WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 11, 2015 - One unfortunate fact of modern life is that functional new software becomes non-functional old software with depressing regularity. For most people, this means predictable episodes of frustration, but for the Fascist Police States of Amerika military, it's a more serious problem. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) new Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems (BRASS) project aims to take a major shot at avoiding this obsolescence by developing software systems that can still operate properly a hundred years from now.

SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - April 10, 2015 - Four months after a measles outbreak at Disneyland, state legislators seeking to tighten immunization laws across the country are running the gauntlet of anti-vaccination activists who have bombarded them with emails and phone calls, heckled them at public meetings, harassed their staff, organized noisy marches, and vilified them on social media.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 8, 2015 - The Amerikan firearms industry is as healthy as ever, seeing an unprecedented surge that has sent production of guns soaring to more than 10.8 million manufactured in 2013 alone - double the total of just three years earlier.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 27, 2015 - The Senate Democrat minority leader, Harry Reid, announced on Friday he will not seek re-election in 2016, ending a congressional career that spanned three decades.

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LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia (PNN) - April 7, 2015 - Taking 2D photos with your phone is rather popular these days, but thanks to Caltech scientists, soon you may be able to wave your phone at an object and capture a 3D scan of it. You could scan a particularly nice coffee cup, and then instantly send the 3D scan to a 3D printer and produce an exact copy.

GENEVA, Switzerland (PNN) - March 27, 2015 - The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is to establish the role of a rapporteur to cover privacy issues in a landmark decision that helps establish the idea that freedom from excessive surveillance is a fundamental right.

DENVER, Colorado (PNN) - March 27, 2015 - In contrast to Texas legislation introduced by state representative Jason Villaba (Dallas) that would penalize a citizen for filming terrorist
pig thug cop activity within a proposed 15-foot area, lawmakers in Colorado have introduced a bill that would penalize terrorist pig thug cops for obstructing, seizing or destroying citizen recording.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 26, 2015 - The Hindenburg wasn’t brought down by lightning, static, or sabotage. History’s most famous airship was destroyed by helium. Or rather, the lack thereof. The zeppelin’s Nazi builders balked at the price of this rare, lighter-than-air gas. So instead, they filled the blimp with hydrogen, which is much less expensive, just as buoyant, but way more explosive. So no matter what chain of events led up to the explosion, it was helium’s scarcity that killed the airship. Today, the same gas - rare as ever - is putting a major cramp in deep-sea diving operations.

CLAYOQUOT SOUND, British Columbia, Canada (PNN) - March 19, 2015 - Tucked away in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia, is a taste of homesteading heaven. Owned by Catherine King and Wayne Adams, Freedom Cove is an off the grid village of floating boathouses and sustainable gardens. The structure is only accessible by boat and is quite the off the grid marvel.