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- Posted by The Happy Tutor For all you Libertarian policy intellectuals out there.... Better starve free than be a fat slave. A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by. "Ah, Cousin," said the Dog. |
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- The Press Association reports that: "Farid Hilali, 35, was due to appear at Bow Street magistrates court in London today but prison officials failed to deliver him to court. It was understood to have been an oversight." How is it... |
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- swissinfo - title='Get more information from the WikiPedia Open Encyclopedia' >Switzerland - Dataprotection chief warns of new privacy threats. The head of Switzerland's data protection commission says anti-terrorism measures and more e-government are undermining personal privacy. Hanspeter Thür also condemned the United States for ordering airlines to hand over sensitive personal data under tough new border controls. |
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- Slashdot | U.S. Government Sometimes Jams Keyless Car Locks? PizzaFace writes "The Washington Post reports that in certain towns (generally near military bases), on certain days (such as the day an aircraft carrier returns to port), keyless car entry systems and remote garage door openers mysteriously fail. While some frustrated motorists blame aliens, the FCC says the jammed frequencies belong to the U. |
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- Slashdot | E-voting to be a 'Train Wreck'?. An anonymous reader writes "The Seattle PI has published an AP story about the problems with E-Voting. Her conclusion is that there will be so many problems with the more than 100,000 paperless voting terminals to be used in the November presidential election that the fiasco will dwarf Florida's hanging chad debacle of 2000." |
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - High-Tech: Activist: E-voting to be a 'train wreck'. SAN JOSE, Calif. |
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- Slashdot | Big Brother Awards for Privacy Invaders. Dozix007 writes "The Register reports that the shortlist for this year's Big Brother awards for nasty privacy invaders has been released. The awards include: Worst Public Servant, Most Invasive Company, Most Appalling Project, Most Heinous Government Organisation and Lifetime Menace Award - now renamed the David Blunkett Lifetime Menace Award. Pressure group Privacy International, which organises the awards, said it was overwhelmed by nom... |
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- Slashdot | Security Statistics and Operating Conventional Wisdom. kev0153 writes "Microsoft Windows is more secure than you think, and Mac OS X is worse than you ever imagined. That is according to statistics published for the first time this week by Danish security firm Secunia. "Secunia is now displaying security statistics that will open many eyes, and for some it might be very disturbing news," said Secunia chief executive Niels Henrik Rasmussen. "The myth that Mac OS ... |
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- computerweekly.com - Security statistics show surprising finds. The Micorsoft Windows application is more secure than you think, and Mac OS X is worse than you ever imagined. That is according to statistics published for the first time this week by Danish security firm Secunia. The statistics, based on a database of security advisories for more than 3,500 products during 2003 and 2004 sheds light on the real security of enterprise applications and operating systems. |
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- Slashdot | MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE. brightertimes writes "That's right folks, Slate (Microsoft's on-line magazine) recently printed an article enitled "Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer."" |
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- Slashdot | USA, UK, Australia Sign Anti-Spam Memorandum. securitas writes "Computerworld's Todd R. Weiss reports that the USA, Britain and Australia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for six agencies to share resources to fight spam. The MoU lets the government agencies 'share information and work together to detect, investigate and track spammers' as well as 'exchange evidence and coordinate enforcement efforts.' The agencies involved include the US Federal Trade Commission ... |
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- Slashdot | Evaman Worm Attacks Email Servers. An anonymous reader writes "CoolTechZone is reporting that the mail servers of various popular email services such as Hotmail and Yahoo to be bogged down with a new worm, code-named Evaman. The headings are common to the ones users encounter everyday in their inbox - "Failed Transaction" or "Delivery Failure". This worm has the potential to take control over Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, NT, and Windows Server 2003." |
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- Privacy Digest celebrated our Fifth anniversary yesterday - Sunday, July 4, 2004. Back on July 4,1999 I split the privacy news collection off from another weblog and gave it its own domain. So I hope you enjoyed the fireworks I requested. If you would like to help me celebrate you can either get something from the title="A few books/things from Amazon.com that I'd love to have to help me run this site"> |
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- Follow the links in this post by Tim Jarrett to learn about Yahoo's first attempt at a gated community built around RSS. You gotta watch these big companies, they just naturally want to own things that belong to everyone. |
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- "Among software developers and in the technology trade press, use of the term 'open source' dominates use of the term 'free software' by 95%-5% or more..."... |
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- Michelle over at Serenity Dawn had one of those blogging frenzy days yesterday when she posted five posts in just a few hours. One that caught my eye was Where's your focus? where she talks about 'money'. 'What would people... |
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- The climax:If you were asked this (strange) question - Why reporters now need special visas to visit the United States? - go to the Los Angeles Press Club website for the answer: "At least 20 foreign journalists were blocked, when... |
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- Израильские военнослужащие проводят крупную операцию на границе с Египтом, сообщает РИА "Новости" со ссылкой на агентство Reuters. Целью операции является поиск туннелей, используемых для тайных поставок оружия из Египта на палестинские территории. Операция проводится израильскими солдатами при поддержке танков и вертолетов. Так, около 20 танков выстроились вдоль границы рядом с лагерем палестинских беженцев в Рафахе. |
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- I'm back in my computer chair still thinking about this issue of war and peace and the Church. I was just thinking (and shuddering) at how so many on the right were so disgusted with "all this talk" and how... |
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- Soccer star Wayne Rooney today revealed he at one time almost quit football to hang out with his mates. |
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- A Def Leppard music video is shown before the start of the drive-in movie in the Bowie Baysox parking lot, Sunday, June 27, 2004, in Bowie, Md. Since the movie is digital and front-projected on a giant inflated screen, the show can start before it's fully-dark out. (AP Photo/Leslie E. Kossoff) (Click for Large Photo) [yahoo: 2, +video +movie] |
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- Tanz und Tantra Workshop fr Frauen |
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- Privacy group points out worst offenders. The Register takes a look at this year's Big Brother Awards, a ceremony sponsored by Privacy International and dedicated to pointing out the more venomous attempts at trampling user privacy by governments and corporations world-wide. Among the awar.. |
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- Moore Approves Fahrenheit downloads. According to comments made to the Scottish Sunday Herald, Filmmaker Michael Moore says he is happy to let people share his latest film, Fahrenheit 9/11, via p2p networks. "I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people .. |
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- EFF fires up their lawyers in patent battle. We've discussed at length the absurdity of modern corporate patent grabs; instances where companies insist on patenting generic concepts such as "one-click shopping" or the use of scrollbars. The EFF has declared war on 10 such patents, all of which.. |
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- And piracy debate becomes irrelevant. Information week today has published their evaluation of Windows XP service pack 2. The five page preview takes a look at the improved firewall, the changes in IE, the addition of Windows "security center", and the decision to deliver automatic upda.. |
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- Pathetic now, but just you wait..... Sprint won't release the subscriber numbers for their frame-per second mobile phone television service MobiTV - probably for good reason. The poor quality of these services have not dampened analyst predictions that mobile phone vendors could pull i.. |
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- The death of traditional communications. Om Malik points to this recent interview with Michael Powell, where the FCC chief waxes poetic on the future of broadband connectivity. Powell in particular has some interesting comments on the death of traditional communications networks. "We know.. |
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