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Is Congress Finally Considering Killing Patent Trolls?
Authored by: albert on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 01:54 PM EDT
Link

CRS reports are interesting reading. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Publishes ALL CRS reports, even though they are not released to the public.

Check out the following link: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/

Secrecy News monitors developments in government secrecy, and the articles are timely, and often scary.

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  • more likely - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 03:27 PM EDT
FBI, AntiSec Spar On Apple IDs
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 04:03 PM EDT
informationweek

OK. we're into Spy vs Spy now so any truth will be that much harder to find. Conspiracy theory subscriptions are free, so here's mine:
The data is real, it was accumulated by underhand means and planted on a gray hat honeypot. Our spook (Stangl) now had the data and was wondering what to do with it, when it was reclaimed from him as a sting. There are other things that have me going hmmmm, like 40 real email addresses in a To: field; and the suggestion that the double agent Sabu/Monsegur is implicated; and the obvious like Java, and susceptibility to being fished...

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NP: "First Lady's convention speech removed from YouTube"
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 05 2012 @ 11:03 PM EDT
"First Lady's convention speech removed from YouTube" (Digital Life on Today.com article, 5 Sept.'12)

This sort of mess points to the need for a pre-emptive, "public interest" exception to the DMCA. A speech by a public figure (e.g. politician, pol's family member, actor) would require a court order for a takedown. Until such a writ has been delivered the speech will air. This is in the spirit of the First Amendment.

MB94128

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Apple patent could remotely disable protesters' phone cameras
Authored by: soronlin on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 04:02 AM EDT
Apple patent could remotely disable protesters' phone cameras I hope Apple goes ahead and implements this. I can just imagine the effect it will have on teenagers when only iPhones are cut off from texting in school. Suddenly Apple isn't cool any more.

Then there is a court case from the first person who can't dial 999/911 because he is outside an office where phones don't work. Radio doesn't respect walls. Cue lots of bad reporting and half-understood reports, and the take-away will be "iPhones can't dial 911".

The only way Apple could have succeeded in deploying this technology would have been not to patent it.

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The vote is counted but doesn't affect the final outcome.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 03:47 PM EDT
They don't get the purpose of a positive abstention.
Shouldn't a majority of "none of the above" give a null result?

Federal Judge Slammed for Trying to Tank Las Vegas Ballot Appeal Courthouse News

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