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Explosives vs. weapons
A Minneapolis TV station apparently filmed the Al Qaqaa facility on April 18th, nine days after Saddam's fall, with the boxes of explosives still intact. B…
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At Least the Ad-Guy Is Willing to Take the Fall
The Bush campaign doctored a photo to put in to Bush's backdrop soldiers where a podium had been. That's too easy to criticize. The more intriguing pa…
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Eminem's Call to Arms
Eminem's controversial new video for his song "Mosh," directed by Ian Inaba, sounds an anthem for a new generation. And ends with a call to vote…
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FBI Opens Probe into Halliburton Contracts
The Army Corps of Engineers' chief contracting officer alleged last week that the Army unfairly awarded Halliburton billions of dollars in no-bid contracts.…
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Gone With the Wind heirs, at it again
Looks like the Mitchell heirs are at it again. This time Project Gutenberg is their target. Read more about it at Copyfight and at teleread.org. UPDATE 11.8.…
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Amnesty Int'l Releases Reports on U.S. Torture
The new report offers Amnesty's comprehensive evaluation of U.S. practices. It quotes a decades-old report, one that remains relevant today, post 9/11: Ap…
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Record Opium Crop in Afghanistan
Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan, there's another problem brewing...…
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6th Circuit heading in right direction
Unlike the recent music sampling case (see my 9/17 entry), the 6th Circuit seems to be heading in the right direction on this one. If you've ever felt like…
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What Would a Bush Re-election Mean for Constitutional Liberties?
Ryan Walters and I have developed a game to dramatize the impact of a Bush re-election on our civil liberties. The game is entitled "Supreme Court Survivo…
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Brickell, DAA
Ernie Brickell, Jan Camenisch & Liqun Chen, Direct Anonymous Attestation, in: Atluri, Pfitzmann & McDaniel (eds.): Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conferenc…
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Boneh, Group Signatures with VLR
Dan Boneh & Hovav Shacham, Group Signatures with Verifier-Local Revocation, in: Atluri, Pfitzmann & McDaniel (eds.): Proceedings of the 11th ACM Confere…
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Boneh, Short Group Signatures
David Boneh, Xavier Boyen & Hovav Shacham, Short Group Signatures, in: Franklin (2004), Crypto 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3153, Springer 2004,…