The Human Genome Project may end up helping in the fight against spam.
On a related note, a new spam firewall has been developed.
(Thanks, Slashdot)
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AstroTurf Activism
Cut-and-Paste
Propaganda Infiltrates Opinion Pages
By Paul Farhi
Reader, beware! Some of America’s newspapers have become
unwitting conduits for campaign propaganda. Thanks to some nifty Internet technology, the campaigns of President Bush and John F. Kerry are making it easy for their supporters to pass off the campaigns’ talking points as just another concerned citizen’s opinion. Pro-Bush or pro-Kerry letters bearing identical language are flooding letters-to-the-editor columns.
Loose Lips
Actually, in this case, it’s loose disks. It seems some of our nation’s defenders
need a lesson in discretion and security.
Are
P2P networks leaking military secrets?
By John Borland, Staff Writer,
CNET News.com
A new Web log is posting what it purports are pictures, documents
and letters from U.S. soldiers and military bases in Iraq and elsewhere–all of
which the site’s operator claims to have downloaded from peer-to-peer networks such
as Gnutella.
Fair Use
I’m not a fan of government-imposed censorship and I believe that parents should
take a more active role in what their children watch on TV and movies.
Hollywood is trying on multiple
fronts
to eradicate customers’ fair
use rights. One of their targets is parent’s right to control what his children
watch.
Several months ago, a new
DVD player debuted which would permit the user to “automatically
skip sexual
content, graphically violent scenes and language deemed offensive”.
Directors are furious and Hollywood wants these machines off the market. If you’d
like to see ClearPlay-enabled
players, like RCA’s DRC232N back
on the market and protected in the future, please sign the Grassfire
Family Movie Act petition.
Scientific Censorship
Assuming this study has merit, censoring it unconscionable.
Researchers boycott journal
Contributors cry foul play after the publisher refuses to include a controversial article
By Alison McCook
"Researchers slated to contribute to a November issue of an occupational medicine journal have withdrawn their submissions in a boycott stemming from the publication's refusal to include a study in the same issue claiming that IBM employees at semiconductor plants have higher-than-expected cancer death rates."