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Submission + - Support the fight against DRM! (defectivebydesign.org)

Submitted by byolinux on Friday December 14, 2007 @04:18PM

byolinux writes: In his 2007 charitable giving guide, Cory Doctorow writes at BoingBoing "It's wonderful to see a campaigning group based on fighting DRM. Defective by Design has pulled off a number of audacious and clever actions that have raised public awareness of DRM. The fight starts here."

Submission + - Google develops Wikipedia rival (news.com)

Submitted by

eswarjj

on Friday December 14, 2007 @04:14PM

eswarjj writes: "Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the encyclopedia the "knol project," a knol being a "unit of knowledge," according to a blog post by Google engineering vice president Udi Manber. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html"

Submission + - No passport for Britons refusing mass-surveillance

Submitted by

UpnAtom

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @08:29AM

UpnAtom writes: "From the And you thought Sweden was bad dept:

People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they've claimed and the records of their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to will be denied passports from March 26th.

The Blair Govt has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the everyday lives of innocent Britons.

Britons were already the most spied upon nation in Western Europe. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British govt to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."

Submission + - Political preferences and free software

Submitted by

00_NOP

on Saturday March 10, 2007 @08:00AM

00_NOP writes: "HateMyTory is the world's first political rating site and occasionally gets blasted or promoted by British bloggers on either side of the political spectrum. But here's something even more intriguing ... when the right come visiting they hate the site but they are disproportionally likely to be users of free software, whether that is just Firefox on top of their Windows box, or all the way with some Linux distro. But when the left rally to the cause they are more likely than not to be proprietary software users, albeit with a big bias towards Apple. If Microsoft's defenders think free software is the road to socialism, why don't the left seem to agree? As a leftie, and a free software advocate, I find this pretty puzzling."

Submission + - FBI abused Patriot act powers

Submitted by devnulljapan on Saturday March 10, 2007 @02:45AM

devnulljapan writes: Well, we all knew this, but here's the scoop from the Guardian and the BBC and CNN even Faux News is covering it, albeit with a spin that it's all Robert Mueller's fault:
The FBI abused its powers under the PATRIOT act to obtain information about US citizens, according to a justice department report published yesterday. The Justice department's inspector-general, Glenn Fine, said the FBI had been illegally using its powers in some cases, was under-reporting the frequency with which it forced firms to hand over customer information, and obtained phone records other than for emergencies.
Why is this not front page news in the US? If only the acronym was ANNA-NICOLE-SMITH...

Feed Some Sectors in Europe Face a Labor Shortage (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Saturday March 10, 2007 @02:12AM

The most dynamic, future-oriented industries are having trouble finding qualified employees.

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