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Submission + - 5th Amendendment Right to Block password entering?

Submitted by old cracker on Saturday December 15, 2007 @12:51PM

old cracker writes: The Volokh Conspiracy http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_12_09-2007_12_15.shtml#1197670606 has an interesting writeup on a magistrate judge's ruling in Vermont declaring that the government shall not enter your passphrase for access to a seized hard drive. The case facts involve, what else, child pornography. When the government moved to compel the man to enter his passphrase, the judge ruled that the forced entrance of the man's PGP passphrase would be a "testimonial", presumably referring to this section of the 5th amendment: "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution I'm not sure how your url formatting goes, but I wanted the VC and the 5th amendment phrase to be clickable, and normally i spell my name "old cr&cker", but it seems to kill your text handler, putting an "amp" in there...

Submission + - Sun's Schwartz sued for copyright infringement (netbula.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15, 2007 @06:36AM

An anonymous reader writes: Sun Micro sued the programmer for trademark infringement, and the C++ hacker sued Jonathan Schwartz for vicarious and contributory copyright infringement. http://netbula.com/lawsuit/ 61. Without getting any response from DeCecco or anyone else from SUN, in August and September 2006, Plaintiff twice emailed SUN's CEO and President, Jonathan Schwartz, informing him about the infringement. No SUN employee responded to the two email messages. 62. On information and belief, Julie DeCecco and Jonathan Schwartz, instead of stopping the infringement, employed delay tactics to continue the infringement. Schwartz and DeCecco forwarded Plaintiff's email messages and related documents to other SUN employees (including Melnick) and potentially SUN's outside counsel, preparing for lawsuit while permitting the infringement to continue at SUN and its customers. One of SUN's planned strategies was to sue Plaintiff personally by alleging trademark infringement on the JAVA and SUN marks. 63. On information and belief, Schwartz owned millions shares of SUN stocks and derivative securities and was involved in the day-to-day management of SUN's operations, including operating a blog and answering questions from customers or prospective customers.

Submission + - Austria Joins the Race for U.S. Presidency (ecoresearch.net)

Submitted by

ecoresearch

on Saturday December 15, 2007 @06:27AM

ecoresearch writes: "No, Arnold Schwarzenegger is not running for 2008, but a team of Austrian researchers has just released a news monitoring system to track the candidates' performance on the campaign trail. Weekly snapshots of online coverage contrast the perceptions of news media, companies, bloggers and environmental organizations. Users get an in-depth view of the diverging perceptions of different interest groups. The system measures attention and sentiment towards the candidates, reports associated keywords and includes a visual interface to query the geotagged news archive. Information landscapes, geographic maps, ontology graphs and tag clouds help understand complex semantic relationships within the data. Besides tracking recent trends, users can also cast their vote for their preferred candidate. A 6-minute screencast summarizes the major components of the Web site."

Submission + - Cyclope - Employee Monitoring Software (cyclope-series.com)

Submitted by on Saturday December 15, 2007 @05:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: The employee monitoring software developed by Cyclope-Series is specially designed to inform and equip management with statistics relating to the productivity of staff within their organization.

Designed from a management perspective, the remarkable ease of use coupled with its superior functionality affords Cyclope-Series's position as market leader in providing employee monitoring software solutions.

http://www.cyclope-series.com/employee-surveillance/employee-monitoring-software.html

Submission + - Colbert's Run For President May Be Criminal (go.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Saturday October 27, 2007 @08:15AM

eldavojohn writes: "Some of you may know about Steven Colbert's fake presidential campaign ... although are you sure it's fake? Well, it had better be because if it is taken too far, his use of corporations & advertising to back his campaign is illegal. Doritos & Comedy Central could be facing some problems as well, funding a man running for president. Will taking his satirical spin on politics all the way get him and his sponsors a lawsuit?"

Submission + - Significan Mars Finding

Submitted by

54mc

on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @02:27AM

54mc writes: "Last week, NASA announced that the Mars Global Surveyor may be near the end of its mission. Nasa today will announce a "significant find" on Mars. The announcement will be carried on NASA TV and streaming online at NASA TV's website."

Submission + - WHO CONTROLS GOOGLE MAPS?

Submitted by

Ean Schuessler

on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @02:17AM

Ean Schuessler writes: "I have some friends from New Orleans in a band called The Spores and they brought it to my attention that Google Maps has apparently changed its satellite database imagery for New Orleans to pre-Katrina data. Why, precisely, they would want to do something like this is a question I find as unsettling as it is mysterious. The original story was on New Orleans Voices for Peace but I first read it on The Spores blog and posted additional useful links to pre and post images there. Oh, I also tried contacting Google Maps manager Bret Taylor but did not receive a response. Did I mention that Google's Global Communications and Strategy VP is an ex-Carlyle Group superstar? Strap on those tin-foil hats kids!"

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