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Here's a movie pitch: One lone telecommunications technician, going about his ordinary daily work in San Francisco, begins to realize things aren't quite what they seem. There's a "secret room" downstairs, and ordinary employees aren't allowed to enter it. Coworkers — almost casually! — remark that a government spy agency is involved, that similar facilities [...]
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Today’s episode of Boing Boing Video is a remixed series of snips from RiP: A Remix Manifesto, an “open source documentary” about copyright and remix culture. Yes, a remix of a remix of a remix! We’re nothing if not meta around here. Watch it! It’s good! Boing Boing Video’s Remix of “RiP: A Remix Manifesto” [...]
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Today’s episode of Fresh Air illuminates the depths of outsourcing in the military and intelligence industries. Think your taxes are going to Social Security, education, filling potholes and paying soldiers? Think again! Contractors get onto government payrolls for sometimes 2-3 times the public sector pay rate!
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Wow, thought crimes are truly becoming punishable crimes… The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR 1955) on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Google Search
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Seems like a guy with a big lens can’t just go around the UK swinging it in public anymore! Are we all suspected criminals or terrorists!??! Quickly a woman and a guy wearing BARGAIN MADNESS shirts joined in the melee and forcibly grabbed my friend and held him against his will. We were both informed [...]
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Haven’t read this yet, but it sounds worth sharing: Dangers of a giant national database — article from 1967 was eerily prescient – Boing Boing
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David Berlind went undercover for ZDNet to investigate Apple’s “no-cash-for-iPhones” policy. He wired his coat for sound and had a 2nd unit with a hidden video camera. What do we learn? Berlind is a terrible fake customer. Take a fucking acting class! Instead of pointing out that it’s illegal to refuse US currency as legal [...]
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Pacific News Service – News > China Takes Aim at Bloggers With New Internet Limits” href=”http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=0095baa989d7314d68d26a175c1ca4bb” target=”_blank”>China Takes Aim at Bloggers With New Internet Limits Journalist Shi Tao, who worked for the Contemporary Business News in Hunan province, was sent to prison in April for 10 years for sending an internal Communist Party memo to [...]
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Bush Wants to Consider Broadening of Military’s Powers During Natural Disasters – New York Times
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