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<title>Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xBTi125BWN8/amazon-poised-to-get-cut-of-ca-sales-taxes</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ycSDtX_ve4dQ2yk6s5t7sCwqj4g/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ycSDtX_ve4dQ2yk6s5t7sCwqj4g/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ycSDtX_ve4dQ2yk6s5t7sCwqj4g/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ycSDtX_ve4dQ2yk6s5t7sCwqj4g/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;theodp writes "Eager to host Amazon warehouses and receive a cut of the tax on sales to customers statewide, the LA Times reports that two California cities are offering Amazon most of the tax money they stand to gain. After agreeing to collect California sales taxes beginning in the fall, Amazon is setting up two fulfillment centers in San Bernadino and Patterson, which will gain not only jobs but also a tax bonanza: Sales to Amazon customers throughout California will be deemed to take place there, so all the sales tax earmarked for local government operations will go to those two cities. The windfall is so lucrative that local officials are preparing to give Amazon the lion's share of their take as a reward for setting up shop there. 'The tax is supposed to be supporting government,' said Lenny Goldberg, executive director of the California Tax Reform Assn., of the proposed sales-tax rebate. 'Instead, it's going back into Amazon's pocket.' Sen. Mark DeSaulnier added: 'It seems like the private sector finds a way to pit one city against the other. You can't give away sales tax in this manner.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/05/21/0247237/amazon-poised-to-get-cut-of-ca-sales-taxes?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=2863155&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/xBTi125BWN8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-21T12:08:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>government</dc:subject>
<slash:department>unfettered-free-market-free-of-cronyism</slash:department>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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<item rdf:about="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/21/0237212/disentangling-facts-from-fantasy-in-the-world-of-edison-and-tesla?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">
<title>Disentangling Facts From Fantasy In the World of Edison and Tesla</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EBkoQI15wTY/disentangling-facts-from-fantasy-in-the-world-of-edison-and-tesla</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Yxg2HORInWCfkyYwaiAudZIeRA/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Yxg2HORInWCfkyYwaiAudZIeRA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Yxg2HORInWCfkyYwaiAudZIeRA/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5Yxg2HORInWCfkyYwaiAudZIeRA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;dsinc writes "Forbes' Alex Knapp writes about the Tesla idolatry and confusing his genius for godhood: 'Tesla wasn't an ignored god-hero. Thomas Edison wasn't the devil. They were both brilliant, strong-willed men who helped build our modern world. They both did great things and awful things. They were both brilliantly right about some things and just as brilliantly wrong about others. They had foibles, quirks, passions, misunderstandings and moments of wonder.'"&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/05/21/0237212/disentangling-facts-from-fantasy-in-the-world-of-edison-and-tesla?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=2863145&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/EBkoQI15wTY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-21T08:13:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>science</dc:subject>
<slash:department>not-about-the-slash-fiction</slash:department>
<slash:section>science</slash:section>
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<title>Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch?</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/PDrMagEvvQ0/ask-slashdot-temporary-backup-pouch</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oFEI7ISsRWAxBY9zlzRm47JJZ90/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oFEI7ISsRWAxBY9zlzRm47JJZ90/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oFEI7ISsRWAxBY9zlzRm47JJZ90/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oFEI7ISsRWAxBY9zlzRm47JJZ90/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;An anonymous reader writes "It looks simple. I've got a laptop and a USB HDD for backups. With rsync, I only move changes to the USB HDD for subsequent backups. I'd like to move these changes to a more portable USB stick when I'm away, then sync again to the USB HDD when I get home. I figured with the normality of the pieces and the situation, there'd be an app for that, but no luck yet. I'm guessing one could make a hardlink parallel-backup on the laptop at the same time as the USB HDD backup. Then use find to detect changes between it and the actual filesystem when it's time to backup to the USB stick. But there would need to be a way to preserve paths, and a way communicate deletions. So how about it? I'm joe-user with Ubuntu. I even use grsync for rsync. After several evenings of trying to figure this out, all I've got is a much better understanding of what hardlinks are and are not. What do the smart kids do? Three common pieces of hardware, and a simple-looking task."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/05/21/0226207/ask-slashdot-temporary-backup-pouch?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=2863129&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/PDrMagEvvQ0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-21T05:19:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>storage</dc:subject>
<slash:department>don't-forget-your-spare-co-backup-pouch</slash:department>
<slash:section>askslashdot</slash:section>
<slash:comments>96</slash:comments>
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<title>Linux 3.4 Released</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/y4tZpDtpREw/linux-34-released</link>
