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Vietnam bloggers arrested over China shirt protestHANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese police have arrested two bloggers and a journalist for their involvement in a plan to print T-shirts opposing China's investment in a bauxite mining project and its claims over disputed islands, sources said.
Wugnet Saturday, September 05, 2009Gateway LT3103uThough speed and battery life aren't its forte, the Gateway LT3103u is competitively priced and bundles a large screen and full size keyboard.
PC Magazine Saturday, September 05, 2009Build It: Back to School DesktopWhy pay loads of money for a ready-made system, when you can build your own desktop PC to bring back to school? We show you how.
Wugnet Saturday, September 05, 2009Digiscribe CEO Mitch Taube is a Featured Panelist for the Westchester County AssociationFounder of Document
management Company Offers Ways to Boost the Bottom Line - - Elmsford, NY – September 5, 2009. Mitch Taube, President of Digiscribe International, is a featured panelist for the We...
Webwire Saturday, September 05, 2009iPod Fee Proposed For Canadainnocent_white_lamb writes "The Canadian Private Copying Collective is pushing for the implementation of an iPod fee in Canada to compensate them for 'losses' when people copy music to their digital music players. They have collected a fee from every CDR sold in Canada since 1997 and now want to extend that to digital music players. From the article: 'Some have argued that once they buy a CD they shouldn't have to pay again and again to listen to those songs — which they already purchased — on a personal compilation CD or on their MP3 player. But for people like Milman and Basskin, it's about recognizing the value of those works. "There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music," Milman said.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Saturday, September 05, 2009Why Anonymized Data Isn'tArs has a review of recent research, and a summary of the history, in the field of reidentification — identifying people from anonymized data. Paul Ohm's recent paper is an elaboration of what Ohm terms a central reality of data collection: "Data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both." "...in 2000, [researcher Latanya Sweeney] showed that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified using only three bits of information: ZIP code, birthdate, and sex. ... For almost every person on earth, there is at least one fact about them stored in a computer database that an adversary could use to blackmail, discriminate against, harass, or steal the identity of him or her. I mean more than mere embarrassment or inconvenience; I mean legally cognizable harm. ... Reidentification science disrupts the privacy policy landscape by undermining the faith that we have placed in anonymization."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Saturday, September 05, 2009Exoskeletons For Rent In Japandestinyland writes "Cyberdyne has started renting their exoskeleton body suits in Japan. The mind-controlled wearable machine increases strength and endurance, and rents for $2,300 a month. (Sensors on the skin detect traces of nerve signals from the brain, synchronizing the power suit's movements with the user's own limbs.) New video shows the suits in use on the streets of Tokyo, and the concept may be catching on. DARPA now has a program called Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation 'to develop devices and machines that will increase the speed, strength and endurance of soldiers in combat environments.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot Saturday, September 05, 2009gScreen Promises Dual-Screen NotebookgScreen, a little known American company, has announced that it will ship a laptop with dual 15.4-inch widescreens, called the Spacebook.
Wugnet Saturday, September 05, 2009Psystar Sues Apple Over Snow LeopardPsystar has again filed suit against Apple, this time accusing the Cupertino-based company of anticompetitive behavior related to its newly released Snow Leopard OS.
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