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iPhone hackers seem to have discovered that all of the applications run as root. In the world of Windows, that’s no big deal. In the world of Unix, it’s unheard of. As Andrew Shebanow points out, it also explains why third party developers aren’t yet allowed to publish iPhone applications.

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Remember when Alberto Gonzales said that there have been no cases of civil liberties abuse with National Security Letters? Turns out that’s not true, and Gonzales knew it wasn’t true. It’s pathetic that nearly all of federal law enforcement reports to this guy.

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Shas, a far-right Israeli political party, is trying to pass legislation that would restrict access to certain content to adults who sign up for a special license. The content is the type of stuff that all politicians seem to want to censor. Needless to say, such a bill would require the implementation of a new [...]

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I read that at Google, engineers create a design document for just about every project they work on. It led me to think about how I might incorporate design documents into my usual work practices. I’m looking for processes for teams of one or a few people. Here’s what I hope to get out of [...]

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One of the weird things about blogging is that while I would hope that the various criticisms (constructive and otherwise) that I post would someday be read by the subjects of criticism, I never actually expect that it will happen. Is Dick Cheney ever going to swing by and decide to quite promoting torture because [...]

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Walt Mossberg zeroes in on one of my iPhone gripes:

Unlike on a BlackBerry or Treo, the iPhone doesn’t allow you to delete whole groups of email en masse by date, or even to select large groups and then delete them en masse. This would be a good feature for Apple to add down [...]

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An economic experiment confirms the effect of testosterone on decision making.

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Bruce Schneier posts a link to a paper that shows that terrorists fail to achieve their political objectives almost entirely. Terrorists succeed in killing people, scaring people, and pissing people off, but they don’t succeed in achieving the political change that they hope for. Clausewitz famously said that war is politics by other means, and [...]

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I’m not surprised to read that Google acquired GrandCentral. GrandCentral provides a single phone number that will reach you anywhere, and a single voice mail box to go with it. I haven’t used GrandCentral, but I did use a similar service from CallWave right up until my iPhone was activated. (I wonder who’s going to [...]

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eMusic Radio is a cool tool that enables you to listen to Internet radio and view the eMusic downloads associated with whatever’s playing on the radio at the same time.

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