For the first time in its 60-year history, the University of California’s $2.2 billion contract with the government to run Los Alamos National Laboratory will be put up for competitive bid. Tomorrow’s Wired News will have my take on this development. But before then, you can hear me blab about Los Alamos on Los Angeles’ […]
April 2003
The 9/11 hijackers were allowed to get into the country, and get on planes, because various federal agencies didn’t share their watch lists — their registers of terrorist suspects. But 20 months after the 9/11 attacks, ABC News reports, “the U.S. government still lacks a consolidated terrorism watch list that is easily accessible to all […]
U.S. troops have once again fired on protesters in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the Associated Press reports. In less than 48 hours, at least 15 Iraqi civilians have been killed. Is this the only way to do crowd control? A recent Tech Central Station article of mine looks at high-tech police aids that might […]
It has nothing to do with military technology. But my latest Wired News article does deal with two of the day’s most weighty issues: online music and porn. By most accounts, Apple’s new iTunes music download service is pretty cool — the first legitimate alternative to the song swapping on Kazaa, Morpheus and other file-trading […]
You’d think that the Environmental Protection Agency’s investigators would concentrate on crimes against Mother Nature. But you’d be wrong. Since 9/11, the 220 sleuths in the Agency’s criminal division have focused on counter-terror efforts, the New York Times reports, and shied away from environmental inquiries. “They have dropped the ‘E’ in the E.P.A. and have […]
