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Comment ISPs worry email may be outlawed under these bills (Score 1) 857

by DesgarTadema (#26940709) Attached to: Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs
From Cnet:

For Internet firms, the quandary is this: The mere provision of e-mail, electronic storage, cloud-computing services, and social-networking sites could be viewed as an act that "facilitates access to" illegal content, especially if the provider knows that some users in the past have been less than law-abiding. (And the threat of arrest, indictment, and imprisonment makes them unwilling to hope prosecutors interpret the language conservatively.)
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Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter 261

Posted by kdawson from the techno-bunny dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "On the 200th anniversary of his birth, President Abraham Lincoln's popular image as a log-splitting bumpkin is being re-assessed as historians have discovered that Lincoln had an avid interest in cutting-edge technology and its applications. During the war, Lincoln haunted the telegraph office (which provided the instant-messaging of its day) for the latest news from the front; he encouraged weapons development and even tested some new rifles himself on the White House lawn; and he is the only US president to hold a patent (No. 6469, granted May 22, 1849). It was for a device to lift riverboats over shoals. 'He not only created his own invention but had ideas for other inventions, such as an agricultural steam plow and a naval steam ram, [and] was fascinated by patent cases as an attorney and also by new innovations during the Civil War,' says Jason Emerson, author of Lincoln the Inventor. But Lincoln's greatest contribution to the war effort was his use of the telegraph. When Lincoln took office the White House had no telegraph connection. Lincoln 'developed the modern electronic leadership model, says Tom Wheeler, author of Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph To Win the Civil War. At a time when electricity was a vague scientific concept and sending signals through wires was 'mind boggling,' Lincoln was fascinated by the telegraph and developed it into a political and military tool that allowed him to project himself to the front to monitor and track what was going on. 'If he were alive today, we'd call him an early adopter,' says Wheeler."

Comment Re:god i love slashdot... (Score 1) 407

by DesgarTadema (#26680373) Attached to: Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful

thank god i decided to hit /. to see if anyone else was getting this, i figured if it was google wide, someone here would post it. saved me lots of scanning and wondering wtf is wrong with my pc.

That's what I should have done in the first place, but I got paranoid (this is what happens when your computer gets bombed with a backdoor virus).

I was doing a search on "virtual drives" when I noticed it. After trying a couple more searches that had the same flagging, I closed the browser.

(I'm certain now this was coincidental: my taskbar icon for Norton disappeared and I thought a trojan or whatever got through and mucked up Google. It seems to not be the case. Everything is fine now, but I'm still paranoid nonetheless.)

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