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RSS Hijacking

CIS Fellow Colette Vogele has an interesting post about RSS hijacking, how it's done, how to stop it, and the legal implications.  She also points to Adam C…

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Shop 'Til You Are Pushed

After thinking about it a bit, the Black Friday shopping story wasn't just shopping, it's publicity. Please read this I hope in the spirit of skepticism…

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VoIP Regulations

2005 is coming to a close and we just passed a FCC imposed deadline on Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) carriers.  Four moths ago, the FCC mandated that VoIP carriers provi…

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"LIFE" DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY SPYWARE!

...So reads a customer review on the Amazon product information page for the "Content/Copy-Protected" version of Ricky Martin's new CD, Life.    A…

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"Teach Peace" as a political slogan

I think I can see how conflict resolution is being politicized, and why it is raising the hackles of some on the political right.  Those who opposed the war are…

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Judge Posner and Pragmatism

As I wind my way through the books on political theory and democracy I find it pretty depressing.  Especially now that I'm reading Judge Posner's Pragma…