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joeflies writes:
Park safety manager Elston Stephenson provides details about buckets of uranium that exposed visitors to to radiation, and the subsequent cover up. The radiation was detected by a teenager that brought a Geiger counter to the building, and subsequently "cleaned" up by employees equipped with dish washing gloves and a broken mop handle.
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joeflies writes:
In a previous Slashdot article, hackers worked to preserve content for the Steubenville rape case. The two football players charged received juvenile detention sentences of one and two years. One of the hackers, on the other hand, faces 10 years in prison
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joeflies writes:
CNN.com published an article entitled "Digital Piracy Hits the e-Book Industry". The article quotes the following statement by novelist Sherman Alexie made: "With the open-source culture on the Internet, the idea of ownership — of artistic ownership — goes away," Alexie added. "It terrifies me."
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joeflies writes:
The San Francisco Chronicle has an extensive article on the controversial site Jigsaw, which makes it easy to sell other people's identity information. Jigsaw encourages people to collect business cards and email signature blocks, which is compiled together into a searchable database. Participants earn points towards their own searches or earn money.
Is this exactly what Scott McNealy meant when he said electronic privacy is dead?
