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| Click here to save Bletchley Park Downing Street e-petition demands action
Those among you who feel strongly that the government should intervene to save Bletchley Park for the nation are invited to sign an e-petition aimed at prompting just such action.
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| "Too big to fail" is too big to exist (or big enough to nationalize) Armen Sedrakian makes a good point in a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle: Don't let companies grow 'too big to fail':
Whatever happened to breaking up large corporations so they don't dominate the market? Instead of the Treasury Department bailing out corporations, why doesn't the antitrust division of the federal government break up corporations? At the very lea [..] |
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| Security theater Airline captain, lawyer, child on terror 'watch list':
James Robinson is a retired Air National Guard brigadier general and a commercial pilot for a major airline who flies passenger planes around the country.
He has even been certified by the Transportation Security Administration to carry a weapon into the cockpit as part of the government's defense program should a [..] |
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| Legal, British P2P ‘by end of year’ ISP-music talks get serious
Exclusive Legal broadband subscription services that permit file sharing may appear on the market by the year’s end, according to music industry sources - after government intervention brought both music suppliers and ISPs to the table.
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| <em>El Reg</em> procures OGC mousemat Cracking stuff
LogoWatch exclusive We’re absolutely delighted this morning to bring readers concrete proof of the Office of Government Commerce’s rebranding folly, in the form of this splendid mousemat:
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| Korea Goes Game Crazy, Dumps Billions Into Industry [Industry] The South Korean government says they will invest 350 billion won in the computer game industry by 2012. In a meeting Wednesday about plans to develop the game industry in the country, Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Yu In-chon said they country's game industry hit a bil [..] |
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| UK comms intercepts up by half - and it isn’t the council Wristslap for town halls’ street watchers, however
The latest reports from government surveillance watchdogs reveals that interception of communications by UK officials surged by almost 50 per cent in 2007. British public bodies including police and intelligence agencies made 519,260 requests for information to telcos and ISPs during the year.
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| UK.gov pushes £50,000 fine for online copyright infringement Clampdown on commercial piracy
The government has launched a consultation on plans to increase the maximum fine for traders in copyright-infringing material from £5,000 to £50,000 as part of a plan to protect “creative Britain”.
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| UK Minister Wants Kids to Play More Games [Politics] Who says UK lawmakers are hostile to video games? Tom Watson, the government's Cabinet Office Minister wants kids to play more. And not just edutainment or shovelware ? violent ones are OK. "Basically, I think playing games is a good thing," Watson (pictured) told the Mirror. " [..] |
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| A National "Do Not Target" List Won't Save Behavioral Targeting. But We Know How To Do It A group of Internet ad publishers is trying to stave off looming government regulation -- by saying they'd allow consumers to opt out of "behavioral targeting" programs.
The group, which includes Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL's Tacoda (TWX), and DoubleClick (GOOG), have released a densely written "self-regulatory code of conduct" designed to lull all but the most wired of readers to sleep. But the [..] |
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| No worries Congress's new and improved bailout bill includes, along with the obligatory helpings of pork, a provision that would increase FDIC bank deposit insurance from $100,000 to $250,000. Should the House pass the bill today, that boost in insurance would let a lot of Americans sleep a lot easier. And that's the problem. When the government provides free insurance for an investment - any investment - it [..] |
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