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- In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
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- I Believe In The Right To Own Firearms Despite Virginia Tech Tragedy
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  If everyone owned and was trained to use a gun, we wouldn’t have any problems. A lot of the gun deaths are accidental because people aren't following proper safety procedures. Would Cho have gone into those classrooms if he’d felt someone else had a firearm? In Florida, when they first enacted their concealed carry permits, their overall crime rate dropped. But the crime rate against tourists increased because the criminals knew the tourists didn’t have a firearm.
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- The malignant resentments that erupted into mass murder in Virginia
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  The Virginia Tech tragedy, which led to the brutal deaths of 33 people, is an event that needs to be considered soberly and at length. But even before funerals have taken place and the dead properly memorialized, government and university officials are urging students, faculty and the population at large to “move on.”
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- The Virginia Tech massacre-- social roots of another American tragedy
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  A day after the mass killing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, along with grief and dismay, some reflections on life in the US are clearly in order. The event was horrifying, but no one who has followed the evolution of American society over the past quarter-century will be entirely shocked. Such psychopathic episodes, including dozens of multiple killings or attempted killings in workplaces and schools, have occurred with disturbing regularity, particularly since the mid-1980s.
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- Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  But 20 months ago, the Supreme Court reversed this wise policy of deference. Drawing upon common law-like power, the court expanded the Copyright Act in the Grokster case to cover a form of liability it had never before recognized in the context of copyright — the wrong of providing technology that induces copyright infringement. It announced this new form of liability even though at precisely the same time Congress was holding hearings about whether to amend the Copyright Act ...
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- Negroponte says Linux too Fat
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  Suddenly it's like a very fat person [who] uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.'"
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- Microsoft hit by another unpatched IE flaw | Tech News on ZDNet
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  An unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer could aid fraudsters in pulling off phishing scams, experts have warned
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okami comments on:
Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes'

okay. . .we’re busy creating CyberDyne Systems now. . .how long till we get to the Matrix?

looks like we’re gonna be living in the world of Philip K Dick’s ‘Second Variety’ soon. . .oh, boy. . .

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12:53 am 12/03/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
Microsoft stock at 10-year low

definatly NOT Ms is never comming back they back stabed their own customers too many times

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3:04 pm 11/15/08
srebrenicagenocideinfo comments on:
Microsoft stock at 10-year low

I guess, it’s time to buy (or NOT).

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1:48 pm 11/15/08
johnpetersen comments on:
Microsoft stock at 10-year low

Thank for your information. I hope that it will never happen in upcoming years. It will surely hign within this weeks.
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12:36 pm 11/14/08
Jeff comments on:
Microsoft stock at 10-year low

I am pretty sure just about everything is at a ten year low!

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12:14 am 11/14/08
Jon comments on:
New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

Marshall Kirkpatrick had an insightful, skeptical take on this.

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7:24 pm 5/13/08
Damianmann comments on:
New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

Ya…but it’s GOOGLE !!!???!!!

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12:19 am 5/13/08

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