eBay"s bomb suspicions by Claudia Sonea

On Wednesday, around 9 a.m., eBay's headquarters were evacuated due to a suspicious-looking package, found in the company's mailroom. Everything turned out to be a false alarm and the evacuated employees were allowed to return to their daily tasks. EBay's spokesman Hani Durzy did not gave any details of the incident, nor about what triggered the suspicion of bomb. This event happens about a year distance after at another eBay office in North San Jose someone set off a pipe bomb. Although no one was injured by the blast, it did create a sort of concerns that eventually were put off due to the lack of leads that ended the investigation. More than 200 employees were evacuated from one of the nine buildings of the online auction company's headquarters. All the fuss was stirred by a package found by workers in the mailroom. There is no information on what lead to the conclusion that the package contains a bomb. According to San Jose police officer Jermaine Thomas the dispatchers were informed about the suspicious package 24 minutes after the workers found it. In consequence the intersection of Bascom and Hamilton streets on the border between San Jose and Campbell was also blocked during the inspection of the threatening object. Durzy said that the entire matter is not unusual and despite the fact that it happened before, because eBay is a company and an entity in Silicon Valley threats like this are supposed to take place. All the other companies have to deal with the same thing. So, buy now, while you still can. Who knows what maniac will blow up the famous online auction company and there goes the chance for an average worker to acquire cheap things. Enjoy!

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Say goodbye to privacy by Claudia Sonea

According to Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, Americans have to change their definition on privacy and also say goodbye to it. He thinks that the government and special businesses should take care of the people's private communications and financial information, all this in the context of Congress debating new rules for government eavesdropping and reanalyzing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. There was in 1978 a law that prohibited any surveillance conducted on U.S. soil without court permission in order to protect people's privacy. The White House is against it and arguments her position with the fact that the amount of foreign communications that passes through U.S.-based channels is growing. Therefore, last summer they changed it and now the government can eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation is outside the US. Due to the new changes something must be done for the telecommunication companies to be protected against civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people's private e-mails and phone calls without a FISA court order between 2001 and 2007. However, things are still on the list of debate, some lawmakers and even members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are not so open to the idea of immunity because it is necessary to see how far the government broke people's intimacy without court permission. A decision is expected to be taken this week and there are 40 wiretapping suits pending. The bill would replace the FISA update enacted in August that privacy groups and civil libertarians say gives access to the government to read Americans' e-mails and listen to their phone calls without court permission. Kerr said that the ones handling the eavesdropping will get up to five years in prison and $100,000 in fines if convicted of misusing private information. He added that it is not so outrageous for the government to be allowed to oversight people personal data due to the fact that they already surrendered anonymity to social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, and to Internet commerce. On the other side, Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an advocacy group that defends online free speech, privacy and intellectual property rights, argues against Kerr and says that he doesn't make distinction between sacrificing protection from an intrusive government and voluntarily disclosing information in exchange for a service. Is there no more limit to the government's power? How can they vouch for any of their employees and the safety of people's personal names? Don't go away, this is promising!

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Dangerous toxic toy by Olga Hromkova

Popular toy which is well know as Bindeez in Australia and Aqua Dots in the United States became a very dangerous and toxic toy since the fact that the coat of the toy should have been made of "1,5-pentanediol, a nontoxic compound found in glue but instead contained 1,4-butanediol, a potentially harmful chemical widely used in cleaners and plastics". This toy is produced in China by Australia-based Moose Enterprises. Since this information about harmful toy came out, thousands of stores in Australia, United States and Canada uncased their shelves. There has been a fourth child hospitalized in Australia and two children in North America became ill after eating this toy. Serious danger has been spread in toy market. How can this be possible? The Associated Press the "ingredients were switched at the point of manufacture," Well, but this is not everything. Some tests found out that the chemicals found in toy is a substance which could be compared to ecstasy or GHB.The company is still investigating how could this happened, but still we have already few seriously ill children. Well, if this information and another testing will be positive, imagine the horror in parents eyes who has bought this Bindeez or Aqua Dots for their children. Moose Enterprises which is distributing these toys to 40 different countries already tried to inform clients and customers by putting on an advertisement which in informing about possible danger which could be caused by eating parts of the toy.

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Is speeding worth it? by Natalia Holvova

Were you ever in a hurry? I am sure if I ask this kind of question to common person they will look at me like I am from planet Mars. Of course everyone was in a hurry! We live in a fast world where technologies took a lead and so we need to be faster and more powerful. There is no place in the nowadays word for someone who is kind of slow or can't keep the rhythm with the rest of the population or be as fast in the way of thinking, creating or just fulfilling the tasks as any computer or best robot. People are running into each other and don't care if the person the have hit is still alive. We don't look back anymore. The only thing is the problem in front of us! We need to be fat, maybe faster than we are able to be and so we forget values that used to matter. Do we think about number of people dying on the roads where everyone is running on higher speed then the speed limit is. One second is enough to take somebody's life away to become a killer one who decided about life of someone else. We don't necessarily need to kill people. Life on a wheelchair or without a hand or with ugly face isn't any better. People are in a hurry so they pay for speeding. Money is the thing! The thing that means everything to us but how much are we willing to pay for our mistakes? British government is saying double of the range that people pay now and stricter license policy. No one wants to pay more and be responsible but what is the price for life? Just in case???

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