The troubled American private security company Blackwater faced fresh controversy today when two former employees accused it of defrauding the US government for years, including billing for a Filipina prostitute on its payroll in Afghanistan . According to Melan Davis, a former employee, Blackwater listed the woman for payment under the “morale welfare recreation” category
The troubled American private security company Blackwater faced fresh controversy today when two former employees accused it of defrauding the US government for years, including billing for a Filipina prostitute on its payroll in Afghanistan . According to Melan Davis, a former employee, Blackwater listed the woman for payment under the “morale welfare recreation” category
Microsoft will be releasing “Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) Update for Windows 7″ which, as its name implies, is an update for WAT , the set of built-in activation and validation components, in Windows 7. The update will detect “more than 70 known and potentially dangerous activation exploits” that attempt to bypass or compromise WAT and will determine whether the copy of Windows 7 that is installed on a PC is genuine. It is also supposed to improve the integrity of key licensing components on the OS and will run periodic validations every 90 days
Reactions to Google’s big news have been blanketing our inbox faster than a DC snowfall. To recap: Google will build and run a 1Gbps , fiber-to-the-home network serving several US communities and reaching up to 500,000 people. The network will be “open access,” meaning any ISP can use the network to reach end users, hopefully creating vibrant competition
Reporting from Silver Spring, Md. – A fierce winter storm walloped Washington and the mid-Atlantic region for the second time in less than a week Wednesday, closing the federal government, airports and schools while inspiring a mix of awe and dread to millions of snowbound families. The daylong blizzard raged from Virginia to New York as heavy snow and gale-force winds toppled trees, brought down power lines and created white-out conditions that turned many roads treacherous to impassable
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