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Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California
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| The annual college textbook rush starts this month, a time of reckoning for
| many students who will struggle to cover eye-popping costs of $128, $156,
| even $198 a volume.
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| Caltech economics professor R. Preston McAfee finds it annoying that students
| and faculty haven't looked harder for alternatives to the exorbitant prices.
| McAfee wrote a well-regarded open-source economics textbook and gave it
| away -- online. But although the text, released in 2007, has been adopted at
| several prestigious colleges, including Harvard and Claremont-McKenna, it has
| yet to make a dent in the wider textbook market.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-textbook18-2008aug18,0,4987830.story
Won't be long until some cogressperson is bribed to put a stop to this.
U.S. at risk of cyberattacks, experts say
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| The next large-scale military or terrorist attack on the United States, if
| and when it happens, may not involve airplanes or bombs or even intruders
| breaching American borders.
| Cyberattackers shut down one Georgian government site and defaced another
| with images of Adolf Hitler.
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| Instead, such an assault may be carried out in cyberspace by shadowy hackers
| half a world a way. And Internet security experts believe that it could be
| just as devastating to the U.S.'s economy and infrastructure as a deadly
| bombing.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/18/cyber.warfare/index.html?eref=rss_tech
Days ago:
Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11
And An i-Patriot Act
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| Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans
| to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater
| restrictions and control over the web.
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| Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law Professor from Stanford University told an
| audience at this years Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay,
| California, that "There’s going to be an i-9/11 event" which will act as a
| catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the internet.
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| Lessig also revealed that he had learned, during a dinner with former
| government Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke, that there is already in
| existence a cyber equivalent of the Patriot Act, an "i-Patriot Act" if you
| will, and that the Justice Department is waiting for a cyber terrorism event
| in order to implement its provisions.
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http://www.infowars.net/articles/august2008/050808i911.htm
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