Year: 2009

Felix Ortega, a confirmed Illegal Immigrant according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Service is charged with killing two Huntsville teenagers .

A 48 year old Carl Peterson barricaded himself inside his single wide trailer home overnight after police attempted to serve a warrant for his arrest for probation violations. — Espanola New Mexico.

Toshiba Corp has started to mass production on solid state drives (SSDs) with 512GB capacity. The drives are currently only available inside Toshiba’s own notebook and the company has reduced originally declared performance figures.

Toshiba’s 512GB SSDs are based on 43nm NAND multi-level cell flash and are currently highest-capacity 2.5” solid-state drives. Toshiba now declares up to 230MB/s sequential read speed and up to 180MB/s sequential write speed for the new family of solid state drives, which is below originally declared performance figures, but which is still very high performance compared to competing devices.

17 year old student at Canandaigua Academy committed suicide just after 11 a.m. Tuesday morning.

A woman was struck and killed by a Caltrain in Mountain View California today in what Officials said was a suicide.

The woman, whose name has not been released, layed down on the tracks less than a half-mile north of the San Antonio station about 10:30 A.M. and was hit by a southbound train.

Mark I. Levy, former assistant deputy attorney general in the Clinton Administration, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gun shot to the head at his Washington D.C. office.

“Friday evening, in a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrant-less wiretapping of countless Americans, the Obama Administration’s made two deeply troubling arguments.

First, they argued, exactly as the Bush Administration did on countless occasions, that the state secrets privilege requires the court to dismiss the issue out of hand. They argue that simply allowing the case to continue “would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security.” As in the past, this is a blatant ploy to dismiss the litigation without allowing the courts to consider the evidence.” Communism anyone ? –Source EFF