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		<title>Send a Spam, Pay a Fine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, its about time &#8230;
Ars Technica reports that two MySpace spammers have been given the largest fine in the history of the too-weak CAN-SPAM law:
The US District Court for the Central District of California made a default judgment against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines for using MySpace to send more than 700,000 spam messages to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/05/16/send-a-spam-pay-a-fine/</link>
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		<title>Adults, Get Off the Swingsets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It should be unnecessary to say it, but adults should monitor children&#8217;s activities, not engage in them.  
The AP reports on a 49 year old woman indicted for initiating a hoax on MySpace that led to a 13 year old&#8217;s death.  The alleged reason for the hoax?  To find out if the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/05/16/adults-get-off-the-swingsets/</link>
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		<title>DRM: Time for Legislation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not being one to call for legislation very often, I would much rather see a market-based solution to the problem of Digital Rights Management (DRM), the 1984-esque term that really means &#8220;crippled and limited&#8221;.  But I fear it may be too late.
DRM is really copy protection for video and audio, and like the efforts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/04/23/drm-time-for-legislation/</link>
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		<title>Ah, Tax Time, When Everyone is a Republican</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, we&#8217;re faced with the complexity of the tax code.  For ordinary wage earners, it should not be this difficult.  
The withholding rules are screwy enough that we are once again getting a small refund from the Federal Income Tax and paying about the same amount to our California State Income Tax. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/04/14/ah-tax-time-when-everyone-is-a-republican/</link>
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		<title>Digital Music and the Wired Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting to build a modest, entry-level audio system with an eye toward leveraging the ease of using digital music.  Rather than swapping CDs in and out of the player, a &#8220;music server&#8221; can play songs stored on your computer through your stereo.  There are a few things I&#8217;ve learned that I&#8217;ll pass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/04/01/digital-music-and-the-wired-home/</link>
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		<title>Mac OS X Compromised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a contest offering up to $20,000 to the first security expert able to hack into the latest version of Apple&#8217;s Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Vista or Ubuntu Linux, a firm named Independent Security Evaluators took the prize by picking off Mac OS X:
Charlie Miller, principal analyst with Independent Security Evaluators and the researcher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/03/31/mac-os-x-compromised/</link>
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		<title>Christian Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Virginia, there are Christians who accept evolution.  The entire Catholic church, for example.
Even among American Protestants, the majority of denominations accept that science has determined that evolution happened.  Its one of the basic underpinnings of most of the biological sciences, and its not even an issue in most religious circles.  So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/03/24/christian-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Easter Morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, wait a minute &#8230; this tomb is empty!
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		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/03/23/easter-morning/</link>
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		<title>Easter is Early this Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Easter seemed like it was coming a bit early this year:

A Once in a lifetime experience!
Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20 this year- Some years it is March 21). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/03/21/easter-is-early-this-year/</link>
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		<title>DC Gun Case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supremes are considering the 2nd Amendment directly for the first time in some 70 years, and from the questions they asked, there seems to be no question that there is an individual right to bear arms in our Constitution.  It looks like, rather than questioning if the right exists, the justices will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.frankhagan.com/blog/2008/03/20/dc-gun-case/</link>
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