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Legacy of W: You're the Decider

History will soon take the measure of the presidency of George W. Bush. Help shape the first draft with this interactive tool that lets you submit your analysis of Bush 43. ...

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Wired: Politics — 2 hours ago

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Amazon.com Tossed Into Pirate Bay Jungle

A Firefox browser add-on provides users with a "download 4 free" button on Amazon.com searches. Clicking the button redirects to The Pirate Bay, an illicit torrent tracker, where the merchandise can be downloaded for free, if available. Amazon, threatening legal sanctions, got the websi...

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Wired: Politics — 3 hours ago

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Darpa's Battlefield Dream: Tell Me a Story

Drone feeds, informant tips, news reports, captured phone calls -- sometimes, a battlefield commander gets so much information, it's hard to make sense of it all. So Darpa is looking to distill all that data into something "more suitable for human consumption." Namely, a story. One told...

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Wired: Politics — 9 hours ago

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Copper Thieves Threaten U.S. Infrastructure, FBI says

The FBI releases a unclassified report detailing U.S. crop failures, power outages and tornado-siren warning failures due to copper thieves getting huge returns for their crimes. The report, however, is released the day global mining stocks tumble as mining operations announced cutbacks and a 50 ...

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Wired: Politics — 23 hours ago

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Hackers, Others Seek DMCA Exemptions

The U.S. Copyright Office has received nine requests for exemptions to anti-hacking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Among them, they include making it legal to hack digital rights management protection on movies, music and videos for backup and research purposes. Another allow...

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Wired: Politics — Yesterday

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Analyst: Use Lasers on Pirates (and Everyone Else)

Well-known defense analyst James Jay Carafano has a solution to the pirate crisis: lasers. That's not surprising, considering his answer to every security question — from Russian mortars to Hezbollah missiles to jihadists' bombs to pirates' boats — lies in lasers and other so-call...

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Wired: Politics — Before yesterday