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• The Gun That Fits On A Floppy Disk

  
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  The 3D printed gun is now a reality . I dont have access to a 3D printer - but Ive downloaded the plans out of morbid curiosity. While downloading the blueprints may not be illegal, any UK citizen who made and owned such a handgun could face arrest, according to the UKs Metropolitan Police. BBC News It may not ...
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• In China, Vulnerable Women, Unwritten Rules

  
  Letter from China — Authority: 113
  For the past couple of weeks, we’ve watched China, on one level or another, convulse around cases that bear something unmistakable in common. First, there was the resurgence of interest in the attempted murder of a young woman named Zhu Ling, a cold case from 1994 that suddenly became a fixation among Internet ...
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• Notes on re:publica 2013

  
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  This was my second time to attend re:publica . It is a yearly social conference that takes place in Berlin. It started as a conference for bloggers, but now it include lots of other themes from startups Read More......( read more )
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• Department of Defense has 3D printed gun yanked... but I got it anyway (and so can you!)

  
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  The Liberator: Coming soon toa desktop near you!Defense Distributed has made a lot of headlines lately about the Liberator: a firearm which is completely fabricated by "3D printing", apart from the firing pin.  I think the success of this gun already is that its got politicians like Charles Schumer and Steve Israel ...
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• Karnataka election results prove that I need a bicycle: Chintu

  
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  Bangalore. After observing that everyone was interpreting the Karnataka assembly election results to suit their own agenda and beliefs, 5-year-old Chintu has decided to do the same. “I need a bicycle; stylish and brand new. The election results prove it,” Chintu declared with a confidence matched only by ...
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• The entire nation of Syria goes offline yet again

  
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  Entire countries can go offline. Syria’s done it before, and now it appears that the troubled nation has dropped its web connection again, according to Google’s Transparency Report and other online sources. The outage appears to have begun just before 3PM ET, according to Google’s report, and has yet to be ...
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• Reductio ad Godwinum

  
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  Anyone who has spent some time online, especially in forums or social media where chat and debate predominate, is likely to have come across references to Godwin’s Law , created by Mike Godwin in 1990: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. ...
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• Is Everyone in the World is Subject to US Law?

  
  That's Swell — Authority: 143
  The US is having a problem with its Megaupload case. Before they can continue with the prosecution they have to convince a judge that individuals who have never set foot in the United States are subject to US law. Via Torrentfreak: “The Government explains that the DoJ’s letter begins with “a bedrock principle ...
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• What If the FBI Wiretapped Your Facebook Account?

  
  Civil Rights Blog — Authority: 133
  Both current and former U.S. officials are proposing legislation that could put pressure on Google, Facebook and other tech companies to make it possible for law enforcement to "eavesdrop" on online communication as they occ
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• articles worth reading

  
  The World According to Pia — Authority: 139
  A while back someone hinted that for sanitys sake its a good thing not to watch or read the news, I gave it a try and I after a couple of months sans news as such I have to say its a huge relief not to deal with the enormity of human stupidy, evil and pain and the way its package by journalism. Of course theres no ...
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• Graphic Humor 209

  
  CARLOS Tiger without Time — Authority: 128
  Filed under: Americas, Children, Christian, Education, Friendship & Love, GOD, Graphic Humor, Incredible but Truth, Internet, Moral Decisions, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Spiritual Thoughts, USA, Words or Number to Think, Worry
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• Narrowing the way, or the shad run, whichever you think more important

  
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• Google sees record increase in government takedown requests

  
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  Google released its seventh transparency report today , which highlights the number of takedown requests that Google receives on a bi-yearly basis. This time around, Google received 2,285 government requests to remove 24,179 pieces of content off of Google’s search engine between July 2012 and December 2012, which ...
  3 weeks ago

• Doing good with data: why Datakind is launching in the UK

  
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  US organisation Datakind - which joins developers with charities - is starting up in the UK. Kaitlin Thaney explains why "If you dont have data, youre just another person with an opinion." - Benita Refson, Chief Executive at Place2Be You dont have to look too far (or too hard, really) to spot a story using the ...
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• Arab Spring – Thank you for Game of Thrones

  
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  My latest addiction is to the Game of Thrones.  TV and print. I would never have picked up the books because fantasy isn’t my thing, but after getting a taste of the HBO series I began recording the previous seasons. But even watching each and every espisode, I felt I was missing something, so I began tracking down ...
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• YaLa Young Leaders - By Aaron David Miller

  
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  How a Facebook organizationcould transform the Middle East.
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• President Could Be Last Hope to Stop CISPA

  
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  While nobody can deny there is a serious problem with Internet security, it doesnt mean that any bill that comes along that tries to attack that problem should be taken seriously. CISPA is a bad bill written by clueless politicians that runs roughshod over personal privacy and it needs to be stopped. The president ...
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• Senate Majority Leader Reid Fast Tracking the Internet Sales Tax Vote

  
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  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided last week  to push through Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi’s bill, the Marketplace Fairness Act, so that it bypasses any committee debates and thus can be brought to the floor for a vote immediately. A vote on Enzi’s bill, s. 743, is expected this week. The Wall Street ...
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• Football fixes terrorism, says Australia

  
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  Boston could have been spared a lot of grief last week if Americans had just paid more attention to football — at least if the wisdom of attorney-general Mark Dreyfus here in sports-loving Australia means anything. Here’s what Dreyfus (pictured) said on Channel TEN’s Meet the Press on Sunday, part of an ...
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• Taxing the Internet – Political Money Grab

  
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  Politicians are always looking for ways to pay for their spending habits, much like drug users who are broke and stealing so they can fund their next fix. Taxing Internet sales has been in the DC incubator for a very long time but now we have real legislation moving through Congress and it will contain unintended ...
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