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A federal judge approved a partial settlement between WorldCom and federal regulators Tuesday that calls for an unspecified fine and continued government oversight of the telecommunications company.The settlement, stemming from civil fraud charges related to the company s $9 billion accounting scandal, includes a permanent injunction barring further violations of security laws, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said.The settlement also calls for the continuation of a court-appoin
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DefenseTech has a good summary of a recent 60 Minutes segment on the F-35, America most expensive combat airplane yet. The Pentagon talks about how it uses Star Wars-level technology. The pilots, however, aren ;t so enthusiastic. RD-D2 vs HAL 9000 CBS News ; national security correspondent David Martin says that the airplane Au
stanley kubek tonomic Logistics Information System ALIS鈥攑ronounced Alice is like R2-D2 because it really does control what the F-35 can do 8230; She looks basically like a laptop computer and the pilot carries it out to the plane and sticks it in a slot right next to him in the
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