The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSAIt's not surprising that an expert hired by EFF should produce an analysis that supports the group's case against AT&T. But last week's public court filing of a redacted statement by J. Scott Marcus is still worth reading for the obvious expertise of its author, and the cunning insights he draws from the AT&T spy documents.
An internet pioneer and former FCC advisor who held a Top Secret security clearance, Marcus applies a Sherlock Holmes level of reasoning to his dissection of ... (more)
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Telecom bill would leave U.S. lagging behind rest of world"The telecom and cable duopoly will find its respective monopolies enshrined in the law, with no obligation to play fairly with new entrants to the market (there can't be any under Stevens' bill), no requirement to carry traffic for "freeloaders" like YouTube, iTunes, Amazon, Real Networks or MSN, and no fear of future entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin or Craig McCaw horning in on the action."
The new telecommunications bill before Sen. Ted Stevens' Senate Commerce... (more) Take a moment to help save the internet: Savetheinternet.com |
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Arming the HeavensThree terrible dangers face the world.
The first, global warming, has received much attention, if only relatively modest political action so far.
The second threat is the very real and increasing dangers of nuclear proliferation, and the dangers of terrorists acquiring nuclear materials and weapons. The collapse of the May 2005 non-proliferation talks, mostly due to U.S. intransigence, is a tragedy. And, despite the importance of nuclear proliferation, I doubt if on... (more)
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Governments to decide future of netIn an historic shift of power, international governments will this week argue that they should take the lead role in "public policy" issues on the Net - effectively deciding the future course of much of the internet.
The request will come in an official communique from the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of internet overseeing organisation ICANN tomorrow. It forms part of an "enhanced co-operation" mechanism agreed in theory at the World Summit in Tunis last November.
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Stealth Radar System Sees Through Trees And Walls UndetectedOhio State engineers have invented a radar system that is virtually undetectable because its signal resembles random noise. The radar could have applications in law enforcement, the military and disaster rescue.
Eric Walton, senior research scientist in Ohio State's ElectroScience Laboratory, said that with further development the technology could even be used for medical imaging. He explained why using random noise makes the radar system invisible.
"Almost all radi... (more)
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Is it a bird? Is it a spaceship? No, it's a secret US spy plane· Sightings of flying object over Britain worried MoD
· Questions threatened to strain relations with US
It is the stuff of internet conspiracy theorists' dreams. A top secret, hypersonic, cold war spy plane that was allegedly flown by the Americans in UK airspace without the government's permission.
Publicly, the UK government played down newspaper stories about people who reported seeing UFO-like phenomena. But documents released under the Fre... (more)
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Pensioner's UFO plans scupperedA PENSIONER went to the Appeal Court to have his design recognised - for a flying saucer.
Bolton inventor Joseph Thompson, 83, believes his idea for a unique flying device challenges the accepted laws of physics and could revolutionise the world's travel industry.
But experts at the Patents, Designs and Trademarks have refused Mr Thompson a patent over the last three years so yesterday a judge heard his bid to appeal against the decision.
Mr Thompson ... (more)
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Reversal of transgenic goat decision opens the door for 'pharming' in Europe22/06/2006 - The world’s first drug made from a genetically engineered goat has been given the thumbs up in Europe after being initially rejected in February. The decision has reopened the door for "pharming," where transgenic animals or plants are used to make drugs.
The European Medicines Agency's (EMEA's) review process was the first regulatory examination of a transgenically produced therapeutic protein anywhere in the world, representing the first real sign that the ma... (more)
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UBC Engineers Create Vehicle that Travels from Vancouver to Halifax on a Gallon of GasThe futuristic-looking, single-occupancy vehicle won top prize at a recent international competition, marking the UBC team’s fourth win in as many years.
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Supermileage Competition took place June 9 in Marshall, Michigan. Forty teams from Canada, the U.S. and India competed in designing and building the most fuel-efficient vehicle.
“We achieved this level of efficiency by optimizing many aspects of the vehicle des... (more)
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Test Tube Meat Nears Dinner TableWhat if the next burger you ate was created in a warm, nutrient-enriched soup swirling within a bioreactor?
Edible, lab-grown ground chuck that smells and tastes just like the real thing might take a place next to Quorn at supermarkets in just a few years, thanks to some determined meat researchers. Scientists routinely grow small quantities of muscle cells in petri dishes for experiments, but now for the first time a concentrated effort is under way to mass-produce meat in this m... (more)
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No sex please, robot, just clean the floorTHE race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a “code of ethics” for machines as they become more and more sophisticated.
Although the nightmare vision of a Terminator world controlled by machines may seem fanciful, scientists believe the boundaries for human-robot interaction must be set now — before super-intelligent robots develop beyond our control.
“There are two l... (more)
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History Of 'New Energy' Invention Suppression CasesThis is the third version of my compilation of specific energy suppression cases. This time I decided to get serious.
I thoroughly reviewed my own files and a few web sites pertaining to energy suppression. Deleted were some cases that didn't appear to be authentic suppression. I also incorporated some thoughtful comments that had been emailed to me this last week.
