'The suspect in the twin attacks in Norway has been identified as Anders Behring B., a 32-year-old Christian fundamentalist with anti-Islamic views. A police officer who described B. as "cold as ice" said the suspect had no known links to Norway's neo-Nazi scene.
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Police have identified the man who killed at least 91 people in twin attacks in Norway on Friday as Anders Behring B., a 32-year-old Christian with conservative and nationalistic views. B., who had a gun permit for a Glock pistol and an automatic rifle, apparently lived with his mother in a nondescript four-story brick building in the west of Oslo.

A special police unit raided B.'s apartment around 11 p.m. on Friday. According to investigations by Norwegian media, B. was a right-wing extremist who had repeatedly made anti-Islamic statements on Internet forums. Six days before the attacks, he sent his first and only message from his Twitter account. It read: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests" -- a quote from the British philosopher John Stuart Mill.'

B.'s Facebook page, which was taken offline late on Friday evening, featured a photograph of the suspect, who has wavy blond hair, a square jaw and blue eyes, looking off into the distance. B. apparently played the computer game "World of Warcraft" and was a member of a shooting club in Oslo. A childhood friend of the suspect told the Norwegian tabloid VG that B. had begun to talk about right-wing extremist ideas when he was in his late 20s. B. also maintained a racist profile on Facebook, the friend said. B. had served in the Norwegian army but had no other known connections to the military. He had also not come to the attention of the police, apart from a minor traffic offense 10 years ago, VG reported.'

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe...

Jailbreaking Officially Granted DMCA Exemption

Dan Moren, Macworld
Jul 26, 2010 2:00 pm

If you jailbreak your iPhone to add third-party software, you can do so with the comfort of knowing you aren't violating copyright laws, after a federal ruling came down on Monday.

The U.S. Librarian of Congress ruled on Monday that consumers who circumvent digital protections on smartphones to install unapproved applications--a practice often colloquially known as "jailbreaking"--for noninfringing reasons should be exempted from prosecution under the anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

The proposed exemption on jailbreaking was first put forth in 2008 by the Electronic Freedom Foundation, which argued that users should be allowed to jailbreak their phones to install, for personal use, legally acquired third-party software. Apple, for its part, argued against the exemption in an extensive filing contending that an exemption for jailbreaking would lead to more widespread piracy and additional support costs for the company. Two software developers, the Mozilla Corporation and Skype Communications, filed documents in support of the EFF's argument.

The DMCA specifically prohibits the circumvention of copy-protection technology such as Digital Rights Management (DRM). Every three years, however, the Librarian of Congress--on recommendation of the Register of Copyrights--issues a ruling on classes of materials that are exempt from that stipulation for noninfringing uses. The rulings expire after three years, meaning that the previous exemptions granted in 2006, 2003, and 2000 are no longer valid today. The other exemptions granted by the Librarian on Monday allow circumvention of protections for copyrighted material on DVD for educators, documentary filmmakers, and noncommercial videos; software to allow phones to connect to cellphone networks; breaking video game protection measures for the purposes of testing; obsolete computer programs requiring a dongle that is broken; and e-books where protections prevent the use of screen readers and read-aloud functions.

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http://www.pcworld.com/article/201897/jail...

Linked from WP blog, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now /

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'Hunter-Killer Teams' and the Etheridge Video

By Robert Stacy McCain on 6.14.10 @ 1:54PM

"Notice they're always in twos," said a conservative operative whom I called to ask about the video confrontation in which Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) accosted a college student who attempted to ask him a question.

The operative, who has been responsible for numerous undercover ("black ops") political projects, compared the two students to a military "hunter-killer team" -- the tandem of a sniper and a spotter. The operative did not want to disclose the tactics and strategy of such projects, but said that we can expect to see more video confrontations during what Mike Flynn of BigGovernment.com predicts will be a "long hot summer."

Dave Weigel of the Washington Post is keenly interested in learning the identity and affiliation of the student video "hunter-killer team" that confronted Etheridge who, as Paul Chesser notes, has already apologized for the assault. (Understatement of the year: "A poor response.") Both the National Republican Congressional Committee and the campaign of Etheridge's opponent, Renee Ellmers, have denied involvement.


http://spectator.org/blog/2010/06/14/hunte...

NASHVILLE - Almost one in five of Benton County's voters got a letter in February saying their registration was invalid, triggering events that led last week to a call for a TBI investigation and a battle in the Legislature.

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The brewing legislative battle is over a Democrat-sponsored bill, awaiting floor votes in both the House and Senate this week, that declares that when a voter registration form is accepted by election officials, it cannot be declared invalid for some minor omission - unless fraud was involved or the omission was the voter's signature.

Christine Borchert, filling out a form to change her voter registration address back in 1963, failed to check the "yes" box beside a question asking if she was a citizen of the United States. She has voted in virtually every election in the 47 years since. The same form had a place for the voter to state his or her place of birth. She had written in Benton County, Tenn., which Rep. Borchert observes, "is in the United States."

Rep. Borchert says that, going by primary voting records, about 68 percent of the voters threatened with invalidation are Democrats. He won his last election by 344 votes and this year faces a rematch with the same Republican opponent, Timothy Wirgau. "They (Republicans) think that, if they can knock enough Democrats off the rolls, they can beat me this time," he said.

More:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/apr/25/r...