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Submission + - Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Government Access to Encrypted Communic (nytimes.com)

Submitted by loid_void on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @11:33AM

loid_void writes: SAN FRANCISCO â" An elite group of code makers and code breakers is taking American and British intelligence and law enforcement agencies to task in a new paper that evaluates government proposals to maintain special access to encrypted digital communications.

On Tuesday, the group â" 13 of the worldâ(TM)s pre-eminent cryptographers, computer scientists and security specialists â" will release the paper, which concludes there is no viable technical solution that would allow the American and British governments to gain âoeexceptional accessâ to encrypted communications without putting the worldâ(TM)s most confidential data and critical infrastructure in danger.

Submission + - Scientist Finds Beginnings of Morality in Primates

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loid_void

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @11:24PM

loid_void writes: "The New York Times is reporting that: Last year Marc Hauser, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, proposed in his book "Moral Minds" that the brain has a genetically shaped mechanism for acquiring moral rules, a universal moral grammar similar to the neural machinery for learning language. In another recent book, "Primates and Philosophers," the primatologist Frans de Waal defends against philosopher critics his view that the roots of morality can be seen in the social behavior of monkeys and apes."

Submission + - 9 Billion-Year-Old 'Dark Energy' Reported

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loid_void

on Saturday November 18, 2006 @03:18AM

loid_void writes: "From the NYTimes: A group of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that billions of years before this mysterious antigravity overcame cosmic gravity and sent the galaxies scooting apart like muscle cars departing a tollbooth, it was already present in space, affecting the evolution of the cosmos. A team of "dark energy prospectors," who peered back nine billion years with the Hubble and were able to discern the nascent effects of antigravity. The group reported their observations at a news conference yesterday and in a paper to be published in The Astrophysical Journal."

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