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PIRATE Act dons eye patch, swash­buck­les back into Sen­ate [Digg]

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 02:45 PM CST

The PIRATE Act is back, and its back­ers hope to get the gov­ern­ment involved in fil­ing civil suits against copy­right infringers.

Steroid bust shows Feds can still get at “pri­vate” and “secure” e-mail [Digg]

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 12:50 PM CST

Fed­eral agents were able to get access to an alleged steroid dealer’s e-mail, despite the fact that his account was with the secure Hush­mail ser­vice. Chalk this one up to ordi­nary impatience.

“Set the Data Free” [Digg]

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 12:46 PM CST

Here’s as very good point…

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Posted: 08 Nov 2007 08:31 AM CST

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Posted: 08 Nov 2007 08:31 AM CST

Hush­mail Offers Feds a Peek at Users’ Data [Digg]

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 08:04 AM CST

We all know that it’s not a bril­liant idea to store your mail on Yahoo’s servers if you’re con­cerned about the gov­ern­ment peek­ing at the data. Hush­mail, how­ever, has built a rep­u­ta­tion on being a provider for encrypted web-based email. On their web­site, they say “not even a Hush­mail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted e-mail

via www.news.com.au

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 08:00 AM CST

could care less

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 08:00 AM CST

could care less

Lion cuties line up for crown | The Daily Tele­graph

Posted: 08 Nov 2007 07:59 AM CST

Lion cuties line up for crown | The Daily Telegraph

Bye Bye Vinyl Records —-Here Comes the Vinyl CD [Digg]

Posted: 07 Nov 2007 07:12 PM CST

Place a VinylD­isc on your turntable, drop the nee­dle at the start of the track, and you’ll hear up to 3.5 min­utes of music at 33 RPM. The first Vinyl CD’s have been released and are start­ing to get pop­u­lar. This will be inter­est­ing to see if DJ’s pick up some of these bad boys.

Social Net­works Mania [Digg]

Posted: 07 Nov 2007 02:22 PM CST

In the light of all the debate between face­book and Google’s openso­cial catch­ing the head­lines almost every­where, I thought that it might be a good idea to make light of the whole thing and have a few light moments. This is a vision of what can hap­pen if social net­works become really open and all com­pa­nies pounce on it.

How to Learn (But Not Mas­ter) Any Lan­guage in 1 Hour [Digg]

Posted: 07 Nov 2007 09:53 AM CST

Secrets Unlocked to learn­ing new languages

Pic­tures: A 30-Year His­tory of Video Games [Digg]

Posted: 06 Nov 2007 07:00 PM CST

After decades of painstak­ingly col­lect­ing video games and con­soles, I’ve finally decided to part with my entire col­lec­tion. From Atari to PlaySta­tion 2, there’s some­thing for every­body in this col­lec­tion. Even the unbe­liev­ably rare games are included.