bitrex writes “Modern Mechanix recently ran a reprint of a 1934 article describing the problem of offshore pirate radio stations broadcasting advertisements and drowning out local, licensed radio programs. ‘The primary purpose of the unlicensed broadcast station was to advertise the gambling, liquor, and other dubious pleasure activities of the ship upon which it was built … they found other sundry rackets, such as a fortune telling program … After numerous unsuccessful attempts of a local nature, the floating broadcasting establishment was silenced, but only after the say department at Washington, D. C, had made diplomatic representations which forced a Central American country to cancel the ship’s registry.’ The article also has a great artist’s conception of what might be called a machine age ‘data haven’ bobbing in international waters in the Gulf of Mexico.”

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We’re big fans of RSS readers — of either the stand alone or web based variety — but it if you want to scan a lot of headlines from a lot of different sites, a feed reader is not always the fastest (or most convenient, if you are on a public computer) way to access that information.

This is where Alltop.com comes in. Alltop.com is a new site that displays RSS headlines from a variety of different sites, sorted by category, all on one page. Hover your mouse pointer over a headline to read a description/excerpt. It’s very, very slick.

One of the things we like the most about the site is the layout. For each site in a given category, the five most recent headlines are listed. The page is split into three columns, so you can instantly look at lots of different headlines, but at the same time, not feel overwhelmed by text.

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Filed under: Finance, Internet, E-mail, Web services, Social Software, Beta, web 2.0

How many web pages do you login to each day? There’s your email accounts, social networking sites, bank and credit card web sites, on the internet stores, and entertainment web sites. That’s a lot of passwords and URLs to remember. PageOnce aims to make things a lot easier by letting you view all of your on the internet accounts in one place.

The site is in private beta, but if you visit TechCrunch, you might be able to score an invite today.

As soon as you’ve got your account up and running you can start adding online services to your PageOnce homepage by clicking the “Add Content” button. Up pops a window with a handful of popular services like Facebook, MySpace, Gmail, Yahoo!, Blockbuster, and Netflix. But PageOnce doesn’t stop there. You can also associate your login information for airlines or travel services like American Airlines or Travelocity. And you can add your bank account information too.

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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Five UK students who were charged under the UK’s 2000 Terrorism Act for possession of jihadist materials were acquitted after the jury found that, while they’d downloaded the materials, there was no evidence that they were planning any sort of crime. The Lord Chief Justice was quoted as saying, ‘Difficult questions of interpretation have been raised in this case by the attempt by the prosecution to use [this law] for a purpose for which it wasn’t intended.’”

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duerra writes “A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns. The plan is in the final stage of completion, according to a department official who requested anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to talk publicly about it. While some internal agencies have had access to spy satellite imagery for purposes such as assisting after a natural disaster, this would be the first time law-enforcement would be able to obtain a warrant and request access to satellite imagery.”

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Dotnaught writes “Backed by a study that states teens show more respect for copyrights when told of possible jail time for infringement, Microsoft is launching a new intellectual property curriculum to educate kids about IP law. To support its teachings, Microsoft has launched MyBytes, a Web site where students can create custom ringtones, share content — “their own content,” as Microsoft makes clear — and learn more about intellectual property rights.”

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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “Reps Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chip Pickering (R-MS) introduced the ‘Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008′ (HR 5353) this week. The proposed legislation [PDF] wouldn’t legislate what’s and isn’t ‘neutral’. Instead, it would add a section to the ‘Broadband Policy’ section of the Communications Act which spells out principles the FCC is expected to uphold, in addition to having them hold summits which would ‘assess competition, consumer protection, and consumer choice issues related to broadband World wide web access services’ and make it simple for citizens to submit comments or complaints on the web.”

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BobB writes to mention Sun has acquired Innotek, open source desktop virtualization vendor. “VirtualBox will remain free of charge under Sun and be placed in the company’s xVM portfolio of virtualization products, Steve Wilson, Sun’s vice president of xVM, wrote in a blog posting. ‘If we’re going to continue to give it away, why is Sun investing in VirtualBox? In short, because the developers that build applications have a big amount of influence on how they’re deployed,” Wilson wrote in his blog. “We believe that developers using VirtualBox can help guide their friends in the data center towards xVM Server as the preferred deployment engine. Beyond that, I think there’s a huge opportunity to link with Sun’s other developer-related assets like NetBeans, Glassfish and (soon) MySQL.’”

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eweekhickins writes to share an article in eWeek highlighting the forgotten risks that a multifunction printer could possibly offer. Brendan O’Connor first called attention to the vulnerabilities of these new devices at a Black Hat speak in ‘06 and warns that these are no longer “dumb” machine sitting in the corner and should be treated with their own respective security strategy. “During his Black Hat presentation in 2006, O’Connor picked apart the security model of a Xerox WorkCentre MFP, showing how the device operated more like a low-end server or workstation than a copier or printer–complete with an AMD processor, 256MB of SDRAM and an 80GB hard drive and running Linux, Apache and PostGreSQL. He showed how the authentication on the device’s Web interface can be easily bypassed to launch commands to completely hijack a new Xerox WorkCentre machine.”

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