Apple, Microsoft threatened with possible digital copyright lawsuit

Seeded on Thu May 10, 2007 10:21 PM EDT (Forbes)

Every day, people are coming up with new and exciting ways to interpret the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now, two DRM companies are taking on some technology heavyweights. Their claim? The media companies in their scopes have circumvented their protection schemes . . .

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New focus on passenger carry-ons | csmonitor.com

Seeded on Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:41 PM EDT (Christian Science Monitor)

Liquids on a plane? Not anymore. In the U.S., new restrictions on the contents of carry-on baggage are either mainking us safer, or just late for our flights. (That's me in the picture, by the way).

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BostonHerald.com - Local / Regional News: City revives gun buyback plan: Illegal weapons good for $200 gift certificates

Seeded on Wed May 31, 2006 3:40 PM EDT (The Boston Herald)

I hate to be such a nay-sayer, but will $200 gift certificates really entice people to hand in their guns (which are usually worth a good deal more than that, last time I checked)? And why did the gift certificates have to be from target? What a macabre pun.

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Bostonist: First We Take Somerville, Then We Take Cambridge

Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:52 AM EDT (bostonist.com)

Halloween comes early this year as the undead take a walk in the lovely Spring New England weather.

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Judge: Web-Surfing Worker Can't Be Fired - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:36 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

This is an interesting tale of a gentleman told not to surf the internet at work. It brings up an interesting point. It seems sometimes that people blow internet-related instances out of proportion. An employer tried to fire his employee for looking at news sites on the job.

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