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Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/zqYoMQMa_Po/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign
barbarai notes a report by ABC News's Rick Klein: "For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site. "Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent," James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. according to the ABC news blog."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1711238/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/09/1711238"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1711238/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/QzuIqwuE3Z0/US-Finalizes-Stem-Cell-Research-Guidelines
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Cosmos Magazine, to wit: "The US government unveiled final rules for embryonic stem cell research, laying out ground rules for 'ethically responsible, scientifically worthy' studies eligible for federal funds. The new rules, which go into effect today, follow President Barack Obama's March 9 executive order lifting a ban on embryonic stem cell research, an order that went into effect under his predecessor, George W. Bush. ... The US National Institutes of Health's (NIH) guidelines are slightly less restrictive than those outlined in a draft document released in April in that they allow the use of existing stem cell lines, in addition to new ones derived from IVF procedures. ... The NIH received some 49,000 comments from patient advocacy groups, scientists, medical groups, and other interested parties before issuing the guidelines."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/2027238/US-Finalizes-Stem-Cell-Research-Guidelines?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/2027238"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/2027238/US-Finalizes-Stem-Cell-Research-Guidelines?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/vI8Gh4fF5EU/US-Russia-Reach-Nuclear-Arsenal-Agreement
Peace Corps Library writes "The United States and Russia, seeking to move forward on one of the most significant arms control treaties since the end of the cold war, announced that they had reached a preliminary agreement on cutting each country's stockpiles of strategic nuclear weapons, effectively setting the stage for a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), a cold war-era pact that expires in December. Under the framework, negotiators are to be instructed to craft a treaty that would cut strategic warheads for each side to between 1,500 and 1,675, down from the limit of 2,200 slated to take effect in 2012 under the Treaty of Moscow (PDF) signed by President George W. Bush. The limit on delivery vehicles would be cut to between 500 and 1,100 from the 1,600 currently allowed under Start. Perhaps more important than the specific limits would be a revised and extended verification system that otherwise would expire with Start in December. The United States currently has 1,198 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-based missiles and bombers, which together are capable of delivering 5,576 warheads, according to its most recent Start report in January, while Russia reported that it has 816 delivery vehicles capable of delivering 3,909 warheads. 'We have a mutual interest in protecting both of our populations from the kinds of danger that weapons proliferation is presenting today,' said President Obama."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/1155236/US-Russia-Reach-Nuclear-Arsenal-Agreement?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/07/1155236"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/1155236/US-Russia-Reach-Nuclear-Arsenal-Agreement?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p19Lq-vxmxm_UHRJSxCzAEBrjEc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/p19Lq-vxmxm_UHRJSxCzAEBrjEc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/vI8Gh4fF5EU" height="1" width="1"/>Soulskill2009-07-07T12:49:00+00:00militaryyou-can't-hug-your-children-with-nuclear-armsnews412412,405,349,270,53,29,19http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/07/1155236/US-Russia-Reach-Nuclear-Arsenal-Agreement?from=rssPirate Party Coming To Canada
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/7dAWpJvGF48/Pirate-Party-Coming-To-Canada
An anonymous reader writes "After scoring a surprise electoral win in Sweden and getting high-profile support in Germany, The Pirate Party is coming to Canada. The party's goals are fairly simple. People should have the right to share and copy music, movies and virtually any material, as long as it is for personal use, not for profit. It opposes government and corporate monitoring of Internet activities, unless as part of a criminal investigation. It also wants to phase out patents."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/0714203/Pirate-Party-Coming-To-Canada?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/05/0714203"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/05/0714203/Pirate-Party-Coming-To-Canada?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/wmnLudSbpos/What-the-US-Can-Learn-From-Europes-Pollution-Credit-System
Al writes "Technology Review discusses what a US carbon trading scheme could learn from the flawed European experience. Advocates of carbon-trading schemes like to point to Europe's cap-and-trade program as a model worthy of emulation, but the reality has been less than perfect. A glut of pollution credits, distributed without cost during both the first, transitional phase of the program and the current working phase, drove down the value of the EUAs. As a result, Europe's carbon dioxide emissions remain priced well below 20 euros per ton. With the price of pollution so low, economists say, industries that generate and consume energy have no incentives to change their habits; it is still cheaper to use fossil fuels than to switch to technologies that pollute less. Establishing a carbon price in the US system now, and tightening the system later, could send a dangerously wrong signal to financial markets looking to invest in new energy technologies."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1959239/What-the-US-Can-Learn-From-Europes-Pollution-Credit-System?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/01/1959239"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1959239/What-the-US-Can-Learn-From-Europes-Pollution-Credit-System?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/IzwBujbchUs/The-Hysteria-of-the-Cyber-Warriors
