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Submission + - Arizona Parents lose custody of kids over bathtime (azfamily.com) 1

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sv_libertarian
sv_libertarian writes: "An Arizona couple had their children taken from them by Child Protective Services when a Wal Mart employee developing pictures on a memory stick found pictures of the children in a bathtub, and reported the parents to local authorities. The parents were able to successfully challenge the matter, and are now suing Wal Mart, among others over the matter."
Idle

Submission + - Police Swarm Bungie Office over HALO replica rifle (kotaku.com) 1

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sv_libertarian writes: A panicked person in Kirkland, WA called local police claiming they saw someone walking down the street with an AK-47, when it was actually an Bungie employee carrying an overgrown model of a HALO sniper rifle. Which resembles an AK-47 as much as a Volkswagen resembles a Formula 1 racer...
The Internet

Submission + - The Oldest Surviving Web Pages (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by sv_libertarian
sv_libertarian writes: Some of these ghosts of the internet date right back to the very early 1990s — alongside today's flash and multimedia-rich extravaganzas, they may look creakingly dated but, amazingly, they still work.
Mozilla

Submission + - Firefox 4.0 goes Chrome, new UI in Q4 2010 (tgdaily.com)

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sv_libertarian writes: Mozilla recently updated its product roadmap through 2010. According to the first draft, the current browser will see a minor update in Q4 2009 as well as Q2 2010. Version 4.0 is headed for an October or November 2010 release and will bring a new user interface and browser sync integration.
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Cost of digital media versus print media

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sv_libertarian
sv_libertarian writes: "I was looking at the Anchorage Daily News website today http://www.adn.com/ and noticed they offer a nice e-edition of their newspaper for $9.95 per month, while delivery of the print edition within the Anchorage area is $16.35 per month. This got me thinking about the value of professionally created news. With a print newspaper much of the cost is in delivery, although there of course is profit built into it. With an e-edition, the distribution cost is much less, but less advertising is included with it (inserts in the paper)so it isn't as profitable as the print version. All of the costs for news generation must still be covered though, regardless of how the product is distributed. So the question is, what is the value of an electronic version of a product that is also being distributed in hard copy? The simple answer of course is "what the market will bear" but I suspect there is something greater than that working behind the scenes. Have people come to expect to pay less for a digital version of a product, or is it expected to offer an e product and a smaller discount than a hard copy, allowing for reduced production and distribution costs?"
Privacy

Submission + - John Holdren on Eugenics (zombietime.com) 2

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sv_libertarian
sv_libertarian writes: "Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens. The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — informally known as the United States' Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that: Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not; The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food; Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise; People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized. A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives — using an armed international police force."
Operating Systems

Submission + - Google to offer PC OS based on Chrome (nytimes.com)

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sv_libertarian writes: "SAN FRANCISCO — In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs based on its Chrome Web browser. The move sharpens the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose Windows operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal computers."
Privacy

Submission + - When you watch these ads, the ads check you out (yahoo.com)

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sv_libertarian writes: "MILWAUKEE — Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there's a slim — but growing — chance the ad is watching you too. Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. The makers of the tracking systems say the software can determine the viewer's gender, approximate age range and, in some cases, ethnicity — and can change the ads accordingly."

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