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Submission + - The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by Nerdfest on Monday August 12, 2013 @01:49PM

Nerdfest writes: Bruce Schenier writes: 'Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying their users. Some, as we've learned, fight and lose. Others cooperate, either out of patriotism or because they believe it's easier that way.

I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight."

Comment Re:Lol apple (Score 1) 171

by ScotterMonk on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @09:38PM (#33146138) Attached to: Two Unpatched Flaws Show Up In Apple iOS

This article, admittedly using different measurement, says Android is now #1: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/08/04/npd-group-android-top-selling-smartphone-platform-in-u-s-for-q2/ I think it is funny how we can focus on a certain metric to get whatever results we want :)

First Membrane Controlled By Light Developed 33

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 01, 2010 @02:54PM from the my-eyelid-aside dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt: "A new membrane developed at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics blocks gas from flowing through it when one color of light is shined on its surface, and permits gas to flow through when another color of light is used. It is the first time that scientists have developed a membrane that can be controlled in this way by light."

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