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The US government has blocked a Texas-based company from distributing details online of how to make a plastic gun using a 3-D printer [...]
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The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. ISP’s have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website. But tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their [...] The website YouHaveDownloaded.com will let you know if they have your current IP address in their Naughty List. The scary part is, that you could simply enter an IP address of another household and view the downloading habits of another. Anyone think this won’t be misused? [...] The White House today proposed sweeping revisions to U.S. copyright law, including making “illegal streaming” of audio or video a federal felony and allowing FBI agents to wiretap suspected infringers. In a 20-page white paper (PDF), the Obama administration called on the U.S. Congress to fix “deficiencies that could hinder enforcement” of intellectual property laws. [...] Its time once again to celebrate the turning of the Unix system time. Usually we just celebrate the turning of some aesthetically pleasing number of seconds (like 1234567890), but far less often are we privileged to celebrate the number of epoch days turning a significant number. Epoch days being the number of days since January [...] A blog threatening members of Congress in the wake of the Tucson, Arizona shooting has prompted Arlington police to temporarily suspend the firearms license of an Arlington man. It was the headline “1 down and 534 to go” that caught the attention. “One” refers to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in [...] The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released a warning seemingly aimed at a Washington Post article (to be released July 19th) which would provide an interactive map of government facilities, buy more about contractors and other entities involved in Top Secret operations, this site as well as their relationships to each other, [...] The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, clinic legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive. “The legislation says [...] While you’re reading this, a criminal could be logging in to your router and using it as a porn server. He could be using a Bluetooth “sniper rifle” (like the one shown below) to tap into your phone while you chat by the window. He could even physically steal your printer and capture [...] The U.S. Supreme Court’s sweeping ruling on Thursday that invalidated large chunks of campaign finance law arose in part from an unlikely source: the emergence of Facebook, YouTube, and blogs, and the decline of traditional media outlets. A 5-4 majority concluded that technological changes have chipped away at the justification for a law that allows [...] |
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