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Submission + - Senators against Net Neutrality (rawstory.com) 3

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opencity

on Thursday September 24, 2009 @05:32AM

opencity writes: "Led by Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison a group of Senators have introduced a bill to prevent the FCC from getting funding for any initiative to uphold Net neutrality. This is after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski stated the Obama administrations plan to enforce Net neutrality."

Submission + - Robot Rebellion

Submitted by opencity on Friday April 11, 2008 @09:14PM

opencity writes: The Register reports that the (perhaps inevitable) robot rebellion has been avoided ... for now. "Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades." Gizmodo has a good photo.

Submission + - Diebold disks appear anonymously

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opencity

on Sunday October 22, 2006 @08:38PM

opencity writes: "The Washington Post reports two Diebold source disks appeared anonymously at the office of Cheryl C. Kagan, a former Maryland delegate who has questioned the security of electronic voting systems.

A choice quote from the Diebold spokesman Mark Radke ... the company was not averse to disclosing its code if the law were changed to require it. But he said disclosure would dampen innovation in the field."

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