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Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA | Electronic Frontier Foundation »
Posted by: berkeley 6 days, 14 hours ago in Science & Technology
Negotiations on the highly controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement start in a few hours in Seoul, South Korea. This week's closed negotiations will focus on ...
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Dayton,FL July was cold, but no record »
Posted by: gunnyreef 3 months, 1 week ago in News
This month will go down as the second coolest July on record in the Dayton area, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
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Despite disputes about the Human Rights Act, we must unite around a common caus »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
This being Britain, an entirely unnecessary dispute is laden with tribal symbolism. The rights side is characterised as representing the left while the constitutional side ...
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Amazon.com Settles Kindle Remote e-Book Deletion Lawsuit »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 month, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Amazon.com, whose Orwellian e-book deletion moveA, removing copies of "1984" and "Animal Farm" remotely from customer's Kindles earned it much criticism, as well ...
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Trafigura drops bid to gag Guardian over MP's question »
Posted by: berkeley 4 weeks ago in Political News
But overnight numerous users of the social networking site Twitter posted details of Farrelly's question and by this morning the full text had been ...
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Major defeat for Bush/Obama position on secrecy - Glenn Greenwald »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The first sign that the Obama DOJ would replicate many of the worst and most radical arguments of the Bush DOJ was in the Jeppesen ...
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More twists in the tale of Binyam Mohamed »
Posted by: berkeley 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Former Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed has been back in the UK for two months, but his lawyers' year-long legal struggle to secure evidence from ...
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Is America getting more like China? »
Posted by: berkeley 1 month ago in Political Opinion
If you want to create a chilling effect against any sort of whistleblowing on gov't corruption, that's what this proposal does. It basically ...
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Obama seeks to block release of detainee photos »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months ago in News
In a reversal, President Barack Obama is fighting the release of dozens of new photos showing U.S. personnel allegedly abusing prisoners in Iraq and ...
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Ultrasecret NSA Has Conspicuous Role in New Federal Cybersecurity Center »
Posted by: berkeley 1 week, 3 days ago in Political News
Congress and civil libertarians have always been twitchy about involving the ultrasecretive National Security Agency—masters of electronic spying—more deeply in domestic security matters ...
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doubleTwist Spoofs Apple's Famed "1984" Ad »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 month, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
doubleTwist, which purportedly wants to "liberate your media" (by removing DRM) and which earlier this year took the particularly gutsy step of putting an ad ...
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Slaughter at McDonald's changed how police operate - CNN.com »
Posted by: kr112157 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
When James Huberty walked into a McDonald's restaurant 25 years ago this month, he knew he was going to kill somebody. He probably didn ...
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Britain 'nation of form fillers watched by quarter of world's CCTV cameras' »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months ago in Political News
National debt is running at £175,000 per household, five times more than thought, while each year the Government has passed 3,500 regulations, along ...
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xkcd - A Webcomic - I Know You're Listening »
Posted by: Tali99 10 months, 1 week ago in Humor
A Webcomic
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Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit »
Posted by: berkeley 1 week, 3 days ago in Political News
Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.
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