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Submission + - Better Batteries through engineered carbon (cnet.com)

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on Monday February 13, 2012 @07:49PM

A Commentor writes: "A new plant opened in Albany, OR to make more effective batteries and ultra-capacitors, by using a specially engineered carbon. It can improve ultra-capacitors by 25%-30%. One use for them, would be in start-stop hybrid cars. It also promises lower prices for hybrid vehicles and grid storage."

Submission + - Forced to decrypt harddrive (cnet.com) 6

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on Monday January 23, 2012 @08:16PM

A Commentor writes: "I guess to balance the good news with the Supreme Court ruling on GPS, a judge in Colorado had ordered a defendant to decrypt their hard drive. Apparently, the government doesn't have the technology to break the PGP encryption."

Submission + - Photography rights in the U.S. (aclu.org)

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on Friday September 09, 2011 @05:22PM

A Commentor writes: "With law enforcement harassing photographers, the ACLU has provided information on photographer's rights in the U.S.: Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs from public places, and harassing, detaining and arresting those who fail to comply."

Submission + - Using copyright enforcement to suppress dissent. (nytimes.com)

Submitted by A Commentor on Sunday September 12, 2010 @12:44PM

A Commentor writes: Russian authorities, with the help of Microsoft, is confiscating computers, outspoken advocacy groups or opposition newspapers, under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software. Yet they rarely if ever carry out raids against advocacy groups or news organizations that back the government.

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