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FBI DNA database: Next Generation combined DNA Index System now on its way
Timing couldn’t have been worse – with the Military Commissions Act of 2006 just signed out- the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that the FBI has today awarded a contract to develop the NGCODIS (next-generation combined DNA index system) to a group of providers. Unisys together with IBM, government service provider iSYS LLC and two [...]
Military Commissions Act: Yay, Nay who voted what?
Those of you American citizens that would like to know who is so freely giving away your civil rights should check the BORDC website. Currently only the Senate voting record is online but the house voting from yesterday should be available soon. More on the Military Commissions Act of 2006: UK’s highly popular website The [...]
The Economist: On issues with US voting machines
In his last edition top European business and political magazine The Economist has an interesting brief article on US voting machines.Crash and re-boot, that’s how the article is titled, is looking into how the wrong kind of voting machines could bring chaos to the mid-term elections. Even the Economist that rarely is using stronger wording [...]
China: Censors open some access to Wikipedia (Access chart)
After having blocked access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for almost a year completely, China has now started to open up some parts of it. With the help of bloggers and Wikipedians across China Andrew Lih has created a chart of Wikipedia reachability from within China. The English language version (en.wp) is now widely accessible [...]