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/81WoIirOLAY75pZHDp44QNjc9qM/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/81WoIirOLAY75pZHDp44QNjc9qM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;jrepin writes with news of today's release (here's Linus's announcement) of Linux 3.4: "This release includes several Btrfs updates: metadata blocks bigger than 4KB, much better metadata performance, better error handling and better recovery tools. There are other features: a new X32 ABI which allows to run in 64 bit mode with 32 bit pointers; several updates to the GPU drivers: early modesetting of Nvidia Geforce 600 'Kepler', support of AMD RadeonHD 7xxx and AMD Trinity APU series, and support of Intel Medfield graphics; support of x86 cpu driver autoprobing, a device-mapper target that stores cryptographic hashes of blocks to check for intrusions, another target to use external read-only devices as origin source of a thin provisioned LVM volume, several perf improvements such as GTK2 report GUI and a new 'Yama' security module."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/05/21/0123245/linux-34-released?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed"&gt;Read more of this story&lt;/a&gt; at Slashdot.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;amp;id=2863063&amp;amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/y4tZpDtpREw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-21T02:24:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>gnu</dc:subject>
<slash:department>latest-in-a-long-long-run</slash:department>
<slash:section>linux</slash:section>
<slash:comments>227</slash:comments>
<slash:hit_parade>227,216,146,116,41,26,22</slash:hit_parade>
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<title>Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/deR7gdfBjEA/facial-recognition-cameras-peering-into-some-sf-nightspots</link>
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E5Pt-o9Gg4gggYSKAkuqISNQv5Q/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E5Pt-o9Gg4gggYSKAkuqISNQv5Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Fluffeh writes "On Friday, a company called SceneTap flipped the on switch enabling cameras installed in around 20 bars to monitor how full the venues are, the mix of men and women, their ages &amp;mdash; and to make all this information available live via an iPhone or Android app. Privacy advocates are unimpressed, though, as the only hint that people are being monitored is via tiny stickers on the windows. Beyond academics and policy experts, some San Francisco bar owners that originally partnered with SceneTap have said that they're pulling out and will be taking down the company's cameras. An increasing number of bars still listed on the SceneTap's site are now saying that they're not working with the Chicago startup, including Mr. Smith's, Southpaw, John Colins, and Bar None."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T23:46:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>privacy</dc:subject>
<slash:department>why-I-never-leave-the-house</slash:department>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
<slash:comments>91</slash:comments>
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<title>Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why?</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/I2VXRdyT8SY/whos-pirating-game-of-thrones-and-why</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SkF0pv0tztqlCAVj7Z9DoVs0I2I/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SkF0pv0tztqlCAVj7Z9DoVs0I2I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SkF0pv0tztqlCAVj7Z9DoVs0I2I/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SkF0pv0tztqlCAVj7Z9DoVs0I2I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;TheGift73 writes "In a few hours a new episode of Game of Thrones will appear on BitTorrent, and a few days later between 3 and 4 million people will download this unofficial release. Statistics gathered by TorrentFreak reveal that more people are downloading the show compared to last year, when it came in as the second most downloaded TV-show of 2011. The number of weekly downloads worldwide is about equal to the estimated viewers on HBO in the U.S., but why? One of the prime reasons for the popularity among pirates is the international delay in airing. In Australia, for example, fans of the show have to wait a week before they can see the latest episode. So it's hardly a surprise that some people are turning to BitTorrent instead. And indeed, if we look at the top countries where Game of Thrones is downloaded, Australia comes out on top with 10.1% of all downloads (based on one episode). But delays are just part of the problem. The fact that the show is only available to those who pay for an HBO subscription doesn't help either."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T22:50:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>piracy</dc:subject>
<slash:department>stop-abrogating-my-television-rights</slash:department>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
<slash:comments>632</slash:comments>
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<title>Rare 'Annular Solar Eclipse' Tonight</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/fdGR649-tkA/rare-annular-solar-eclipse-tonight</link>
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&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oJIerlann8iclX38kJ1RHzpPV3c/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oJIerlann8iclX38kJ1RHzpPV3c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;First time accepted submitter Trubacca writes "The Northern-Pacific "Ring of Fire" has an opportunity tonight to observe an entirely different "ring of fire": an annular solar eclipse where the moon, owing to it's distance from the Earth, seems smaller than the apparent diameter of the sun. This results in the fiery ring for which the phenomenon takes it's name. Space.com has a decent write-up on the path of the eclipse, times, and tips for safe-viewing."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T21:32:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>space</dc:subject>
<slash:department>ring-around-the-rosy</slash:department>
<slash:section>science</slash:section>