About three days ago, I received an amazingly timely phone call from Byron Wine in Virginia. For mor... (more)
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World's agricultural legacy gets a safe home: Vault on Arctic isle would protect seedsWASHINGTON - The high-security vault, almost half the length of a football field, will be carved into a mountain on a remote island above the Arctic Circle. If the looming fences, motion detectors and steel airlock doors are not disincentive enough for anyone hoping to breach the facility's concrete interior, the polar bears roaming outside should help.
The more than 100 nations that have collectively endorsed the vault's construction say it will be the most secure facility of its... (more)
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Report fuels spy plane theoriesThe UK knows more than it is saying about top secret American aircraft projects, recently declassified documents reveal.
Deep inside a previously secret Ministry of Defence report are a few pages which will reignite one of the biggest internet conspiracy questions - Is the US Air Force building secret spy planes which can cross the sky at 3,000mph?
The plane, which is often referred to as Aurora, is supposed to be a follow on from the U2 spy plane and the 2,000mph S... (more)
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RIAA sues Youtube usersIt seems our friends over at the RIAA just cannot get enough. The latest BS to emerge from there are cease-and-desist letters to Youtube users who have dared to put up videos of things such as themselves dancing to music they haven’t licensed.
Clearly an insanity plea no longer covers the RIAA’s stupidity. From trying to orchestrate illegal takedowns in other countries a la The Pirate Bay to sending cease-and-desist letters to some poor user who has just recorded himse... (more)
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Making yourself invisible: could it leap from fiction to fact?Whether we're inspired by the The Invisible Man or the more recent Harry Potter series, the ability to vanish at will is something that most of us would love to possess. Not only could we duck out of embarrassing situations, but we could spy on our friends and enemies - or even sit in on conversations between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Not to mention the nefarious uses to which an invisibility cloak could be put, such as shoplifting and robbing banks.
Until now, such ideas were ... (more)
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BBC to Brits: Need a license to watch us online, tooThe United Kingdom's television-licensing authority has responded to criticism from Silicon.com readers over its warning that people watching online BBC broadcasts on a PC face stiff fines if they don't have a TV license.
TV Licensing, or TVL, issued the warning last week on the eve of the World Cup finals in Germany, which the BBC is broadcasting live online as well as on TV.
That provoked a furious response from many Silicon.com readers. "If the BBC chooses to bro... (more)
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Google's not-so-very-secret weaponOn the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is as big as two football fields, with twin cooling towers protruding four stories into the sky.
The towers, looming like an information-age nuclear plant, mark the site of what may soon be one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, helping to supply the ever-greater horsepower needed t... (more)
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Terror suspects subjected to 'torture' lawyersA Brampton, Ontario justice of the peace has imposed a publication ban on the proceedings against 17 terror suspects, just hours after lawyers for the suspects said their clients endured "cruel and unusual punishment" behind bars which amounted to "torture."
"That torture includes being kept in a room that's lit 24 hours a day, being woken up every half-hour, being beaten by the guards, on and on and on," said lawyer Rocco Galati outside the court.
Lawyers for the s... (more)
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Email, mobile phone text message tax idea floated by European Parliament member sparks online 'furor' A 'furor' has broken out in Europe after a European Parliament member suggested that emails and mobil phone text messages could be taxed, according to a story set for Monday's edition of The New York Times RAW STORY has learned.
Excerpts from the article written by Thomas Crampton:
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A French member of the European Parliament, Alain Lamassoure, recently uttered the dreaded T-word -- taxes -- in connection with e-mail and mobile phone text messages, and in ... (more)
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America's robot army: Already there are killing machines operating by remote control. Soon the machines will be able to kill on their own initiative. A new warfare is on its way.War is about to change, in terrifying ways. America's next wars, the ones the Pentagon is now planning, will be nothing like the conflicts that have gone before them.
In just a few years, US forces will be able to deal out death, not at the squeeze of a trigger or even the push of a button, but with no human intervention whatsoever. Many fighting soldiers - those GIs in tin hats who are dying two a day in Iraq - will be replaced by machines backed up by surveillance technology so ... (more) Related:
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Russia, China Warn of Space Arms RaceRussia and China on The United Nations Conference on Disarmament Thursday warned that space-based weapons would pose as great a threat as weapons of mass destruction, and called for global negotiations to stop their deployment, the Scotsman internet daily reported.
Diplomats said the calls from the two powers were mainly targeted at the United States, expected by some to leave open the option of putting weaponry in orbit when it issues a new space policy soon.
The... (more)
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House rejects Net neutrality rulesThe U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.
By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broad... (more)
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Hearts could be grown in 10 yearsORGANS grown inside the body could replace transplants in just 10 years after an Australian breakthrough.
Researchers yesterday revealed they had successfully grown heart tissue that beats spontaneously - inside a rat. They said the development was the first step to growing entire organs to replace diseased and injured body parts, using a patients' own cells to minimise rejection.
The regenerative process has also been used to develop insulin-producing pancreas tiss... (more)
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