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We Can't Afford Even One E-Voting Morris Worm

Over at CNet, Declan McCullagh has an interview with probably the most prominent computer scientist who supports paperless e-voting, Michael Shamos. In a wide-ranging discussion, Shamos acknowledges...

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What Sun Should Be Doing With MySQL

Earlier this year, Sun scooped up MySQL for a cool $1 billion. However, while Sun has been somewhat friendly towards open source software, there were plenty of concerns about what the company...

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Content Is Advertising... On TV

Continuing my series of posts on how all content is advertising and all advertising is content, there was an interesting story last week about how a top ad agency is teaming up with NBC to create TV...

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Bill Gates Claims Open Source Means Nobody Can Improve Software

Wired is running an interesting article about Bill Gates' thoughts on the pharmaceutical industry, which he's increasingly focused on as he transitions out of Microsoft and into his foundation. He...

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As Expected, Court Says Customs Can Search Your Laptop

As was widely expected, an appeals court has ruled that customs agents have every right to search the content of your laptop, reversing the only court case that had ruled otherwise (a few others had...

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Patriots Still Want 19-0 Trademark; So They Can Pretend They Had A Perfect Season

Right before the Super Bowl this year, we noted that the New England Patriots had filed for a trademark on "19 - 0" to be used in merchandise commemorating what the team believed would be the...

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GPS Will Now Tell You You're In A 'Bad' Neighborhood

While various GPS systems are competing to provide better, more interesting or more detailed "points of interest," it appears that Honda is going even further. Its new GPS system will also warn...

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Microsoft's Final 'Up Yours' To Those Who Bought Into Its DRM Story

Remember a few years back when Microsoft launched a new type of DRM under the name "PlaysForSure"? The idea was to create a standard DRM that a bunch of different online music download stores could...

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Forbes Paints JPEG Patent Holder As A Victim

You may recall the highly questionable "JPEG patent" that was used to threaten the Troll Tracker a few months ago. It's a patent that's been in dispute for quite some time, and has been used by its...

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No, Getting Users To Translate Facebook Into Other Languages Isn't Exploitation

A few people have sent in the recent story about how Facebook has relied on volunteer users to translate the site into other languages. That story has resulted in something of a debate from users...

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