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Submission + - UK Voters Want To Vote Online

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InternetVoting

on Saturday April 28, 2007 @06:09PM

InternetVoting writes: "A recent research survey by ntl:Telewest Business found that nearly half of the respondents would be more likely to vote online. This year the UK government has authorized 13 local election pilots including Internet voting. ntl:Telewest Business estimates 10 million UK households have broadband and 4,789 local libraries offer public access. In the US political parties are beginning to test the Internet voting waters with the Michigan Democratic Party to offer Internet voting in their 2008 Presidential Caucus."

Submission + - Hawking, Lording it up..

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Quietly_Confident

on Saturday April 28, 2007 @06:06PM

Quietly_Confident writes: "A petition on the official UK government 'Number 10 Downing Street' web site is inviting British citizens or residents to impetrate the conference of a life peerage on Prof. Stephen Hawking. The petition suggests that; "Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds this country has and has had, who should have been Knighted a decade ago should actually be conferred a peerage [Lord Hawking]".

A life peerage would entitle Prof. Hawking to sit in the House of Lords should he wish to. With recent honours for cash scandals, it would be a breath of fresh air if a truly Great and deserving Britton was honoured appropriately, possibly in the Prime Minster's Resignation Honours List."

Submission + - Utah Rethinking Anti-Keyword Advertising Law

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Eric Goldman

on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:46PM

Eric Goldman writes: "Slashdot previously reported on Utah's recent law banning trademark-triggered keyword advertising. This week, a group of technology executives met with Utah legislators to discuss the law, and it looks like the legislature is rethinking its position. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, "Legislative leaders are looking to tweak a troublesome trademark protection program rather than defend it in court, after an unprecedented meeting with Internet power brokers who would prefer the new registry be scrapped.""

Submission + - Forensic Tool for Macs

Submitted by Zygote on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:05PM

Zygote writes: http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?m ain_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=195 "MacLockPick(TM) is a valuable tool for law enforcement professionals to perform live forensics on Mac OS X systems. The solution is based on a USB Flash drive that can be inserted into a suspect's Mac OS X computer that is running (or sleeping). Once the software is run it will extract data from the Apple Keychain and system settings in order to provide the examiner fast access to the suspect's critical information with as little interaction or trace as possible."

Submission + - VMware is going public

Submitted by enki700 on Friday April 27, 2007 @02:08AM

enki700 writes: VMware "today announced that VMware has filed a Form S-1 Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the initial public offering ("IPO") of Class A Common Stock of VMware." http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/S1.htm l

Submission + - MIT Dean of Admissions Resigns Over Faked Resume

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theodp

on Friday April 27, 2007 @01:13AM

theodp writes: "Marilee Jones, who crusaded against the pressure on students to build resumes for elite colleges, resigned as dean of admissions at MIT after acknowledging she had faked her own academic credentials. Despite Jones' claims of having degrees from Union College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Albany Medical College, an MIT inquiry did not find that Jones had any undergraduate or graduate degree."

Submission + - Best popular science books named

Submitted by solitas on Thursday April 26, 2007 @10:31PM

solitas writes: A BBC story lists the choices for the Royal Society's six 'Best Popular Science Books' awards.

One of the titles is called "Homo britannicus" — and so I figured I'd take the story to Slashdot where hopefully one of it's learned members could explain to me why an Elton John biography should make a science book list?

Submission + - Student arrested for writing essay

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mcgrew

on Thursday April 26, 2007 @08:40AM

mcgrew writes: "The Chicago Tribune reports that an eighteen year old straight A Cary-Grove High School student was arrested for writing a "disturbing" essay. From the Trib:

Allen Lee, an 18-year-old straight-A student at Cary-Grove High School, was arrested Tuesday near his home and charged with disorderly conduct for an essay police described as violently disturbing but not directed toward any specific person or location.
So much for freedom of speech in the US."

Submission + - Is America going fascist?

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Random BedHead Ed

on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @12:36PM

Random BedHead Ed writes: "The Guardian this week has a call to arms, examining the ten steps to fascism and proposing that America is quietly taking virtually all of them. It's not as much of a partisan concern as you might think: many conservative groups have joined forces under a new organization called the American Freedom Agenda, which along with the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights has been fighting to put pressure on the federal government to pull the country away from what they see as a slippery slope. From the article: "As Americans turn away quite leisurely, keeping tuned to internet shopping and American Idol, the foundations of democracy are being fatally corroded. Something has changed profoundly that weakens us unprecedentedly: our democratic traditions, independent judiciary and free press do their work today in a context in which we are "at war" in a "long war" — a war without end, on a battlefield described as the globe, in a context that gives the president — without US citizens realising it yet — the power over US citizens of freedom or long solitary incarceration, on his say-so alone.""

