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Comment Re:Who knew? (Score 1) 835

by bennett000 (#36550532) Attached to: LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump

You don't have a problem with continuing a process that allows a whole sub-culture of people to be treated like slaves, paid almost nothing, worked in unsafe environments, and have no representation because you don't want to pay a buck fifty more for you produce?...what a disgusting position.

So you're not writing this on a computer then, manufactured in an overseas factory, produced by cheap labour and unsafe environments? I assume also that all the garments you wear were all fabricated by people paid living wages.... I'm well aware of the problem.

I think you'd have been more in comfortable in the 1800's in the south.

No I wouldn't, I never said I supported illegal-migrant work, I just said that the US is dependent upon it, I never said I condoned it, I have a hard time condoning some Western working conditions present day.
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Submission + - US House approves patent reform bill (computerworld.com.au) 2

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angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a bill that would overhaul the U.S. patent system and allow for a new review of patents after they are approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The America Invents Act (PDF) would also allow the USPTO's director to set the fees for patents, with the aim of giving the agency enough money to process a long backlog of patent applications. The bill would also change who is awarded a patent from the first person to create a new invention to the first person to file for a patent. Most other countries award patents to the first person to file."

Submission + - LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump (zeropaid.com) 1

Submitted by Dangerous_Minds
Dangerous_Minds writes: LulzSec has been vowing to expose government secrets for the last few days. Now they have delivered. According to ZeroPaid, LulzSec has posted secret documents about the Arizona Law Enforcement. The release has been posted to file-sharing website ThePirateBay. LulzSec says the release is because they are "against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police
state that is Arizona".
Media

Submission + - Open News Agenda Challenges Major Press Agencies (zapaday.com)

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HavanaF
HavanaF writes: "Given that news is, somehow, a public good and a lot of news is based on planned events, it might be considered an oddity that news agendas — when will Michelle visit South Africa? — are, still, behind the gilded closed doors of press agencies like AP, AFP and Reuters. Any subscription to 'planned news' will set you down a few hundred dollars per month (prices not listed anywhere). Amsterdam based Zapaday.com, now in alpha, says to take on press agencies with a free and open news agenda. Zapaday published a video about their ambition to become the "most comprehensive source of information about the future" and a free iPhone app with a week of future news headlines."
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Submission + - An analysis of OS X security problems.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: OS X has been in the news a lot lately as malware is increasingly becoming an issue for the platform. This article gives an analysis of the security problems OS X has had from the start, debunking several myths and explaining why users have always been at risk. An interesting read, and very relevant with Lion on the horizon.

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