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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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15th Anniversary: Why J. J. Abrams, Joe Trippi and Hilary Rosen Remain Wired Heroes * Years after they first appeared in Wired, these three VIPs remain in the spotlight. J. J. Abrams Since upgrading TV with that confounding isle, he's taken on 2009's Star Trek prequel. Why he does it "It's cool to bring something to life, whether it's a s Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on $5 million bail. News reports have depicted a rogue admin taking Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Why is the new 3G iPhone so cheap? The mystery behind why the new iPhone is so cheap may be solved, with market researcher iSuppli saying it costs just $173 to make.Apple caused a stir earlier this month when it launched the new 3G iPhone with a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Why techies love games -- and why it's good they do Everyone knows that techies love "Dungeons & Dragons," where they can prowl the bowels of a castle and cast spells on clueless managers, er, mages. After all, it's just a game.Or is it? Many tech staffers are al Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Does Yahoo reorg signal cloud computing move? Under fire from angry shareholders and rocked by a stream of high-profile executive departures, embattled Yahoo on Thursday announced another reorganization, one which includes the formation of a cloud computing and data infrastructure group. The move has some analyst Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Why Obama may back an H-1B increase even in a recession Does Obama support the H-1B visa program? Obama supports the temporary visa program but also wants it reformed. It needs reform. A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service report released in October said as many as one-in-five visa applications are either fraudulent o Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Does the U.S. need a new broadband policy? Ken Hubbard worries that broadband speeds in the U.S. aren't adequate for the next wave of Web content.Hubbard, president of networking startup InteliCloud Technology, said he's generally not a fan of large gove Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why? Free Software Magazine: "Several governments and councils reported multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux. Free software activists praised each one of them in their blogs and commentaries. However, a few months or years on, some of those plans crumbled. Vienna is one of them. A question here Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Free, Legal and Online: Why Hulu Is the New Way to Watch TV What's a hulu? In August 2007, this question ricocheted through the blogosphere to a chorus of derisive laughter. Fox and NBC were going to make the Internet safe for television! They were building a "YouTube killer"! And they were calling it Hulu! It was almost too perfect—an absurdist topper Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Free, Legal and Online: Why Hulu Is the New Way to Watch TV What's a hulu? In August 2007, this question ricocheted through the blogosphere to a chorus of derisive laughter. Fox and NBC were going to make the Internet safe for television! They were building a "YouTube killer"! And they were calling it Hulu! It was almost too perfect—an absurdist topper Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Why I post censorship workarounds Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Why I post censorship workarounds--Does posting censorship workarounds help the censors? That's the question I've been mulling for the last few days. I asked for your comments, and the verdict is in: Almost no one thinks we should ke Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Inside Jokes: Science Writer Jim Holt Explores Why We Laugh What do you get when you cross scholarly research and dick jokes? Nothing to laugh at, normally. But science writer Jim Holt defies the Heisenberg principle of humor — you can't study it without killing it — in his book Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of J Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Inside Jokes: Science Writer Jim Holt Explores Why We Laugh What do you get when you cross scholarly research and dick jokes? Nothing to laugh at, normally. But science writer Jim Holt defies the Heisenberg principle of humor — you can't study it without killing it — in his book Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of J Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Padilla Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison - New York Times WHDH-TVPadilla Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in PrisonNew York Times - 5 hours agoBy KIRK SEMPLE MIAMI - Jose Padilla, the Brooklyn-born convert to Islam who was once accused by the government of plotting to detonate a “dirty bomb” in the United States, w Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax? Aren't fax signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them. Yet peop Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax? Aren't fax signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them. Yet peop Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |