Open Systems Journal

In an age when everyone is following everything, is it ever possible to disappear? On Aug. 13, one man drove out of San Francisco determined to stay hidden in plain sight and test this possibility.

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The web is watching you, and it’s doing it using browser cookies — small snippets of tracking code. Do away with them to be free of watchers, and annoy the heck out of Big Brother too.

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Readers offer their best tips for updating Remember the Milk with Gmail’s canned responses, avoiding mouse jumps while typing with touchpads, and repelling mosquitoes with Listerine.
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Please don’t feed the spammers
The US Food and Drug Administration said it has completed a sweep of illegal online pharmacies that targeted 136 websites that appeared to be illegally selling drugs to American consumers.…
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Dan Glickman, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, is complaining to Congress that those who don’t support a proposed international intellectual-property treaty are “hostile toward efforts to improve copyright enforcement worldwide.”

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Probes Wikipedia, YouTube and Google
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Windows only: Firefox extension MinimizeToTray Revived is a replacement for the popular MinimizeToTray extension that has been abandoned and doesn’t support Firefox 3 or later, and puts Firefox in your system tray with
Once you’ve installed the extension, Firefox will start minimizing directly to the system tray, though there are lots of choices in the options [...]

AP - Consumers who haven’t yet ordered Barnes & Noble’s electronic book reader, the Nook, won’t see one before Christmas.,B&N Nook sells out, too late for holiday orders
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Publisher of Government Technology, Public CIO and Emergency Management extends coverage of state and local government market with announced acquisition of Governing magazine.

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Malaria has begun showing troubling signs of developing resistance to artemisinin, which is currently the best available treatment for the disease.

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