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Next Up for Nationalization: the Internet by Phil Kerpen on NRO Financial
Network neutrality, or net neutrality, is the beneficent-sounding name for sweeping new government regulatory power that would prohibit Internet service providers from innovating in their own networks. This could lead to much less broadband investment by private companies, and could potentially force government subsidization, control, and outright nationalization of the Internet. The implications of this are chilling.
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Enterprise Security Today | Potency of Web Attacks Alarms Security Experts
Attackers bent on shutting down large Web sites -- even the operators that run the backbone of the Internet -- are arming themselves with what are effectively vast digital fire hoses capable of overwhelming the world's largest networks, according to a new report on online security
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Reports Show Less Water Used In Organic Farming : EcoWorldly
Sellers of organic products all say the same thing: their products are better for our health and for the environment. So if you’re planning on chowing on organic cranberries, yams and free-range turkys this Thanksgiving, rest assured that your meal is good for you and Mother Earth on a different level. Organic farming also uses less water than commercial farming methods.
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Hey Big Brother, leave my levels alone - On the Level- msnbc.com
In Sony’s “LittleBigPlanet,” gamers made and uploaded levels that paid tribute to “Sonic the Hedgehog,” “Grand Theft Auto,” and, yes, “Super Mario Bros.” And in many cases, those levels were removed by moderators — often without warning.
Gamers in these nascent communities were furious.
“There’s really nothing we can do, except not create anymore levels on this game or just take it back in general and get our money back,” posted Josh1122 on the “LittleBigPlanet” forums. “I don't want to (it’s an awesome game) but what's the use of having a game where you CANT even create a level using the game’s OWN items without being moderated?”
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CyberThreatsReport2009.pdf (application/pdf Object)
On October 15, 2008, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) hosted its annual summit on emerging security threats and countermeasures affecting the digital world. At the conclusion of the event, GTISC released this Emerging Cyber Threats Report—outlining the top five information security threats and challenges facing both consumer and business users in 2009. This year’s summit participants include security experts from the public sector, private enterprise and academia, reinforcing GTISC’s collaborative approach to addressing information security technology and policy challenges.
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Wired Campus: Report on 'Emerging Cyber Threats' Raises Security Concerns About Smartphones - Chronicle.com
Internet-surfing cell phones were one of five top “emerging cyber threats” named in a new report by Georgia Tech’s Information Security Center.
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Bloomberg.com: Technology
AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. will probably face new Internet rules backed by Google Inc. under Barack Obama's administration, and find it more difficult to persuade the government to approve acquisitions.
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Wired Campus: An Obama Administration May Favor Net Neutrality - Chronicle.com
“The Democratic president-elect’s top technology priorities include ‘network neutrality’ policies that would bar Internet-service providers from accepting payments to make some Web sites work faster than others.”
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TG Daily - Shell Oil Company achieves 376.59 mpg in test car at Wood River Laboratory
Using fully stock production gasoline engine powered vehicles, with engine modifications limited only to changes in fuel mixture and ignition timing, Shell Oil Company served host to an open competition in automobile efficiency. The fruit of their forum was sweet indeed as a two-door, full-sized production car was able to drive off with the prize by achieving 376.59 miles in normal driving conditions using a single gallon of fuel. A more heavily modified vehicle was able to achieve over 1140 miles on a single gallon of fuel. Results like these are truly astounding and beg the question: Are we really getting all we can in efficiency from auto makers?
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Court Reshapes Patent Reform Debate
In a decision likely headed to the Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals upholds a patent court ruling that software and business methods can be patented only if they are implemented by a machine or transform something into a new or different thing. The decision reverses a decade-long trend of expanded patent protection.
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DailyTech - Court Finds File Hashes Subject to Fourth Amendment Protection
Federal agents seeking to generate MD5 hashes from files on a suspect’s hard drive must now obtain a warrant before doing so, says a Pennsylvania U.S. District Court, as such an act constitutes a government search protected by the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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Google's Copyright Case: Settlement Is A Wake Up Call - Tech Check with Jim Goldman - CNBC.com
The Google settlement comes at a key time for the company, and represents a huge win for rights holders, authors, and other intellectual property owners.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech giants in human rights deal
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have signed a global code of conduct promising to offer better protection for online free speech and against official intrusion.
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Microsoft Gets Patent for Patently Offensive Audio Content
Microsoft recently obtained a patent designed to create an Automatic Censorship of Audio Data For Broadcast . The invention is intended to act as a filter for live broadcasts where it is impracticable to delete or make inaudible certain undesired words or phrases. Additionally, other audio streams like music or games can utilize the automatic censor.
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10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA is the Law That Saved the Web | Threat Level from Wired.com
The DMCA (.pdf) was conceived a decade ago as the United States' implementation of an international copyright treaty called WIPO. Hollywood wanted the bill to protect its intellectual property from being infringed on a massive scale, and secured a still-troubling anti-circumvention rule that generally prevents consumers from bypassing copy protection schemes. But history has shown that the far-more beneficial element in the law is a provision that provides ISPs, hosting companies and interactive services near blanket immunity for the intellectual property violations of their users — a provision responsible for opening vast speech and business opportunities — realized and unrealized.
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Thais block anti-royal websites
The Thai government says it is planning to build an internet firewall to block websites deemed insulting to the country's hugely popular royal family.
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Web sites embrace human rights guidelines - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com
Leading Internet companies, long criticized by human rights groups for their business dealings in China, are agreeing to new guidelines that seek to limit what data they should share with authorities worldwide and when they should do so.
The guidelines, to be announced Tuesday, call for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to try to reduce the scope of government requests that appear to conflict with free speech and other human rights principles.
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Chinese angry over Microsoft anti-piracy tool - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com
Chinese Internet users have expressed fury at Microsoft's launch of an anti-piracy tool targeting Chinese computer users to ensure they buy genuine software.
The "Windows Genuine Advantage" program, which turns the user's screen black if the installed software fails a validation test, is Microsoft's latest weapon in its war on piracy in China, where the vast majority of 200 million computer users are believed to be using counterfeit software, unwittingly or not.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Australia trials national net filters
Is the Rudd government about to erect a Great Firewall of Australia - introducing a form of internet censorship that will infringe upon the freedom of computer users to browse the worldwide web?
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Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist
The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to provide a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" that will let packs of robots "search for and detect a non-cooperative human".
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