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+ - Treasury Dept. Restricts Data with EULA-> 0

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Andurin

on Monday December 14, 2009 @01:45PM

Andurin writes "The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed restrictions on the way Americans (and others) can use and analyze data developed about the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The "terms of use," which are subject to change at any time, require users to cite FinancialStability.gov when writing about the data, and to state that the government doesn't vouch for the authenticity of the data once it's been downloaded. The Sunlight Foundation's policy counsel writes that the terms are similar to an EULA and are inconsistent with the Administration's recently announced Open Government Directive."
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+ - How your keyboard was made 0

Submitted by kpw on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @04:23PM

kpw writes "The National Labor Committee's recently released report on working conditions in the Meitai keyboard factory in China carefully details the illegal and inhumane working conditions that go into making products for companies like Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft and IBM. The products that Meitai builds include the very keyboard used to write this post. Take a moment to look through the photographs made over the last several months by the undercover investigators and see if you can spot your own keyboard on the assembly line. Then read through some of the statements from factory workers and, on their behalf, consider contacting the companies responsible for this travesty (contact information is provided at the bottom of the report)."

Comment: Juice Analytics on the Colbert Bump (Score 1) 674

by kpw10 on Thursday August 14, 2008 @11:27AM (#24599919) Attached to: Measuring the "Colbert Bump"

Juice Analytics did this nifty research project on Colbert Bump as well: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/colbert-bump/

+ - Potential cure for antibiotic resistant infections-> 0

Submitted by kpw10 on Monday July 09, 2007 @09:55PM

kpw10 writes ""Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that two drugs used to treat bone loss in old folks can both kill and short-circuit the 'sex life' of antibiotic-resistant bacteria blamed for nearly 100,000 hospital deaths across the country each year.""
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