Monday Tech News

DoJ rejects Google's privacy concerns. The government wants search engine data to have another censorship law passed. Think about the children! I'm a firm believer that it is up to the PARENTS, not the government, to teach and show what is right and wrong to children. Don't limit my media because of children, thanks.

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The department believes the information will help revive an online child protection law that has been blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court. By showing the wide variety of Web sites that people find through search engines, the government hopes to prove Internet filters are not strong enough to prevent children from viewing pornography and other inappropriate material online.

How could a law that has been blocked be open for discussion again? America is really turning into a stupid place. I think we need to get back to our roots and stop running our citizens lives. This is a democracy after all, why can't I vote on the crap the government is doing?

20 years of NES.

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There was no denying that the NES was a phenomenon. By the 1990's one in every three American homes had an NES and video games had become a billion-dollar industry. Nintendo had taken over Saturday morning cartoons, cereal boxes, and the surface of commercial merchandise the world over. Through several different iterations, from the Japanese-exclusive Famicom Disk System to the 90's released top-loading NES, the NES dominated video game sales for nearly a decade.

MRO ready for orbital insertion.

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The spacecraft has travelled 459 million kilometres (285 million miles) – 95% of the way to Mars – since its launch from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, US, in August 2005. It has already fired its thrusters twice to correct its course towards Mars. Those firings were so successful that mission managers cancelled two further trajectory tweaks that had been scheduled.