Willfro sends in a piece by Evgeny Morozov at the Boston Review about the hyperbole and the reality of "cyber war." Quoting: "At the end of May, President Obama called cyber-security 'one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation.' His words echo a flurry of gloomy think-tank reports. Unfortunately, these reports are usually richer in vivid metaphor — with fears of 'digital Pearl Harbors' and 'cyber-Katrinas' — than in factual foundation. So why is there so much concern about 'cyber-terrorism?' Answering a question with a question: who frames the debate? Much of the data are gathered by ultra-secretive government agencies — which need to justify their own existence — and cyber-security companies — which derive commercial benefits from popular anxiety. Journalists do not help. Gloomy scenarios and speculations about cyber-Armaggedon draw attention, even if they are relatively short on facts."<p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1549226/The-Hysteria-of-the-Cyber-Warriors?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/01/1549226"></a></p><p><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1549226/The-Hysteria-of-the-Cyber-Warriors?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/QEADSj9ImC4/In-Canada-No-Expectation-of-Privacy-On-the-Net
The_AV8R writes "In a recent interview, Peter Van Loan, the new Canadian Public Safety minister, says ISPs should be able to provide private user information without a warrant. (The only example he gave was cases of child pornography; the interviewer pointed out that in these cases ISPs are already at liberty to divulge customer information without a warrant, but that the proposed rules would make that mandatory whenever the police ask.) He was adamant that in regard to IP addresses, names, cell phone numbers, and email addresses: '...that is not the kind of information about which Canadians have a legitimate expectation of privacy.' The minister denied — even when presented with an audio clip proving otherwise — that his predecessor had promised never to allow the police to wiretap the Internet without a warrant."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1840247/In-Canada-No-Expectation-of-Privacy-On-the-Net?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/30/1840247"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1840247/In-Canada-No-Expectation-of-Privacy-On-the-Net?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xd1j6YcvG8eExEwG07zbeAeuj2k/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xd1j6YcvG8eExEwG07zbeAeuj2k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~4/QEADSj9ImC4" height="1" width="1"/>kdawson2009-06-30T20:23:00+00:00privacyif-you're-not-doing-anything-wrongyro206206,203,153,103,44,30,22http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1840247/In-Canada-No-Expectation-of-Privacy-On-the-Net?from=rssRhode Island Affiliates Banned From Amazon.com Sales
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/JTnLmxFNBXA/Rhode-Island-Affiliates-Banned-From-Amazoncom-Sales
Rand Huck writes "Amazon.com has now added Rhode Island to its blacklist of affiliates in response to its proposed budget changes to enforce a tax on Internet sales, which includes commissions on their affiliate program by content providers based in Rhode Island. The first state to be blacklisted was North Carolina, for the same reason. If you go to a Rhode Island-based or North Carolina-based website that advertises Amazon.com goods as an affiliate, that website will no longer have the goods available because otherwise Amazon.com would be forced to pay sales tax to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations or the State of North Carolina. The state's rationale is, if someone clicks to buy a good from Amazon.com via a site based in Rhode Island, it's equivalent to buying a good from a brick and mortar chain store located in Rhode Island."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1515222/Rhode-Island-Affiliates-Banned-From-Amazoncom-Sales?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/30/1515222"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/30/1515222/Rhode-Island-Affiliates-Banned-From-Amazoncom-Sales?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/LFIPdqVzzBw/Senators-Want-To-Punish-Nokia-Siemens-Over-Iran
fast66 writes "After hearing about Nokia-Siemens sale of Internet-monitoring software to Iran, US Senators Schumer and Graham want to bar them from receiving federal contracts. They planned the action after hearing about a joint venture of Nokia Corp. of Finland and Siemens AG of Germany that sold a sophisticated Internet-monitoring system to Iran in 2008. According to Nextgov.com, Schumer and Graham's bill would require the Obama administration to identify foreign companies that export sensitive technology to Iran and ban them from bidding on federal contracts, or renew expiring ones, unless they first stop exports to Iran."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/2246243/Senators-Want-To-Punish-Nokia-Siemens-Over-Iran?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/29/2246243"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/2246243/Senators-Want-To-Punish-Nokia-Siemens-Over-Iran?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/T6mETcar85w/China-Bans-Gold-Farming
InformationWeek is reporting that the Chinese government has declared a ban on the sale of virtual goods for real currency. This move is poised to shut down a several billion yuan a year business that has been growing by leaps and bounds every year. "The trading of virtual currency for real cash employs hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and generates between $200 million and $1 billion annually, according to a 2008 survey conducted by Richard Heeks at the University of Manchester. He estimates that between 80% and 85% of gold farmers are based in China. [...] Game companies typically forbid gold farming but committed virtual currency traders find ways around such rules. Some game companies have recognized the futility of trying to ban the practice and have built virtual commerce into their game infrastructure."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/1839205/China-Bans-Gold-Farming?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/29/1839205"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/1839205/China-Bans-Gold-Farming?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/aAzLJ3rk3Yw/Canada-Considering-Online-Voting-In-Elections
