Information Policy: The Net closes in on internet piracy
Seven million downloaders face being branded criminals in new government drive.
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Online perfume shopping :: Now Smell This
Online perfume shopping tips for 8/19/2009. …
Night of the Animals: Part Two :: The Clog :: Blog Archive …
Night of the Animals : Part Two. (Catch up with Part One, in which this reporter encounters raccoons not once, not twice, but thrice on the same night — in the third instance, via telephone, when a friend calls to say the neighbors have …
Political Calculations: How to Detect Junk Science
Most often, it depends upon the quality of the science or evidence supporting the action that is being promoted, and the only way to avoid serious disruption to one’s daily life is to develop the ability to determine the difference …
Will the internet fracture into separate systems?
Will the internet speciate? Will it fragment into incompatible subsets
Court Orders Google to Unmask Blogger in Defamation Case | Peter …
Want to call someone a “skank” on the Web while remaining anonymous? Might want to rethink that: Following an order from a New York court, Google has outed a woman who insulted a former model using the company’s Blogger service.
The Health Care Blog: Medical Data in the Internet “cloud” (part 2 …
This is the second of a 3-part series, where we dig a little deeper into the questions of medical data in the Internet “cloud.” In the first part, we reviewed issues of data safety – how to guard against loss of data. …
America's First Internet Addiction Center Opens Near Seattle
Treatment may include tending to goats and chickens.
The Absence of Schoolhouse Knowledge in Education Policy, by Mike …
A person from a conservative think tank led off with a call for standing tough on NLCB-style accountability and for alternatives to the public education system like charter schools and vouchers. She also took a swipe at teachers’ unions …
Radisson computers accessed without permission
The computers were accessed between last November and May. “Working with law enforcement and forensic investigators, we are conducting a thorough review of the potentially affected computer systems and have implemented additional …