Archive for the ‘Link-soup’ Category
links for 2008-09-16
links for 2008-09-15
links for 2008-09-14
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Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world
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A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
links for 2008-09-13
links for 2008-09-12
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They looked at me like I was an idiot for getting involved. I don't know how to explain that either, but I believe it in my core. I didn’t go to protest, or for any other reason but for the right to be there. And the fact that nobody seemed to “get it” made it all the more important. After thinking about it more, that's the scariest thing to me now: You're government can arrest you for walking down the street, and nobody seems to care.
links for 2008-09-11
links for 2008-09-10
links for 2008-09-09
links for 2008-09-08
links for 2008-09-05
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when not shutting down media outlets or having web masters murdered in jail, Putin saves journalists from tigers
links for 2008-09-04
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Did you know that anarchists killed several police officers during the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle? No, you don't know that, because it never happened.
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Title is misleading
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I've been using it since yesterday and I'm not particularly impressed thus far.
links for 2008-09-03
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But perhaps the most startling call for forces comes from Blackwater, the controversial prviate security contractor. The firm — which famously patrolled New Orleans after Katrina — is "compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav," according to an e-mail obtained by R.J. Hillhouse.
links for 2008-09-02
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links for 2008-08-27
links for 2008-08-25
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Economist article on president of Liberia
