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Primary School Girl Told To Stop Photographing and Blogging School Meals   |  Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil     Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation  Primary School Girl Told To Stop Photographing and Blogging School Meals  Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM  Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil  Ethiopia Criminalizes VoIP Services  Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie  US Security Services May 'Have Moles Within Microsoft,' Says Researcher  Aussie Telco Lays New Fiber For Microsecond Trading Boost  Hybrid Drives Struggling In Face of SSDs  Online Pharmacy Pioneer Arrested In Florida  Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers  Analyzing Climate Change On Carbon Rich Peat Bogs  New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space  Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers  Why Intel Needs Smartphones More Than They Need Intel     Sen. Rand Paul Introduces TSA Reform Legislation  From the freedom-from-getting-pawed-and-groped department OverTheGeicoE writes "Over a month after Sen. Rand Paul announced his desire to pull the plug on TSA, he has finally released his legislation that he tweets will 'abolish the #TSA & establish a passengers "Bill of Rights."' Although the tweet...   Primary School Girl Told To Stop Photographing and Blogging School Meals  From the food-for-thought department JamieKitson writes "British primary school (elementary to those of you in the U.S.) pupil Martha/'Veg' has been taking photographs of her school dinners and writing about them at her blog Never Seconds since April. The blog has become popular, and...   Intel Dismisses 'x86 Tax', Sees No Future For ARM  From the end-of-the-road department MrSeb writes "In an interview with ExtremeTech, Mike Bell — Intel's new mobile chief, previously of Apple and Palm — has completely dismissed the decades-old theory that x86 is less power efficient than ARM. 'There is nothing in the...   Monsanto May Have To Repay 10 Years of GM Soya Royalties In Brazil  From the bean-counters department scibri writes "Biotech giant Monsanto is one step closer to losing billions of dollars in revenues from its genetically-modified Roundup Ready soya beans, after the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled the company must repay royalties collected over the...   Ethiopia Criminalizes VoIP Services  From the clamping-down-on-0s-and-1s department An anonymous reader writes "The Ethiopian government has passed legislation criminalizing the use of VoIP services like Skype and Google Talk. Anyone using these services within the country now faces up to 15 years in prison. 'Ethiopian...   Joe Cornish To Write and Direct Snow Crash Movie  From the fingers-crossed department SomePgmr tips this quote from Geek.com: "Fans of the cyberpunk novel Snow Crash have reason to rejoice today, as it's been announced that the film adaptation of Neal Stephenson's classic has been revived once again, this time with an exciting...   US Security Services May 'Have Moles Within Microsoft,' Says Researcher  From the clippy-was-a-double-agent department Barence writes "U.S. government officials could be working under cover at Microsoft to help the country's cyber-espionage programme, according to one leading security expert. According to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security firm...   Aussie Telco Lays New Fiber For Microsecond Trading Boost  From the we-can-make-it-faster department schliz writes "Australian data center and telecommunications provider Vocus has installed two new underwater fiber links across the Sydney Harbor in a bid for the lowest connection latency between the city's financial district and the Australian...   Hybrid Drives Struggling In Face of SSDs  From the great-enemy-of-the-good department Lucas123 writes "New numbers show hybrid drives, which combine NAND flash with spinning disk, will double in sales from 1 million to 2 million units this year. Unfortunately for Seagate — the only manufacturer of hybrids — solid-state...   Online Pharmacy Pioneer Arrested In Florida  From the internet-pill-man department FeatherBoa writes "A Manitoba man who was one of the first entrepreneurs in the cross-border online pharmacy industry has been arrested in Florida and is facing charges related to the sale of foreign and counterfeit medicines. The U.S. Food and...   Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers  From the fishing-expedition department beaverdownunder writes "In an effort to combat fraudulent claims lodged within its Centrelink welfare-payment agency, the Australian Government has asked auction-site eBay to name all Aussies who sold more than $20,000 worth of goods in the last...   Analyzing Climate Change On Carbon Rich Peat Bogs  From the bogged-down department eldavojohn writes "A new report (PDF) from Climate Central shows that climate change has been affecting some states more than others for the past 100 years. As you can see from a video released by NASA, things have become most problematic since...   New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space  From the great-beyond department sighted writes "Yesterday, someone tweeting for the Voyager 2 spacecraft posted: 'Interesting. Compare my data 4 high-energy nucleons w V1's That increase is attracting attention!' Today, NASA says that scientists looking at this rapid rise draw...   Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers  From the must-have-eight-years-experience-and-good-references department Sparrowvsrevolution writes "In the wake of confirmation that the U.S. government was involved in the creation of Stuxnet and likely Flame, a look over job listings on defense contractor sites shows just how explicitly the Pentagon and the firms...   Why Intel Needs Smartphones More Than They Need Intel  From the not-the-only-game-in-town department An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from ZDNet: "The launch of the Orange San Diego, the first handset using an Intel Atom processor, marks a big milestone for the chipmaker: it's finally in the smartphone market. But does the market need...

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