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Barack Obama Wins US Presidency
ICANN Might Pre-Register gTLDs To Placate Critics
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the Economy
EFF Says Obama Warrantless Wiretap Defense Is Worse than Bush
Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College
Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War
Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition?
Bill Joy For New National CTO Post?
Lame Duck Challenge Ends With Free Codeweavers Software For All
$700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law
Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Health Care
New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads
Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat
Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System
Discuss the US Presidential Election
Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education
US CTO Choice Down To a Two-Horse Race
Can Static Electricity Generate Votes?
Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality
Karl Rove Resigning Aug 31
Norway Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing
Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide
French Assembly Rejects Three Strikes Bill
Microsoft Bids To Take Over Open Document Format
Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US
Skype Messages Monitored In China
YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure
Internet Co-inventor Vint Cerf Endorses Obama
Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera)
US Senate & House Create YouTube Channels
Best Super Tuesday Candidate for Technology?
Press Favored Obama Throughout Campaign
RIAA and BSA's Lawyers Taking Top Justice Posts
Israel, Palestine Wage Web War
Gov't Computers Used to Find Info on "Joe the Plumber"
Obama Looking To Symantec CEO For Commerce
Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site
Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online
10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web"
McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama
UK Government Boosts Open Source Adoption
Political Sites Scale Up For Election Traffic
Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President
Russian Police Seize Kasparov
McCain Asks Supporters To Campaign On Blogs
White House Wins Ruling On E-mail Records
U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat
McCain Backs Nuclear Power
Lessig Launches Open Transition Principles
Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban
Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates
Best Presidential Candidate, Democrats
Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans
85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship
Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows
Australians Running On-Line Poll Based Senators
Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination
Bill Ready To Ban ISP Caps In the US
Bioethics Group Raises DNA Database Concerns
Blog Action Day
Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices
Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal
Comcast Proposes Self Regulation and P2P Bill of Rights
Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
Dodd, Feingold To Try and Filibuster Immunity Bill
G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Piracy
Governments Prepare for Cyber Cold War
Hacking the Presidential Election
How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be?
How To Beat Congress's Ban Of Humans On Mars
Internet Pranks in Schools
Iran Blocks, Unblocks Access to Google
Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement
McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire
McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire
Measuring the "Colbert Bump"
Microsoft Redefines "Open Standards"
National Archives Cuts Back On Web Site Archiving
Obama's Evolving Stance On NASA
Obama's MySpace Drama
Prediction Markets and the 2008 Electoral Map
Presidential Candidates and Online Privacy
Redistricting Videogame Shows Problems in the System
Siemens, Nokia Helped Provide Iran's Censoring Tech
Super Tuesday, McCain Leads Reps, Dems Undecided
Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today
Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites
The Coming Digital Presidency
The Ridiculous LexisNexis Search that the Justice Department Used
Twitter As a Campaigning Tool
US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia
US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris
United Nations vs SQL Injections
Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade"
Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras
The Privacy Candidate
North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket
Canada Election Result Bad News For DMCA Opponents
US Attorney General Questions Habeas Corpus
Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs
National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit
How We Used To Vote
McCain Campaign Protests YouTube's DMCA Policy
Diebold Election Audit Logs Defective
Conflict of Interest May Taint DTV Delay Proposal
Judge Suppresses Report On Voting Systems
Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax
US House Kills Proposed Delay For Digital TV Transition
Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband
Net Neutrality Act On the Agenda Again
In UK, 12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick
Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot
Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security
MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events
Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown
Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL
Colbert Ballot Bid Shot Down
NYT Editorial Slams ISPs Over Online Freedom
C-SPAN Adopts Creative Commons-Style License
Scott Adams's Political Survey of Economists
FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus
Names of Advisors Cleared To Access ACTA Documents
Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV?
Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post
Malaysian Blogger On Trial For Sedition
Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA?
Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin
Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation
UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google
Permanent Links For US Legislation Documents
SCOTUS Says EPA Can Regulate Carbon
White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed
Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report
Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia
Report Indicates Widespread H-1B Visa Fraud
EU Commissioner Slams Music Lock-In
Anonymous Blogger Outed By Politician
Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear
Anti-Terrorist Data Mining Doesn't Work Very Well
Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter
Voters In Many States Must Register By October 6
Why We Need Unlicensed White-Space Broadband Spectrum
Smart Immigrants Going Home
Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention
Congressman Wants Health Warnings On Video Games
Congress Members Who Took RIAA Cash
Genetically Modified Maize Is Toxic — Greenpeace
Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA
Obama Recommends Delay In Digital TV Switch
New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"
Canadians Plan Robot Sub Missions To Aid Claim For Arctic
Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes
Irish Gov't Seeks To Rein In Cyber Bullying
Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws
McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments
New Map of Carved Up Arctic
Obama, McCain Campaigns Both Hacked, Files Compromised
Ohio Sues Over Missing Electronic Votes
Microsoft Says H-1B Workers Among Those Losing Jobs
UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition
WV Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes
Man Denied Right To Vote Because He Won't Use Computer
Cities View Red Light Cameras As Profit Centers
More Websites Offending Thai Monarchy Blocked
Sen. Ted Stevens Introduces "Son of DOPA"
ICANN Responds To gTLD Plan Comments
Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs
McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry PDAs
Obama's Impending NASA Decisions
French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu
Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day
US House Limits Constituent Emails
Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War?
How To Supplement Election Coverage?
Pentagon Manipulating TV Analysts
E-Voting Reform Bill Gaining Adherants
FCC Votes Yet Another Study of Net Neutrality
Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash
U.S. Attorney General Resigns
CA Proposes Rigorous Voting Machine Testing
Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case
ISPs Fight To Keep Broadband Gaps Secret
John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked"
Senators Smack Down WIPO Broadcast Treaty
Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads
Battlestar Galactica Hosted At the UN
Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug
Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
Avoiding the Word "Evolution"
YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK
White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity
Source Control For Bills In Congress?
Aging Nuclear Stockpile Good For Decades To Come
Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning
Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked
Democrats, Minority Groups Question Net Neutrality Push
Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House
Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2
Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill