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The CALM Act finally puts the muzzle on loud TV commercials
Imagine this scenario: you're Senior Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson and you're settling in to watch some Golden Girls reruns. Maybe, like Lee, you've cracked open a bag of habanero pork rinds and a can of...US cyber-weapons exempt from "human judgment" requirement
HAL is convinced this new approach can work really, really well. As custom government malware becomes an increasingly common international weapon with real-world effects—breaking a centrifuge, shutting down a power grid, scrambling control..."Six strikes" copyright enforcement postponed until 2013
The Center for Copyright Information, which will be punishing Internet copyright infringers by administering a "six strikes" warning system, was scheduled to start operations before the end of this year. But today CCI announced that...Samsung faces two-front patent war as Ericsson files suit in Texas
Samsung is already embroiled in a worldwide patent fight with Apple, but the company will now face a patent attack from another direction. Swedish telecom giant Ericsson sued Samsung today, saying the Korean company...Long Island cops probe how secret information became NYC confetti
On Monday, Long Island police officials told reporters they would investigate how internal police files ended up being used as confetti for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. Some strips were...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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