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Copyright Stories Needed for Kahle v. Ashcroft
Lawrence Lessig and his legal team are asking for your help. Kahle v. Ashcroft is a lawsuit that challenges changes to U.S. copyright law that have created a la…
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WOS Days Two and Three
My day two at WOS started with a session by public libary activists giving information on their efforts to preserve computer games. While gaining recognition fr…
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Red Cross Complaints About Guantanamo
Memos detailing Red Cross complaints of abuse at Guantanamo are discussed in an article by Scott Higham today in the Washington Post. The memos were leaked to…
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Wendy Seltzer blogging WOS
You can check Wendy Seltzers impressions of the WOS at her blog.…
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Friday Evening--the Perfect Time for Bad News
The Administration's disclosure of its latest scandal--the partisan undercount of terrorist activity--occurs on a Friday afternoon/evening. This is the cle…
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Administration Has Difficulty Counting
The State Department acknowledged a significant undercount of terrorism incidents in its annual report on terror. It had earlier said that the report demonstra…
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Flick Australia
Catherine Flick, The Controversy over Trusted Computing, University of Sydney B.Sc. thesis, June 2004.…
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Wizards of OS Day One
First of all - this is huge. The third annually Wizards of OS has managed to draw both a profound crowd and a high profile range of speakers.The event took of w…
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US Government Torture Photos Revealed
The Washington Post produces more evidence of official torture by the United States, documenting the use of dogs to frighten--and attack--prisoners. The distur…
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Don't Talk, Guantanamo Workers Advised
Guantanamo employees are advised by the Government not to speak with defense lawyers for Gitmo prisoners about events there, according to USA Today: The docume…
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Bush Says He Didn't Approve Torture, But How Does He Define "Torture"?
Bush says he didn't violate U.S. or international law--but this begs the question: Is he simply relying on the contorted legal opinions upon which the Admin…
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David throws Goliath into Reexam
From Dan Ravicher at Public Patent Foundation NEW YORK -- The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued an Order granting the Public Patent Foundati…