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  Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry a "Financial Fail 2007-05-05 20:33 Eric Goldman

Submitted by Eric Goldman on Saturday May 05 2007, @08:33PM
Eric Goldman writes "A couple of years ago, Utah and Michigan enacted "Child Protection Registries" that allow parents to register kids' email addresses and then requires certain email senders to filter registered email addresses before sending their emails. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the Utah registry has been a "finanacial failure." Initially projected to generate $3-6 million in revenues for Utah, it has instead generated total revenues of less than $200,000, 80% of which has gone to Unspam, the for-profit registry operator. As a result, Utah's share of the registry's revenues: a paltry $37,445. Worse, Utah has spent $100,000 (so far) to defend the law from constitutional challenges."
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  A full VoIP PBX in a USB memory stick 2007-04-24 23:01 RogerMo

Submitted by RogerMo on Tuesday April 24 2007, @11:01PM
RogerMo writes "Looks like VoIP has a new form factor with a business bundling an asterisk deployment into a live-USB linux memory stick. From the site: " The VoIP TelePort is a voice over IP business phone system built into the form factor of a USB memory stick. This exciting new product brings the power and features of an expensive enterprise PBX into a small handheld USB memory stick. Plug-in the VoIP TelePort into any modern desktop, laptop or server with a USB port and you will have a full VoIP phone system.""
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Submitted by Uzbek on Monday April 23 2007, @02:53PM
Uzbek writes "As BBC reports, first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, has died from heart failure on April 23. In the West he is regarded as champion of democracy and market reforms while in Russia many accuse him of ending USSR in 1991, disbanding democratically elected Parliament with military force in 1993 and forcing economic "shock therapy" that has left majority of Russians impoverished while paving a way for Russian oligarchs."
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  OpenOffice gets (more) business savvy 2007-04-23 01:50 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 23 2007, @01:50AM
An anonymous reader writes "Business intelligence software from Pentaho will be integrated into the next version of OpenOffice. From the story: Originally known as JFreeReport, Pentaho's reporting project was first released in May 2002, and acquired by Pentaho in December 2005. Since the acquisition, Pentaho has added a drag-and-drop report designer, MDX support, report scheduling, security and portal integration."
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  Prison releases felon after getting phony fax 2007-04-23 01:44 twigles

Submitted by twigles on Monday April 23 2007, @01:44AM
twigles writes ""Officials released a prisoner from a state facility after receiving a phony fax that ordered the man be freed, and didn't catch the mistake for nearly two weeks." Apparently even the most rudimentary steps are overlooked when technology is in play."
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  What is open source hardware? 2007-04-23 00:28 ptorrone

Submitted by ptorrone on Monday April 23 2007, @12:28AM
ptorrone writes "What is open source hardware? In this article MAKE magazine divides up electronic hardware into layers, each of which has different document types and licensing concerns: Hardware (mechanical) diagrams, schematics & circuit diagrams, layout diagrams, core/firmware, software/API — each layer has an example provided and links to many of the open source hardware projects currently being worked on."
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