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more about #politics Canoehead: I pity the fools who have to paw through these. I just finished helping out on a pro bono doc review for "an important civil rights case", and of the... more » blash: Article photo is WIN more » FriarNurgle: Just file them away, Johnson. more » Ryan_Long: 22,000,000 emails is a lot. Trust me. But how many people work in the federal government with these 'lost' emails? Say it's 50,000. That's only 440 pe... more » Slinkytech: Once they release them though we'll never see it on any news network, that's for sure. Five years from now they're still gonna be humping tiger woods'... more » SophT: ha, a joke at Bush's expense. Good stuff, that's why I come to Gizmodo - for the politics. /sarcasm more » thechansen: Ignoring any political commentary: The lack of redundant backups (and offsite back ups) from an IT perspective is just plain gross. Of course I don'... more » EpiphyteCorp.: Thank goodness we now have the transparent administration we were promised!...... right? more » Nick: Hey W! We found your spam folder! You still want these pills? more » Charles Hamilton: Fantastic. Now if you were just as concerned about the "lost" climate data from the IPCC and the CRU. more » RainyDayInterns: Maybe they should send that team into Iraq to look for the WMDs...oh wait...the WMDs weren't "lost"... sorry, our mistake. more » dallasmay: Cheney: "Well, nuts. It seems we lost a few e-mails during the past 8 years." Technician: "Oh, that's not a problem Mr. Vice President, we have new t... more » nutbastard: "the same email messages the Bush White House denied losing." you mean the same 22 million emails they CLAIMED they 'lost'? more » Twanzio: 22 million emails seems like a lot, but it take our office of 12 people about 42 emails just to figure out where we're going for lunch. more » Kaiser-Machead: from: D. Cheney[I_B_QuailShootn@yahoo.com] to: The Dubya [gwbushroolz@aol.com] date Fri. Dec 13, 2002 at 5:49 PM subject: Condi Pics. lol hawt :) [bo... more » ManiacFive: I'm not sure how it works in the states, could somebody clarify this for me? Using o2 in the UK for an example, if you sign up for a 18 month contract... more » OMG! Ponies!: My only problem with ETFs is from a legal standpoint. Penalty fees are not legally permissible. As the motion court (correctly) held in Ayyad v. Spr... more » Duckspwn: Everyone, please raise your hand if you do not want to get involved in this argument. *raises hand* more » Petey-ed: Silly Democrats. Always wanting to have cake and eat it too. Get your hands out of a system that ISN'T broken and get your hands into something that i... more » Mayor McRib: I don't have a problem with ETF's, I just have a problem with them being doubled. If they want to charge $350 they had better be giving away their bes... more » -
#email
"Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered
According to the AP, soon-to-be-heroic technicians have uncovered 22 million email messages from the George W. Bush administration—far more than the Bush White House said they'd lost in the first place. More » -
#politics
Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees
Amy Klobuchar, True America Hero and Senator of Minnesota, introduced a bill in Congress today in response to Verizon's doubled early termination fees, aiming to limit them. More » -
#netneutrality
Losing Net Neutrality: The Worst Case Scenario
It's alarmist, over-the-top pro-net-neutrality propaganda, sure, but this chart goes a long way to explaining why the IT dude at the office wears that "All Packets are Created Equal" shirt to work every Thursday: because tiered ISPs are scary. More » -
#government
Obama Administration Gets Their Own Cloud Computing App Store
Vivek Kundra, the Obama Administration CIO, just opened up a new app store for federal agencies so that they can get up on these wacky, government-approved cloud computing programs. Looks like he's following through on his promises. More » -
#politics
Medicare Would Rather Buy $8000 Computer than $150 iPhone App
Say that, all things equal, you could fix a problem for $8000 or fix the same problem for $150. Which would you choose? Clearly, you are not Medicare. More » -
#rumorsmash
President Obama Isn't Really Trying to Take Over the Internet