ehud42 writes "Slashdot readers generally agree that voting machines such as those from Diebold are a bad idea. Well, what about online voting? That is what the Vancouver Sun is reporting. Given that voter turnout in our most recent election was the worst on record, Elections Canada is kicking around the idea of allowing voters to register online, update registration information online, and maybe even vote online."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/0136211/Canada-Considering-Online-Voting-In-Elections?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/28/0136211"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/28/0136211/Canada-Considering-Online-Voting-In-Elections?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/iii8hS-7iMc/EPA-Quashed-Report-Skeptical-of-Global-Warming
theodp writes "CNET reports that less than two weeks before the EPA formally submitted its pro-carbon dioxide regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty 'decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data.' In an e-mail message (pdf) to a staff researcher on March 17, the EPA official wrote: 'The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward...and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision.' The employee was also ordered not to 'have any direct communication' with anyone outside his small group at EPA on the topic of climate change, and was informed his report would not be shared with the agency group working on the topic. In a statement, the EPA took aim at the credentials of the report's author, Alan Carlin (BS Physics-Caltech, PhD Econ-MIT), describing him as 'not a scientist.' BTW, the official who chastised Carlin also found himself caught up in a 2005 brouhaha over mercury emissions after top EPA officials ordered the findings of a Harvard University study stripped from public records."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/2314213/EPA-Quashed-Report-Skeptical-of-Global-Warming?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/27/2314213"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/2314213/EPA-Quashed-Report-Skeptical-of-Global-Warming?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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Hugh Pickens writes "Over the last couple of weeks, those who believe in the transformative power of technology to battle an oppressive state have pointed to Iran as a test case. However, as Farhad Manjoo writes on Slate, the real conclusion about news now coming out of Iran is that for regimes bent on survival, electronic dissent is easier to suppress than organizing methods of the past. Using a system installed last year, built in part by Nokia and Siemens, the government routes all digital traffic in the country through a single choke point, using the capabilities of deep packet inspection to monitor every e-mail, tweet, blog post, and possibly even every phone call placed in Iran. 'Compare that with East Germany, in which the Stasi managed to tap, at most, about 100,000 phone lines — a gargantuan task that required 2,000 full-time technicians to monitor the calls,' writes Manjoo. The effects of this control have been seen over the past couple days, with only a few harrowing pictures and videos getting through Iran's closed net. For most citizens, posting videos and even tweeting eyewitness accounts remains fraught with peril, and the same tools that activists use can be used by the government to spread disinformation. The government is also using crowdsourcing by posting pictures of protesters and asking citizens for help in identifying the activists. 'If you think about it, that's no surprise,' writes Manjoo. 'Who said that only the good guys get to use the power of the Web to their advantage?'"<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/0344230/The-Internet-Helps-Iran-Silence-Activists?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/27/0344230"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/06/27/0344230/The-Internet-Helps-Iran-Silence-Activists?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotPolitics/~3/s7GGXC3upFQ/US-House-May-Pass-Cap-amp-Trade-Bill
jamie found this roundup on the status of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, which is about to be voted on by the US House of Representatives. (The article notes that if the majority Democrats can't see the 218 votes needed for passage, they will probably put off the vote.) The AP has put together a FAQ that says, "[The bill, if passed,] fundamentally will change how we use, produce and consume energy, ending the country's love affair with big gas-guzzling cars and its insatiable appetite for cheap electricity. This bill will put smaller, more efficient cars on the road, swap smokestacks for windmills and solar panels, and transform the appliances you can buy for your home." The odds-makers are giving the bill a marginal chance of passing in the House, with tougher going expected in the Senate.<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/26/1237223/US-House-May-Pass-Cap-amp-Trade-Bill?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/26/1237223"></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/26/1237223/US-House-May-Pass-Cap-amp-Trade-Bill?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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Iranian state television's Channel Two is playing a Lord of the Rings marathon in an attempt to keep people inside watching hobbits and not protesting in the streets. Normally, people in Tehran are treated to one or two Hollywood movies a week, but with recent events the government hopes that sitting through a nine-hour trilogy will take the fight out of most of the protesters. Perhaps this was not the best choice in films if you want your people not to believe that "even the smallest person can change the course of the future."<p><a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/06/25/1535219/Iran-Tries-To-Pacify-Protesters-With-emLord-of-The-Ringsem-Marathon?from=rss"><img src="http://politics.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/06/25/1535219"></a></p><p><a href="http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/06/25/1535219/Iran-Tries-To-Pacify-Protesters-With-emLord-of-The-Ringsem-Marathon?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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