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Why wasn't this a front-page headline in today's LA Times?
N. KOREA AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO TAKE INITIAL STEPS TO DISMANTLE NUKE PROGRAM
It isn't even mentioned on the front page. There's an article about North Korea, but it doesn't mention the nuke program:
A rescuer of Korea's forgotten
An activist's network helps free countrymen who had been abducted and held by the North, such as a fisherman who escaped after 32 years.
Sure, that's way more important than dismantling the nuke program of madman Kim Jong Il.
Let's see what else was more important, per today's LA Times (some articles have different headines on the web than in print):
That's right, all those stories were way more important than the story about a potential deal to dismantle North Korea's nuke program.
Similar stories were reported yesterday by news outlets including Forbes and the Houston Chronicle, so it appears the LA Times had the opportunity to put the story on the front page should it have wished to do so. The story is also buried on the home page of the LA Times' web site, in small print close to the bottom of the page, under "AP News."
This is a rather dramatic example of the LA Times refusing to give prominence to any story that makes GWB look good.
Remember this next time you see a story about polls showing low approval numbers for GWB. Those low approval numbers in part measure the extent to which MSM buries the news about GWB's achievements.
The security systems for the One Laptop per Child computer are quite brilliant:
Beyond cyberthreats, the XO laptop will have an anti-theft system designed to render stolen laptops useless. Each XO is assigned a "lease," secured by cryptography, that allows it to operate for a limited period of time. The laptop connects to the internet daily and checks in with a country-specific server to see if it's been reported stolen. If not, the lease is extended another few weeks.
If the lease expires, the XO's internet connectivity is turned off, and shortly thereafter the whole computer becomes a brick. In the case of an area without internet connectivity, a local school can extend the lease from its own server by Wi-Fi or with a USB dongle.
Were the Nazis really looking for a supernatural object, as in Raiders of the Lost Ark? A new book says they were.