It was pretty much the perfect story: The Senate introduced a bill that would let the President take over the entire internet during a crisis. Our online Weimar Republic is crumbling beneath the digital Führer! Minor catch: It wasn't true. More » -
#politics
Senate Pushes Bill to Ban Texting While Driving
Though 14 states have already banned text messaging while driving, the Senate introduced a bill today that would essentially force the remaining states to pass a similar bill—despite there being no good way to enforce such a ban. More » -
#sony
Sony's Interior Walls Are Slowly Coming Down
Sony's problem wasn't just that its right hand didn't know what its left hand was doing, it was that its right index finger didn't even know that its right thumb belonged on the same hand. But they're changing. Slowly. More » -
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#imagecache
This Is Where Each of Your 1.421 Trillion Dollars Is Going In 2010
Want to know where your tax money is going next year? Here's more than you can handle in the new 2010 edition of the Death and Taxes poster. Zoom in to see how much those F-35 fighters and lasers cost. More » -
#photoshopcontest
Let's Shame Kim Jong Il
So, North Korea's Kim Jong Il thinks he can scare us with threats about nuking Hawaii, does he? I'm not scared of some dictator with a Napoleon complex. So lets shame him the only way we know how: with Photoshop. More » -
#fcc
FCC Now Looking Into Exclusive Handset Deals With Mobile Carriers
After some prodding from John Kerry earlier in the week, the FCC is going to investigate exclusive deals struck between phone makers and mobile carriers, to see whether or not they stifle consumer choices and the development of new technology. More » -
#politics
Senator Kerry Doesn't Like Apple-AT&T Exclusive iPhone Deal
Presidential race loser and US Senator John Kerry (remember him?) has sent a note to the FCC basically asking why AT&T has an exclusive iPhone contract with Apple. Two years after its introduction? This horse is late to the race: More » -
#cybersecurity
Obama Administration Adds Renowned Hacker to Homeland Security Advisory Council
Jeff Moss, who you may know as the founder of the hacking conference DefCon, was sworn in yesterday as one of the new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. And we think it's a shrewd and thoughtful move. More » -
#law
Obama's Supreme Court Nominee Knows Stuff About Computers
Pundits have framed President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, as a judicial equivalent to her predecessor. Not quite: Justice Souter is a proud luddite who has never owned a computer. Sotomayor, on the other hand, is a nerd. More » -
#robots
'Robobama' Gets Prepped for July 4th Debut at Disney World
Disney technicians are hard at work on an incredibly-lifelike robotic version of President Obama. Dick Cheney is reportedly working on a virus to cause the robot to fail. More » -
#science
Obama Pledges 3%+ of GDP—as Much as Defense Spending—to Scientific Research
This morning, Obama made a huge pledge to focus more money on scientific research—more than the US spent during the space race. In fact, it's almost as much as we spend on defense. More » -
#politics
President Obama Nominates Aneesh Chopra as the First Chief Technology Officer
Today, President Obama officially named his nominee for the new position of Chief Technology Officer: Aneesh Chopra, current Secretary of Technology for Virginia. We'll explain who Chopra is and what his new responsibilities will be. More » -
#globalwarming
Obama Considers Zany Climate Engineering Gadgets to Fight 'The Warming'
Obama is apparently considering using a machine that would suck up smog and shoot it into the upper atmosphere—reflecting the sun's rays—as a way to fight global warming. I'm not joking. More » -
#fcc
FCC Developing First Ever National Broadband Plan
Beginning this morning with a one-hour meeting, the FCC embarked on a mission to roll out a national broadband plan within a year's time. Where are they starting? With you. More » -
#healthcare
Obama's Plan to Digitize Medical Records Draws Criticism from Doctors
Digitization of medical records is one of Obama's most prominent talking points: he claims modernizing records will save lives and billions of dollars at the same time. But some doctors aren't taken with the idea. More »
