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Recently, President Bush vetoed the Intelligence Authorization bill because it made it illegal for the CIA to use waterboarding as an interrogation technique. Tomorrow the House of Representatives is expected to vote in an attempt to overturn that veto.
Please contact your Congressional Representative tonight and ask for their support overturning Bush’s veto. Below is the [...]

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We watched the movie Seraphim Falls the other night. I recommend it. The ending was a bit surreal… All I will say is that the main characters make a devil’s deal, and through it find redemption. But that’s not why you should watch Seraphim Falls.
The reason to watch Seraphim Falls is the acting of Pierce [...]

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“Maybe netizens are too busy enjoying the new social and cultural freedoms offered by the internet to care about politics.”
-from The Economist, as quoted in this post to the Intelligent People mailing list

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There is an interesting article on the Great Firewall of China, dubbed the “Golden Shield Project”, at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/chinese-firewall. It’s not very technical but it does go into the various techniques used.
It’s especially interesting to consider that these techniques are often used in “network management” in the US, and that the techniques employed by P2P protocols [...]

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