The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, But It Will Be Blogged
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A BBC production crew spent a year in Suffolk County Courthouse, filming a Frontline documentary about the US justice system called ”Real Justice”. One of the featured trials invovled Daniel Downey, charged with murdering a man in a South Boston bar. Attorneys on both sides had agreed to wear wires. Problem was, nobody told Downey, who is arguing on appeal that the wire violated his right to private consultation with his lawyer….
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How did this man die? WMD Scientist’s LONGWORTH, England (Reuters) – A mild-mannered British scientist was |
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Teaching American Politics features lectures by three Harvard faculty members as they reveal the challenges of objectively teaching politics in the classroom. Offering 50 minutes of edited video material and selected slides, the unit encourages students to objectively approach controversial political issues.
http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/tap.html
(Content is available in RealPlayer, QuickTime, and WindowsMedia formats.)
Congressmen John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.) have introduced the “Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act of 2003” (ACCOPS Act), which would make a single unauthorized upload of a copyrighted work a federal felony. In addition, the ACCOPS Act would require that file-sharing Web sites request certain information of their consumers and would allot $15 million to the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute copyright violations.
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If you remember both the Decepticons and Clutch Cargo, you’ll thanks to Keith, |
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The link on our program page to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted page has been fixed. In addition there is now an easy-email link to me, and a direct link to Oyez, where you can download Supreme Court oral argument mp3’s. |
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DEDHAM, MA– A BU-graduate who allegedly carjacked an Audi and |
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Robert McGowan, a trained hypnotherapist from Scotland, believes that more than 50 species, from horses to dogs and cats are receptive to hypnosis. In fact, he uses hypnosis in animal therapy. He begins the process by "de-stressing" them and then uses the reputed power of the Japanese healing art of Reiki to cure their ailments. from the BBC |
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Civil Libertarians and pessimistic futurists (are there That day may be here sooner than you think. Like now. From |
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| The Boston Police Department is rolling out a powerful new computer program built to find hidden connections among people and events almost instantly. Called ”Coplink,” the program sifts through tens of millions of police |
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| Of course, most of these records involve people never suspected of or charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime. Listen to what goes into those "millions of police records" |
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| Designed in an Arizona artificial intelligence lab, Coplink searches through arrest records, incident reports, and emergency phone calls to identify potential suspects and compile all possible leads on them, including past addresses, weapons they have owned, and even the arrest records of people with whom they have been stopped in a car. |
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| According to the article, this is just for starters. Imagine all of the other publicly available data that could be easilyfed into this system: parking violations, political contributions, web publications, tax records, credit information…..Here’s how it works, NOW… |
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| At a demonstration this week, a technician typed in a reporter’s home address. In seconds, a record popped up of the reporter’s car being hit by a fire truck. Then came the reporter’s home phone number and wife’s name. Then came the name of the truck’s driver and the address of the firehouse where the truck is registered. With another click, the program could ask the computer to look for any links between the fire truck and another incident. |
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Now call me an alarmist, but the potential for abuse of |
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