciously crafted movie files. It could potentially result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-3750).
* Vulnerabilities in Quicktime for Java which could allow untrusted applets to obtain elevated privileges (CVE-2007-3751).
* Two bugs in PICT file processing, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-4672).
* A bug in QTVR movie file parsing which could result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-4675).
* A bug in the parsing of color table atoms which could result in arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-4677).
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
Leftover Loot
Since 9/11, the TSA has collected tons of items at airport security checkpoints. What happens to all that stuff? Here's how to buy TSA contraband.
Since 9/11, the Transportation Security Administration has collected tons of items at security checkpoints; in 2006 alone, screeners took in more than 13 million items. What happens to all that stuff? The TSA turns it over to state surplus property agencies, which tend to sell it online or at retail stores. (Sometimes the contraband is sold in bulk.)
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
China Wireless Communications, Inc. Wins Additional Business With Tianjin Medicine Industry
China Wireless Communications, Inc. Wins Additional Business With Tianjin Medicine Industry
China Wireless Communications, Inc. (OTCBB: CWLC) today announced it has once again been selected by Tianjin Medical Industry & Biology Technic Company (TMI/BTC) to provide equipment and services for their facilities in Tianjin, China. Frank Li, President of China Wireless subsidiary, Tianjin Create Electronic Information Technology Co., LTD, confirmed the Company will provide network software, supporting network equipment and support services.
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Experts Warn Links To Child Porn Hidden In Legit Web Sites -- Security -- InformationWeek
Experts Warn Links To Child Porn Hidden In Legit Web Sites -- Security -- InformationWeek
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