Anonymous Comrade writes: There has been a story picked up by the major media outlets about how the
Department of Energy has been pulling "sensitive" nuclear information from
its web site.

in case you want to see that information, simply go to:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.energy.gov

WHAT?! that's right... a rather complete set of www archives from all over
the world - including last year's version of the DOE website containing all
of the "sensitive" nuclear information.

so all the creative terrorist needs to do is compare the current pages with the
archived version and he will be conveniently served up with a list of all
the data that our govn't thinks is "sensitive"

damn! i love the internet!

so what next!?? demand that the web.archive.org remove all DOE web page archives? and if so, let the legal debate begin!

Daaaih Loong writes: "On November 6 the Wall Street Journal (subscription only) posted an article by Joseph Hallinan on the bail-out of failing private prisons by the Federal Government.

Federal Government Saves Private Prisons As State Convict Population Levels Off

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. -- Like pioneers from an earlier time,
Corrections
Corp. of America nearly met its demise here in the Mojave Desert.

The private-prison operator spent $106 million in 1998 to build a giant
prison in the sand, confident it would land a contract to house
California
prisoners. What CCA officials didn't anticipate, however, was a sudden
stall
in the growth of California's prison population and fierce opposition
from
unionized state prison guards worried about their jobs. The prison
remained
empty and helped push CCA, then struggling with management problems and
mounting debt, to the brink of financial disaster.

The company's desperation should have presented an opportunity to Uncle
Sam.
While state prison populations appeared to be leveling off, the head
counts
in federal prisons were growing more rapidly than ever, fueled by
tougher
drug and immigration laws. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons needed more beds,
and
the empty prison here offered immediately available capacity.
Presumably,
the bureau could negotiate a fire-sale price.

Autonomedia writes: "Lucio Colletti, who has died of a heart attack aged 76, was a much-loved philosophy professor at Italian universities who dedicated most of his life to studying and teaching Karl Marx--and ended his days as a parliamentary deputy for the party of premier Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's richest capitalist.

The London Guardian has posted an obituary.

Autonomedia writes: "Careful readers of our site may be interested to see this rather under-reported impressive new initiative on the part of a State long neglectful of "applied" arts. It's always nice to see that the Dubya's able to quote soul-mates like Wyndham Lewis, and to know he has a "first-hand grasp" of problems like cyber-addiction to pornographic violence. (If only his interest in pornographic violence was cyber-exclusive!)

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