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Has anyone noticed that halloween is growing in popularity over the last
few years? It seems that this night of begging for treats and
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Somebody needs to explain this one… why does killing an endangered
species help protect it? Somehow I don’t think that taxidermy is what
people mean by "preserving" endangered species.

Hunting
‘has conservation role’
Tourists paying to hunt
endangered animals actually help protect species, a leading
conservationist says. [...]

I have just one question about this: WHY does it take a "think tank" to
come up with something so obvious as the fact that a person has the
right to make a personal copy of CDs and DVDs [...]

After the billions that were spent to develop and launch the thing, They’d durn well better repair it.

Hubble
telescope will get upgrade
Nasa chief Mike Griffin
says shuttle astronauts will be sent to service the Hubble Space
Telescope.

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Contrary to what is apparently popular belief, I don’t think that
"Global Warming" will have any seriously negative effect on the economy.
In fact, I’m quite certain that several major coroporations and
countries will [...]

Y’know, there is already a perfectly good email authentication technology. In the form of PGP and GnuPG. They’re easy to use and Microsoft has never touched them. Better yet, GnuPG is open source freeware.

Micro$oft’$ email auth thing has struck me as a bad idea from the word go. I’ve never heard [...]

This is just a bad idea. I wouldn’t trust the UN to deliver milk money, let alone control the internet.

Tech Politics Podcast: Time to trust the U.N. with the Internet?
A U.N.-sponsored conclave gets underway next week to decide several big cyberissues–not the least being who should control the Internet.

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Crypto products may need work to both make them more ‘adoptable’ by new users and educate potential users about how truely simple to use it can be, but I personally have a hard time trusting a Microsoft solution.

At 30, crypto still lacks usability, experts say
Government controls held back cryptography in the past, but today usability [...]

Hrm.. I seem to recall that I expected this thing to be hacked soon. I sure hope I wrote that down someplace, cause it was right.

Security Firm Bypasses Patch Guard

filenavigator writes, “This week the security firm Authentium found a workaround for Patch Guard, the security feature Microsoft has embedded into the 64-bit [...]

Why is it that things like THIS are never featured on the evening news? Could it have anything to do with powers that be really not wanting news like this to be widely known?

I think that’s the most likely answer.

Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law

An anonymous reader writes to point us to an [...]