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<title>Turning Soap Film Into a Projector Screen</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/uYF29Ex7V5U/turning-soap-film-into-a-projector-screen</link>
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T20:10:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>displays</dc:subject>
<slash:department>scribblin'-bubbles</slash:department>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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<title>Programming &amp;mdash; Now Starting In Elementary School</title>
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T18:52:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>education</dc:subject>
<slash:department>deprogramming-starts-after-college</slash:department>
<slash:section>news</slash:section>
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<title>Assange Stands 'Real Chance' of Election In Australia</title>
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T17:44:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>australia</dc:subject>
<slash:department>good-hair-party</slash:department>
<slash:section>politics</slash:section>
<slash:comments>187</slash:comments>
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<item rdf:about="http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/05/20/1632234/apple-lifts-ban-on-the-word-jailbreak?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed">
<title>Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak"</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/0NGSZHO_UN0/apple-lifts-ban-on-the-word-jailbreak</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Bt-ONFzjW-UFqxcSfJlPHJoex8/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Bt-ONFzjW-UFqxcSfJlPHJoex8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Bt-ONFzjW-UFqxcSfJlPHJoex8/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9Bt-ONFzjW-UFqxcSfJlPHJoex8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Gunkerty Jeb writes "After banning the word 'jailbreak' from its app store and music library, Apple [Friday] reversed course and again permits the term &amp;mdash; slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content &amp;mdash; to appear on iTunes and its App Store. On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the Thin Lizzy album 'Jailbreak' as an example. For awhile, the title was listed as 'J******k' in Apple's music library, at least its U.S. version. In other instances, digital content continued to bear the full name Jailbreak."&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T16:33:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>ios</dc:subject>
<slash:department>sweet-of-them</slash:department>
<slash:section>apple</slash:section>
<slash:comments>105</slash:comments>
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<title>Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FVguOoVjdD0/pakistan-blocks-twitter-over-blasphemous-images</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2GPp1HHzLHo-Zn3-9H7DfwXlIQ4/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2GPp1HHzLHo-Zn3-9H7DfwXlIQ4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2GPp1HHzLHo-Zn3-9H7DfwXlIQ4/1/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2GPp1HHzLHo-Zn3-9H7DfwXlIQ4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Diggester writes with this news from the Times of India: "Pakistani authorities on Friday further widened the crackdown on websites with blasphemous contents by restricting access to popular social networking website Twitter. Pakistani users were unable to log into Twitter after internet service providers blocked access to the site." The block was prompted by Twitter's refusal to take down messages promoting a cartoon contest to which the Pakistani government objects for its depictions of Muhammad. This end-run falls right in line with the pessimistic reaction from Reporters Without Borders to the Pakistani court decision calling Internet censorship unconstitutional.&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;"&gt;
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T15:23:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>censorship</dc:subject>
<slash:department>omnipresent-omnipowerful-omniscient-government</slash:department>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
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<title>ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/i4uR5JXoa-c/arm-intel-battle-heats-up</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/v4QDC1i62cm966YfjMS0-k5Q_yY/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/v4QDC1i62cm966YfjMS0-k5Q_yY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T14:27:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>intel</dc:subject>
<slash:department>all-about-comparative-advantage</slash:department>
<slash:section>hardware</slash:section>
<slash:comments>238</slash:comments>
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<title>Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/AVfky3GKNTI/protecting-state-secrets-through-copyright</link>
<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RTFd5F1Q907AVu497C3xYhU9Ge4/0/da"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RTFd5F1Q907AVu497C3xYhU9Ge4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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<dc:creator>samzenpus</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T13:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>government</dc:subject>
<slash:department>listen-to-the-law</slash:department>
<slash:section>yro</slash:section>
<slash:comments>123</slash:comments>
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<title>Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married"</title>
<link>http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/__SwZU5Ll_o/zuckerberg-updates-relationship-status-to-married</link>
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<dc:creator>timothy</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-05-20T12:27:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:subject>facebook</dc:subject>
<slash:department>don't-call-her-his-plus-one</slash:department>
<slash:section>technology</slash:section>
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