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  1. Iraqi detainee: 'Even if I go to hell, they don't care'

    a book: "She never asks if we understand". "Some of us try to learn how to use computers ... , but we have no teacher. Most of us had no knowledge of computers before we came to Australia. In Iraq, ... Iran and Afghanistan, computers are too expensive." At 4pm each day, al Rahal spends time in the ...

  2. US young people's rights trampled

    <http://slashdot.org>. After the Colombine shootings, the establishment media claimed that "violent" computer ... games like Quake and Doom caused violence. An article posted on Slashdot defended computer game-playing. ... councillors and sent home if they admitted playing, or role-playing, computer games such as Dungeons and ...

  3. Tasmania G ber alles?

    Greens advanced to achieve sustainability was a computers for schools program to create a computer ... be operated by a private company for profit. The Greens, on the other hand, would fund computers in ...

  4. Life at the virtual university

    of their homes. According to GAL, computer-aided learning represents the "cutting edge" of ... "cyberspace". It highlights examples of US computer-based universities like ZD University, Digitalthink and the ... computer screens will not have the same opportunities to connect with other students. It will privatise the ...

  5. Ireland: the myth of the 'Celtic tiger'

    Authority attracting key manufacturing projects, such as that by computer process firm Intel. Like all major ... late 1997, Ireland's vulnerability was highlighted when the computer firm Seagate moved its major ... computer companies that reported losses or drastically reduced profits in 1998 were those driving the ...

  6. Censorship and repression in Burma

    journalists, owning a computer or a fax machine, translating Burmese literature into a foreign language, ... the sovereignty of the state can be imprisoned for up to five years without a trial. The Computer ... Science Development Law 1996 makes possessing computer equipment without a licence, or using information ...

  7. The media and the socialist left

    not many make full use of it. Unless you have a home computer, a modem and some spare cash, and know ... about Pegasus? Unless you are a computer literate, a media worker or a postgraduate student you would ... for progressive individuals to purchase their own home computers and exchange information with people ...

  8. Honduras: History always repeats itself

    irreversible tendency. But not in Honduras where, after a more than suspect failure of the computing system, ...

  9. Cuba, bloggers and the internet wars

    sped it up a little, between 2000 and 2008, but not by much. Home computer and internet usage rates are ... internet cafes or when using a computer at a workplace. My experience does not mean no restrictions exist ... computers in workplaces (79,636 in 2006) than in private houses (7402 in 2006) and there are youth centres ...

  10. The Honduran dictatorship is 'Made in the USA': fraudulent elections greeted by huge protests

    reporting, saying its computer had a malfunction. Thirty-six hours later, it said the computer was back and ...

  11. WikiLeaks publishes secret CIA documents revealing huge scale of spying

    of the material was redacted by WikiLeaks to avoid releasing the actual computer code used in the ...

  12. New security laws threaten civil liberties

    data was hacked from the computer system of a national security contractor last year does not offer any ...

  13. Centrelink staff, union demand action on debt notices

    ago and were still waiting to be processed due to computer system problems. 鈥溾楯ust get them done so we ...

  14. Save TAFE campaign readies for mass protests

    Education Beatrice Hope Naarm/Melbourne A student rally against the Victorian government鈥檚 TAFE cuts on May 23 projected a mass mobilisation next semester. The rally against the TAFE cuts was organised by RMIT TAFE students. Protesters from several TAFE i ...

  15. Labor under pressure over WestConnex in new Inner West Council

    computing power to distribute preferences so there is no reason why all actual preferences can't be ...

  16. Are smart cards going to outsmart us?

    credit entered on the card's computer chip by banks. Banks in Australia are putting in place ... today by computer or phone. This will rise to 56% by 1997. Counter transactions are expected to decline ... achieved through using computers to amass individual profiles of consumer spending, including times, place, ...

  17. Letter from the US: Veterans screwed in health care scandal

    said officials instructed staff not to make appointments on the VA computer system. Instead, when ... a veteran came seeking an appointment, 鈥渢hey enter information into the computer and do a screen capture ... hard copy printout. They then do not save what was put into the computer so there鈥檚 no record that you ...

  18. 'What they fear is light'-- Greenwald tells the Snowden story

    dramatic scoop because of his delays in installing a computer encryption program for communication with ... definitively breached. A high-school dropout and a US Army discard, Snowden鈥檚 native computer intelligence saw ... fibre-optic cables, telephone systems and personal computers, the documents showed the NSA eavesdropping on ...

  19. Mumia Abu-Jamal: Journalist from hell

    with these instruments, and then sent out to be typed by friends or editors. The computer age has not ... They actually think I have a computer here in the cell, or perhaps computer (and web) access. Not. Not ...

  20. Letters to the editor

    them unfortunately coming from the political left. It has been suggested for instance that the computer ... unemployed computer science graduate should have put paid to that idea. The computer is only another machine, ...

  21. China: E-waste and environmental colonialism

    brokers ship discarded computers and dump an environmental problem on China." The article explained, ... into China. A March 3 EPD press release revealed that eight containers containing waste computer ... air-conditioners and computers are discarded every year in China. E-goods suppliers in China aren't interested ...

  22. PALESTINE: Israeli assault leaves massive destruction

    education ministry employees indicates that the ministry's computers were stolen, files shredded, and ... Scientific Research in Ramallah, all equipment was destroyed by the IDF including computers and servers. ... Ramallah, most of these organisations had their offices broken into by Israeli soldiers with their computers ...

  23. Echelon: Lid lifted on global spy network

    A computer program, called Dictionary, allows those with access to the highly secure Echelon communications ... US to permit NSA access. The report proves that the US government's desire to modify computer ... computers and information technology once enjoyed by Comint organisations has all but disappeared". The ...

  24. GST: a tax on the poor

    businesses are going to need a computer. Every little business will have to lodge its tax returns via modem. ... The NTAA's estimate is that it will cost small businesses at least $12,000 to get the computers ... , modems, software and manuals, organise training and update computer systems to manage the GST. It ...

  25. The world's biggest bomb

    five kilometres. It sounds quite small and shallow until figures are fed into a computer, revealing ... figures into their computers, went a sick shade of grey and then tried again. None were prepared to be ... quoted by name, and the only comment I can repeat was from one physicist who, turning from his computer ...

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