Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 12, 2006 at 4:25:15 PM
Washington Post doesn't know how to conduct a survey. They say a majority of Americans support NSA spying on citizens! This is a PHONE survey, by the way.
France does something. And then backtracks. That anti DRM bill has lost some bite. (Support http://www.thepiratebay.org)
Mobile phone transmitters cause brain cancer?
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The new survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism, including 44 percent who strongly endorsed the effort. Another 35 percent said the program was unacceptable, which included 24 percent who strongly objected to it. A slightly larger majority--66 percent--said they would not be bothered if NSA collected records of personal calls they had made, the poll found.
France does something. And then backtracks. That anti DRM bill has lost some bite. (Support http://www.thepiratebay.org)
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Similarly, iPods are not compatible with music that uses DRM from rival companies such as Microsoft. Under the Senate's new version, a company that agrees to provide these codes will receive a license fee as compensation along with guarantees that the transfer of information will not weaken its copyright protection measures. "We have to ensure that interoperability does not open the doors to abuse," a Senate representative, who did not wish to be identified, told Reuters on Thursday.
Mobile phone transmitters cause brain cancer?
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As staff reacted with shock, the university yesterday shut the top two floors of the Bourke Street building and ordered more than 100 employees to work from home for the next fortnight. The closure follows the discovery of five brain tumours in the past month and two others in 1999 and 2001. Two were malignant and five were benign.