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Submission + - Second chance for winner of space trip

Submitted by smooth wombat on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @10:22AM

smooth wombat writes: As a follow-up to this previous story, it appears Brian Emmett has been given a second chance at being flown into space.

He will now be employed as a consultant by Benson Space Co., a Poway-based, California upstart founded by rocket entrepreneur Jim Benson. In exchange for serving as a "test passenger" on the company's first scheduled flight for paying customers, sometime in 2008, Emmett will provide feedback during the testing phase of the project.

Submission + - Senate introduces strong privacy bill

Submitted by

amigoro

on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @09:58AM

amigoro writes: "US Senators yesterday introduced a bill that better protects the privacy of citizens' personal information in the face of data security breaches across the country. Key features of the bipartisan legislation include increasing criminal penalties for identity theft involving electronic personal data and making it a crime to intentionally or willfully conceal a security breach involving personal data, giving individuals access to, and the opportunity to correct, any personal information held by commercial data brokers, requiring entities that maintain personal data to establish internal policies that protect the personal data of Americans, requiring entities that maintain personal data to give notice to individuals and law enforcement when they experience a breach involving sensitive personal data and requiring the government to establish rules protecting privacy and security when it uses information from commercial data brokers, to conduct audits of government contracts with data brokers and impose penalties on government contractors that fail to meet data privacy and security requirements."

Submission + - DVD Jon challenges Steve Jobs on DRM

Submitted by viking80 on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @08:55AM

viking80 writes: Steve Jobs wrote an article "Thoughts on Music" discussed here on /. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/ 2014217

Steve blames the music industry for DRM, and claims that Apple would love to sell DRM free music. This is of course the exact opposite of the truth accroding to DVD John (Lech Johansen).

DVD John challenges Steve: "Action speaks louder than words"

Read Johansens blog here: [ So sue me ] /http://nanocrew.net/

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