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Wired News: Prions: When Proteins Attack |
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| Topic: Science |
4:26 am EST, Mar 21, 2004 |
] Once prion diseases infect a body, the proteins change
] shape and, with a kiss of death, turn their neighbors
] into clones of themselves. Clumps of misshapen proteins
] form, overwhelming neurons and poking holes in the brain.
] Death is inevitable. Wired News: Prions: When Proteins Attack |
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Videos from PhreakNIC 7 Online |
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| Topic: Technology |
4:24 am EST, Mar 21, 2004 |
PhreakNIC, for those of you raised by wolves, is an annual technology and culture exhibition (the kinder, gentler name for "Hacker Convention") in Nashville, TN. This year's event is all over, except for a few blood tests that we're still awaiting results on, but if you missed it you can catch some of the events through the video feeds. Wilpig was nice enough to set up a recorder on ConTV, but unfortunately it crashed a couple of times. Some of the best attended talks were lost. Seriously, just download the .avi files, as they are smaller (DiVX Format) and have been edited. The raw .wmv files are labeled based on the original schedule, not the actual execution of such schedule. For instance, the cable feed wasn't set up for the Welcome, so if you download it you'll be cursing at the fact that you have an hour of Nashville Tourism commercials. Videos from PhreakNIC 7 Online |
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4:24 am EST, Mar 21, 2004 |
Like every self-respecting Hollywood player, Ben Silverman Googles himself. Competitively. "It's become this ridiculous new power game." It's more like the new kabbalah. Google is many things to many people, and to some, perhaps too much. Google is changing culture and consciousness. Esther Dyson says that the flood of unedited information demands that users sharpen critical thinking skills, to filter the results. "Google forces us to ask, 'What do we really want to know?'" Larry Lessig: "Google makes it harder than ever to escape the past." Google's new headquarters is what graduate school would be like if all the students were rich. In Searching We Trust |
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January 2000 Encryption Export Regulations |
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4:23 am EST, Mar 21, 2004 |
] This rule amends the Export Administration Regulations
] (EAR) to allow the export and reexport of any encryption
] commodity or software to individuals, commercial firms,
] and other non-government end-users in all destinations.
] It also allows exports and reexports of retail encryption
] commodities and software to all end-users in all
] destinations. Post-export reporting requirements are
] streamlined, and changes are made to reflect amendments
] to the Wassenaar Arrangement. This rule implements the
] encryption policy announced by the White House on
] September 16 [1999] and will simplify U.S. encryption export
] rules. Restrictions on terrorist supporting states (Cuba,
] Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan or Syria), their
] nationals and other sanctioned entities are not changed
] by this rule. January 2000 Encryption Export Regulations |
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