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Vendredi, 13 Janvier 2012 06:01

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 13

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.

SPOILER WARNING:
We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!

Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to...

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Vendredi, 13 Janvier 2012 01:21

Leahy Offers to Remove Net-Altering DNS Redirects in Anti-Piracy Bill

Sen. Patrick Leahy says he'll consider removing mandated DNS-redirects from the Protect IP Act. Photo: AP

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said Thursday he is having second thoughts on a major provision of a bill he is sponsoring that would force changes to internet infrastructure to fight online copyright and trademark infringement.

The legislation under the Protect IP Act mandates that ISPs alter records in the net’s system for looking up website names, known as DNS, so that Americans couldn’t navigate to sites the attorney general deems are infringing. Critics, including some of the net’s leadi...

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