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Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest   |  Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal     US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time  Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest  Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies  Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal  $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent  Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration?  More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You  WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney  Tesla Model S Named 'Car of the Year'  Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents  IEEE Standards For Voting Machines  Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'"  The Evolution of the Computer Keyboard  Microsoft Reportedly Working On Its Own Smartphone  Apple Loses Trademark Claim Against iFone in Mexico     US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time  From the you-can-trust-us department New submitter jest3r writes "On Tuesday the EFF filed a brief proposing a process for the Court in the Megaupload case to hold the government accountable for the actions it took (and failed to take) when it shut down Megaupload's service and...   Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest  From the information-wants-to-trickle-down department eldavojohn writes "On September 14th a report titled 'Taxes and the Economy: An Economic Analysis of the Top Tax Rates Since 1945' (PDF) penned by the Library of Congress' nonpartisan Congressional Research Service was released to little fanfare....   Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies  From the i-bet-it-involves-the-red-sox department Hugh Pickens writes "Lewis M. Cohen reports that this Election Day, Massachusetts is poised to approve the Death With Dignity Act, a modernized, sanitized, politically palatable term that replaces the now-antiquated expression 'physician-assisted...   Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal  From the act-now-while-supplies-last department MatthewVD writes "The National Hurricane Center reported today that the combined energy and duration of all the storms in the Atlantic basin hurricane season was 30 percent above the average from 1981 to 2010. At Weather Underground, Dr. Jeff...   $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent  From the equivalent-to-running-over-200-construction-workers department another random user writes with news that a Virginia man, Kywan Fisher, has been ordered to pay $1,500,000 to porn-maker Flava Works for sharing ten of the company's films over BitTorrent. "The huge total was reached through penalties of $150,000...   Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration?  From the to-reset-the-defrobnosticator department New submitter Shotgun writes "I heard on the radio that there were some issues with voting machines in Greensboro, NC (my hometown), and the story said the machines just needed "recalibration". Which made me ask, "WTF? Why does a machine for...   More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You  From the but-they-always-forget-my-birthday department CowboyRobot writes "A pair of reports by Juniper and Bit9 confirm the suspicion that many apps are spying on users. '26 percent of Android apps in Google Play can access personal data, such as contacts and email, and 42 percent, GPS location...   WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney  From the flue-the-coop department BigBadBus writes "The BBC is reporting that the remains of a World War 2 carrier pigeon were found during renovation of a chimney in England. What is interesting is that the pigeon's remains still had its message attached to the leg ring; even...   Tesla Model S Named 'Car of the Year'  From the who-needs-combustion department SternisheFan writes with news that Automobile Magazine has named the all-electric Tesla Model S its Car of the Year. Quoting: "We weren't expecting much from the Tesla other than some interesting dinner conversation as we considered 'real'...   Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents  From the system-and-method-for-arranging-0s-and-1s department An anonymous reader writes "We can't get rid of software patents, says Richard Stallman, but we could change how they apply to creating and using software and hardware. In an editorial at Wired, he advocates for a legislative solution to the...   IEEE Standards For Voting Machines  From the all-the-same department kgeiger writes "Voting machine designs and data formats are a free-for-all. The result is poor validation and hence opportunity for fraud. An IEEE standards group wants all election computer systems to speak the same language. From the article:...   Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'"  From the grabbing-geeks department pigrabbitbear writes "Just three weeks after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told an audience at the Sea, Air and Space Museum that the U.S. is on the brink of a 'cyber Pearl Harbor,' the government has decided it needs to beef up the ranks of its...   The Evolution of the Computer Keyboard  From the descent-by-natural-hunt-and-peck department Lucas123 writes "As anyone who's typed on a virtual keyboard — or yelled at a voice-control app like Siri — can attest, no current text input holds a candle to a traditional computer keyboard. From the reed switch keyboards of the...   Microsoft Reportedly Working On Its Own Smartphone  From the seeing-what-sticks department According to a (paywalled) report in the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is experimenting with its own smartphone design. "Officials at some of Microsoft's parts suppliers, who declined to be named, said the Redmond, Wash.-based company is testing...   Apple Loses Trademark Claim Against iFone in Mexico  From the still-working-on-the-i-time-machine department sfcrazy writes "Apple is having trouble in Mexico right before the holiday season. The company has lost rights to the name iPhone in the country, as it was already owned by a Mexican telecom company called iFone (Google translation of Spanish...

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