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A New Hampshire newspaper tears into Hillary Clinton for breaking her pledge not to campaign in Florida: “Sen. Hillary Clinton signed a pledge not to “campaign or participate” in the Michigan or Florida Democratic primaries. She participated in both primaries and is campaigning in Florida. Which proves, again, that Hillary Clinton is a liar.”
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“Please no more myspace. . . . We were just recently alerted here at Mashable that January 30th, just a few scant days away, is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. Cory Geller sent us to a blog post by Simon Owens describing his growing disgust with the constant friend requests from the fembots.”
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Congress and the Bush administration have rationed Pseudoephedrine under the guise of the war on drugs. The replacement product–Phenylephrine–might as well be a placebo. This article assembles evidence that the switch was designed to subsidize a well-heeled Germany company that spent millions in lobbying for the law.
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These printers are supposed to be used from a network. If they were set up correctly, only people on their local area network would be able to use them. In these cases somebody messed up the configuration, allowing anybody online to access them. No Goatse or Tubgirl please
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ThePirateBay has been digging through the enormous chunk of leaked email from MediaDefender, the sleazy enforcers used by the entertainment industry to fight P2P, and they’ve discovered evidence of illegal sabotage. So they’re suing all the big movie and record comapnies in Sweden:

* Twentieth Century Fox, Sweden AB
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Cory Doctorow:
A new crack for the AACS anti-copying system claims it can’t be overcome by updating DVD players and other devices. AACS is the anti-copying system behind Blu-Ray, HD-DVD and other crippled high-def video formats. These systems rely on a “revocation” system that allows new discs to ship with the intelligence to refuse to play [...]

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Xeni Jardin:
Drew from Fark just pointed me to this ABC News web article on the Digg user revolt over the AACS numeric key (previous BB post). Drew says,
The article questions why Digg censors spam and porn, but not the HD-DVD key. I think mainstream media is now going to use this as an excuse [...]

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Cory Doctorow:
Ed Felten has a great rumination on the AACS key debacle in which a copy-prevention software vendor is threatening to sue hundreds of websites for publishing a 16-byte number; Felten points out that it’s not just censorship that’s upsetting the Internet — it’s the absurdity of claiming to own a number:

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Cory Doctorow:

Wired News has a gallery of the lovely photoshops of the notorious AACS “secret key,” a 16-digit number that is illegal to possess and disseminate. AACS is the anti-copying system built into HD-DVDs (and you’re out of your mind if you buy one of these boxes — their future is apparently so fragile that [...]

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