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NY Times Cannot Spell Mahatma Gandhi's Name
I confess to being surprised that the Times editorial that I read (in the national edition in paper form) this morning misspelled Gandhi's name. I'm s…
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Google's library project
A couple articles today discuss copyright concerns that Google is facing with respect to its "Library Project." Business Week reports in this article…
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CIS talk presentation: different formats
In addition to the slides of my recent talk about trusted computing at the CIS in Stanford, there is also an audio version available. Furthermore, I have creat…
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"Animal House on the Night Shift"
The photo shows a young man, a taxi driver in Afghanistan, who, according to reports, was brutally killed by American soldiers at Bagram Air Force Base in Afgha…
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online delib
May 20, 2005- Speak at Online Deliberation Conference on legal issues and user participation online.…
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Finally: Tor for OSX:)
As of yesterday there is finally a end-user friendly Mac OS X version of Tor. Tor is a small tool endorsed by the EFF that allows users to anonymize their webtr…
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Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi Promotes Democracy Through Women's Rights
Yesterday, I had the privilege of meeting with Dr. Shirin Ebadi along with a few other faculty members here at UC Davis. The previous night she had given a pub…
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Toilets and People, Not Scripture
As a BBC report from April indicates, there are allegations that guards at Guantanamo put an inmate's face in the toilet and flushed repeatedly. What if it…
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A little bit of water creates large gulf
The economic difference on either side of the straits dividing Spain and Morocco are hard to believe. To the north, the average gross national income/per capit…
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Rioting in Islam's Defense
Irshad Manji speaks out against "the bloody, fiery riots that, in the name of honoring Islam, are killing an increasing number of Muslims and non-Muslims.&…
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Sony Continues Lead in Game Race
Sony unveiled its new game machine a few days after Microsoft unveils its machine. The Sony machine seems amazingly powerful, with microprocessors far speedier…
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Bush to Oppose Veto for New Permanent Members
According to Joel Brinkley of the NY Times: The United States has warned four nations campaigning jointly for permanent seats on the United Nations Security Cou…