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What place do immigrant workers have in Israel?
Jan 4, 2011
Israel's labor and demographic numbers indicate that Israel doesn't really need foreign workers. But there are still hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. Marketplace's Alisa Roth reports from Tel Aviv.
What now: Writing the laws of financial reform
Jan 4, 2011
Commentator Bethany McLean has some advice for the writers of the the laws of the Frank-Dodd financial reform and also to Congress and financiers who may influence over the laws are shaped.
Phones in prisons
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John Moe
Jan 3, 2011
The New York Times reports on the growing number of smartphones in prisons, where phones are a federal felony that comes with a sentence of an...
Paul Allen renews lawsuit against everyone everywhere for doing everything
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John Moe
Dec 29, 2010
The Microsoft co-founder has been actively suing the following companies for a while now: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo,...
Man reads wife's email, now faces five years in prison
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John Moe
Dec 27, 2010
Leon Walker snooped in his wife's Gmail account - used her password, logged on and started reading. From the Detroit Free Press:...
Colorado suing settlement advance companies for high interest rates
Dec 25, 2010
Settlement advance companies take a gamble on lawsuits, advancing people money for a lawsuit and not asking anything in return if the person loses. But the advance money comes with high interest rates that violate Colorado's limits, and so the attorney general is suing.
WTF: the Wikileaks Task Force at the CIA
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John Moe
Dec 22, 2010
Yes, that's what they're really calling it. Works out since it's both the acronym of the name of the task force and what CIA employees are saying...
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Net Neutrality react - there will be challenges to this plan
Dec 22, 2010
In a 3-2 vote, the FCC voted to adopt new rules about how broadband and wireless carriers treat web traffic and services. A lot of people are...
Philosophical DDoS attacks are not the exclusive province of Wikileaks
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John Moe
Dec 22, 2010
Our friends at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society say that the number of online attacks intended to shut down human rights groups'...
Looks like net neut is a done deal ... for now
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John Moe
Dec 21, 2010
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has the votes to pass his net neutrality plan. The FCC is scheduled to vote today on this plan. Here's an excerpt...