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Could Too Much Transparency Lead to Sunburn?

Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 8:05 am, Over one day old
But it also seems likely that this release of data, by making it overwhelmingly convenient to unearth the salary of any government worker in Houston, will have a raft of side effects—where by “side” I mean that they weren’t intended by the Chronicle.

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Viacom, YouTube, and the Dangerous Assembly of Facts

Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 4:04 am, Over one day old
Viacom asked for, and judge Louis L. Stanton ordered Google to turn over, the logs of each viewing of all videos in the YouTube database, showing the username and IP address of the user who was viewing the video, a timestamp, and a code identifying the video.

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Vendor misinformation in the e-voting world

Posted Tuesday July 1, 2008, 6:14 am, Over one day old
While there are procedures with the capability to detect many of these attacks (e.g., post-election auditing of voter-verified paper records), Texas has not certified such equipment for use in the state.  Texas’s DREs are simply vulnerable to and undefended against attacks.

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Newspapers? Problem: Trouble Targeting Ads

Posted Monday June 30, 2008, 5:04 am, Over one day old
As for the claim that poor or disadvantaged communities are more easily reached offline than on, it still faces the objection that television is a much more efficient way of reaching large audiences than newsprint.

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The End of Theory? Not Likely

Posted Thursday June 26, 2008, 5:48 am, Over one day old
An essay in the new Wired, “ The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete,” argues that we won’t need scientific theories any more, now that we have so much stored information and such great tools for analyzing it. We need the scientific method.

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Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law

Posted Tuesday June 24, 2008, 3:40 am, Over one day old
And if you did find such a law, how would you determine whether it had been repealed or amended later, or how courts had interpreted it? Generally, the laws themselves (statutes and court opinions) are not copyrightable, but extra-value content such as summaries and indices can be copyrighted.

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New bill advances open data, but could be better for reuse

Posted Wednesday June 11, 2008, 4:33 am, Over one day old
Senators Obama and Coburn have introduced the Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in Federal Spending Act of 2008 (S. 3077), which would modify their 2006 transparency act. That first bill created USASpending.gov, a searchable web site of government outlays.

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Study Shows DMCA Takedowns Based on Inconclusive Evidence

Posted Friday June 6, 2008, 4:40 am, Over one day old
The authors of the study received more than 400 spurious takedown notices. Whether or not copyright owners can send warnings based on inconclusive evidence, the notification letters they actually send imply that there is strong evidence of infringement.

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NJ Election Day: Voting Machine Status

Posted Tuesday June 3, 2008, 3:39 am, Over one day old
(The presidential primary was Feb. Recall that some Sequoia machines reported discrepancies in the presidential primary on Feb. 5, and Sequoia said that these happened when poll workers accidentally pressed buttons on the operator panel that were supposed to be unused.

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Government Data and the Invisible Hand

Posted Monday June 2, 2008, 4:03 am, Over one day old
But the situation to which these candidates are responding — the wide gap between the exciting uses of Internet technology by private parties, on the one hand, and the government’s lagging technical infrastructure on the other — is not new.

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