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Black and Whitey: How the Feds Disable Criminal Defense
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 07:32 AM EST
Two remarkable legal proceedings are currently wending their way through the federal criminal courts. The cases involve very different parties: Conrad Black, one of the most consequential public intellectuals and businessmen of our era, and James “Whitey” Bulger, a Boston-based alleged racketeer and serial murderer. But both cases highlight some of the same profound problems with the way federal prosecutorial business is done these days.

In both cases, as in countless others, the feds have used certain techniques that virtually assure convictions of both the innocent and the guilty, the wealthy and the poor, the violent drug dealer and the white collar defendant, indifferent to the niceties of “due process of law,” particularly the right to effective assistance of legal counsel. In order to prevent a defendant from retaining a defense team of his choice, federal prosecutors will first freeze his assets, even though a jury has yet to find them to have been illegally obtained. They then bring prosecutions of almost unimaginable complexity, assuring that the financially hobbled defendant’s diminished legal team (or, as is often the case, his court-appointed lawyer) will be too overwhelmed to mount an adequate defense.

Harvey Silverglate, Forbes

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom received the same treatment in New Zealand didn't he?

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"The Android SDK is No Longer Free Software"
Authored by: Tim on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 09:47 AM EST
This has just turned up on /. - Link

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Sony strikes again - this will raise hackles in some places.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 12:45 PM EST
See:-
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/01/03/report-new-sony-patent-blocks-second-hand-
games

In some jurisdictions the courts have already held that the vendor has no
control over second hand sales. So, if Sony is attempting to circumvent a legal
right they are in trouble.

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A Simple Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 02:21 PM EST
Dear Men,

Have you noticed that a lot of the time it just seems like, gosh, there are a lot of dudes speaking at this conference? Perhaps you've been on a panel and you've looked around and seen XY after XY after XY. Maybe you've thought, it's too bad the organizers didn't think to balance this out a bit more and ask some women to speak too.

I love that this has bothered you. And I am happy to tell you about a simple step you can take to help change this: Refuse to speak on all male-panels.

Just say no.

Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic

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Researchers Bypass IE-Zero-Day-Fix-It
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 08:18 PM EST
"researchers at Exodus Intelligence reported today .. new exploit beat a fully patched Windows system running IE 8" link

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Google blocking WP?
Authored by: vadim on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 04:15 AM EST
Found this thread on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/15yx0a/after_microsoft_
complains_that_google_is_blocking/
http://wmpoweruser.com/now-google-is-blocking-windows-phones-
from-accessing-maps-google-com/

Can somebody check the veracity of it please? Seem very un Google Like

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  • All spin - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 05 2013 @ 02:17 PM EST
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