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Protect Your Laptop Data from Everyone, Even YourselfLast year, I wrote about the increasing propensity for governments, including the U.S. and Great Britain, to search the contents of people's laptops at customs. What we know is still based on anecdote, as no country has clarified the rules about what their customs officers are and are not allo... |
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How Science Fiction Writers Can Help, or Hurt, Homeland SecurityA couple of years ago, the Department of Homeland Security hired a bunch of science fiction writers to come in for a day and think of ways terrorists could attack America. If our inability to prevent 9/11 marked a failure of imagination, as some said at the time, then who better than science fic... |
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Games Without Frontiers: 'MadWorld' Is Black and White and Awesome All OverWhile visiting Bungie Studios as its developers finished work on Halo 3 two years ago, I saw something very interesting. Occasionally, to help debug the videogame, they'd play a level in wire-frame mode — where all the environments and characters were rendered onscreen as glowing outlines... |
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It's Time to Drop the 'Expectation of Privacy' TestIn the United States, the concept of "expectation of privacy" matters because it's the constitutional test, based on the Fourth Amendment, that governs when and how the government can invade your privacy. Based on the 1967 Katz v. United States Supreme Court decision, this test actu... |
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In Praise of the 3-Hour GameWhen The Maw was released at the end of January, critics raved. The game had everything: cute, Pixar-like graphics, charming lead characters and a kooky game mechanic — you control a bloblike sidekick that devours enemies, getting gradually bigger (and weirder) with each chew. What's not to... |
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Getting Lucky: Hard-Core Gamers Penetrate Peggle's PhysicsWhen you play the game Peggle, do you think everything is left up to luck, or skill? As it turns out, the answer to this question might say a lot about the nature of gamers -- and what makes someone a casual or hard-core player. In case you haven't heard of Peggle, it's a title th... |
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