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Say what? GNU Emacs violates the GPL
GPL violations are a dime a dozen. Some are intentional, some are not — but I don't think I've ever seen one quite as surprising as this one. Yes, Richard Stallman has sent out a note letting everybody know that the 23.2 and 23.3 releases of GNU Emacs are in violation of the GPL. Says Stallman, "We have made a very bad mistake." Read More


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Economics of Spam
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5 misperceptions about deploying IPv6
We've been very fortunate to have author Shannon McFarland blogging for us as part of our Cisco Subnet community, and he has just completed his list of top five misperceptions about IPv6 deployment. Read More

ACLU to Congress: Cancer of Gov't Secrecy Is Killing America
American democracy is beyond sick, in fact it's cancerous due to government secrecy cloaking the surveillance of American citizens. According to a new ACLU report, written by Mike German, a former FBI undercover agent, and Jay Stanley, "We are now living in an age of government secrecy run amok." Read More


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Windows XP is a Rootkit Spawning Pool
If you're still dragging your feet on moving to Windows 7, consider this: a report from the Czeck antivirus firm Avast notes that three in four PCs infected with rootkits are running Windows XP, and it's not because so many people use aging operating system. Read More

State on rigged lottery: It's not a bug, it's a feature
Play a Massachusetts state lottery game called Cash WinFall during the right time periods -- a few days every three months -- and with a hefty enough upfront investment - hundreds of thousands of dollars - and you are all but certain to come out a big winner. Read More


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Pheeeew! I dodged the 'IE users are dumb' hoax story
Regular readers know my quirks, pet peeves and phobias, with the latter list - at least professionally speaking - topped by a paralyzing fear of falling for and helping to spread one of those hoax news stories. Read More

IEEE Green Communications event is, naturally, online only
The 40,000-plus member IEEE Communications Society will hold the first of what it hopes will be an annual IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (GreenCom) on Sept. 26 - 29. Read More

Scariest Black Hat story so far: Power plants at risk
Last night at Black Hat in Las Vegas, security researcher Dillon Beresford showed a group of reporters and government types how he can commandeer the Siemens S7 computers that are control many industrial operations, including power plants. Read More



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