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Kazakh lawmakers back restrictive Internet law

Technology / Internet

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(AP) -- Kazakh lawmakers have approved Internet legislation that media rights activists say will limit freedom of speech in the Central Asian nation.


'Sexting' no worse than spin-the-bottle: study

'Sexting' no worse than spin-the-bottle: study

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4

Youths exchanging nude photos of themselves over cellphones, known as "sexting," should not face child pornography charges, as some have in the United States, a humanities conference heard Tuesday.


Craigslist announced Wednesday that it had filed suit against a state attorney general

Craigslist strikes back, files suit

Technology / Internet

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Craigslist announced Wednesday that it had filed suit against a state attorney general who has threatened criminal charges against the online classifieds site in a dispute over "erotic services" ads.


Research Shows an Incentive to Snitch Produces False Information

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The secondary confession - also known as snitching - is widely accepted as valid evidence in criminal prosecution. Yet, the first behavioral study to investigate whether people will provide false secondary ...





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More clarity needed on law of assisted suicide

More clarity needed on law of assisted suicide

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Doctors need more clarity on what they can and cannot do within the current law on assisted suicide, according to an editorial by Dr Richard Huxtable and Professor Karen Forbes in this week's ...


McKinnon, accused of hacking into US military and NASA computers, faces extradition to the United States

UFO-obsessed Briton loses bid to block US extradition

Technology / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA computers faces extradition to the United States after the British government Thursday rejected last-ditch requests to block the move.


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fMRI scans used in murder trial sentencing

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans have been used, possibly for the first time, in the sentencing phase of a murder trial in Chicago in the US.


Briton killed wife in sleep, court hears

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

British man killed his wife in his sleep, after dreaming that she was an intruder in their camper van, a court heard on Tuesday.


India fraud office to prosecute Satyam founder

Technology / Business

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

India's fraud office will file charges this month against the founder of outsourcer Satyam after he admitted to falsifying profits in the nation's biggest corporate fraud, a minister said Monday.


Prized mushroom collection returns to China

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.


BetOnSports.com founder gets 4-plus years

Technology / Internet

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The founder of the online gambling site BetOnSports.com was sentenced Monday to more than four years in prison, ending a lengthy investigation and prosecution into one of the world's largest offshore sports gambling ...


School sued for punishing teens over MySpace pix

Technology / Other

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 6

(AP) -- Two sophomore girls have sued their school district after they were punished for posting sexually suggestive photos on MySpace during their summer vacation.


Web marketer ordered to pay Facebook $711M damages

Technology / Internet

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.


Feds to issue new medical marijuana policy (AP)

Feds to stop prosecuting medical marijuana users (Update)

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(AP) -- Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by ...



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