Submission + - Help Make Firefox on MAc Not Suck

Submitted by

bluephone

on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @12:54AM

bluephone writes: "Colin Barret, one of the new Mac geniuses, an Adium dev also, has posted this entry on his blog offering an open call to all the Firefox on Mac users asking them, 'What sucks about Firefox on the Mac?' He says he already knows about and is trying to solve things like 'Native Form Widgets (currently scheduled for Firefox 3), Keychain Integration, Firefox should have a Unified toolbar (not completely hopeless, it turns out), Performance...', but he wants to hear what else Mac users want from Firefox. So please, if you're a user of Macs and the interwebs, then RTFA, unclog your tubes, and send him your ideas."

Submission + - Busting the MythBusters' Yawn Experiment

Submitted by

markmcb

on Sunday April 22, 2007 @09:16PM

markmcb writes: "Most everyone knows and loves the MythBusters, two guys who attempt to set the story straight on so many things people just take for granted. Well, everyone except Brandon Hansen, who has offered them a taste of their own medicine as he busts the MythBusters' improper use of statistics in their experiment to show yawning is contagious. While the article maintains it is still possible yawns are contagious, the author makes it clear that he's not giving the MythBusters any credit for proving such a claim, 'not with a correlation coefficient of .045835.'"

Feed Thieves swiping HOV exemption stickers from hybrids (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Sunday April 22, 2007 @02:52AM

Filed under: Transportation

For those of you enjoying the free-flowing high-occupancy vehicle lane on the Capitol Expressway (in your HOV-exempt hybrid, no less), stay sharp, as it looks like those oh-so-valuable stickers that reside on your ride appear as gold to thieves. Apparently, "two to three dozen" victims per month are surfacing in California, where the now-extinct stickers are presumably fetching a pretty penny on the underground markets. The labels -- which were handed out to some 85,000 hybrid owners in years past to give them the same speedy privileges are carpoolers -- are no longer being administered by the DMV, which means that those that were able to take advantage are now targets. Interestingly, hybrid vehicles that are up for sale in the area are fetching "nearly $4,000 more" than comparative models so long as they come with the coveted sticker pre-installed. Notably, the DMV claims that the "carpool stickers are treated chemically so they crumble apart if tampered with," but that wee tidbit isn't likely to slow down a desperate bandit.

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Comment Re:Initial image by agreed experts, not RIAA (Score 3, Insightful) 276

by jakosc on Sunday April 22, 2007 @12:50AM (#18829479) Attached to: Safeguards For RIAA Hard Drive Inspection

I think 1 and 2 are consistent, it's just the numbering in the document isn't the order of events.

How I read it, it's basically:

1) Plaintiff, don't worry, you'll get access to the drive by March 21
2-3) Defendent, don't worry, here's how we'll do it---first, you get to delete your private files

IANAL, but that's how I read it. The summary's a bit confusing, and seems to suggest that #1 in the document has to occur before #2, which really doesn't make sense, as the GP points out.

Feed Scientist Warns Marathon Runners: Water Won't Help You Keep Your Cool (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Saturday April 21, 2007 @09:12PM

A research team led by the University of Exeter has found that fluid intake does not affect body temperature in runners. Therefore, runners in today's London Marathon will not improve their performance by drinking more water.

Submission + - Safeguards Set for RIAA Hard Drive Inspection

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Saturday April 21, 2007 @04:28PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "In SONY v. Arellanes, an RIAA case in Sherman, Texas, the Court entered a protective order (pdf), which spells out the following procedure for the RIAA's examination of the defendant's hard drive: (1) RIAA imaging specialist makes mirror image of hard drive; (2) mutually acceptable computer forensics expert makes make 2 verified bit images, and creates an MD5 or equivalent hash code; (3) one mirror image is held in escrow by the expert, the other given to defendant's lawyer for a 'privilege review'; (4) defendant's lawyer provides plaintiffs' lawyer with a "privilege log" (list of privileged files); (5) after privilege questions are resolved, the escrowed image — with privileged files deleted — will be turned over to RIAA lawyers, to be held for 'lawyers' eyes only'. The order differs from the earlier order (pdf) entered in the case, in that it (a) permits the RIAA's own imaging person to make the initial mirror image and (b) spells out the details of the method for safeguarding privilege and privacy."

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