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Hastert Launches A Partisan Policy (washingtonpost.com) |
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Topic: Politics and Law |
12:23 pm EST, Nov 27, 2004 |
] In scuttling major intelligence legislation that he, the ] president and most lawmakers supported, Speaker J. Dennis ] Hastert last week enunciated a policy in which Congress ] will pass bills only if most House Republicans back them, ] regardless of how many Democrats favor them. Hastert supports "the majority of the majority", only. Hastert Launches A Partisan Policy (washingtonpost.com) |
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Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle? | CNET News.com |
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Topic: Politics and Law |
10:41 pm EST, Nov 6, 2003 |
] The Federal Communications Commission took a historic ] step this week toward limiting piracy of digital ] television signals, enacting regulations that will affect ] not only consumer-electronics manufacturers, but Silicon ] Valley companies as well. Declan McCullagh's News.Com article on the broadcast flag. ] Three computer hardware makers contacted by CNET ] News.com on Wednesday said that the FCC's order ] would require them to redesign or stop selling their ] current products. ] "This was designed to absolutely kill the computer," said ] Cliff Watson, a senior engineer at Digital Connection, a ] small business in Huntington Beach, Calif., that sells an ] HDTV PCI card. "It will kill the computer because the ] actual implementation of the ruling is so bloody restrictive." Are PCs next in Hollywood piracy battle? | CNET News.com |
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Wired 11.04: The Secret War Machine (Bruce Sterling) |
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Topic: Politics and Law |
8:21 pm EST, Apr 2, 2003 |
] But the real success story is the Contras, or rather ] their modern successor: al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden's crew ] is a band of government-funded anticommunist ] counterrevolutionaries who grew up and cut the apron ] strings. These new-model Contras don't need state support ] from Washington, Moscow, or any Accessory of Evil. Like ] Project Democracy, they've got independent financing: oil ] money, charity money, arms money, and a collection plate ] wherever a junkie shoots up in an alley. Instead of ] merely ignoring and subverting governments for a higher ] cause, as Poindexter did, al Qaeda tries to destroy them ] outright. Suicide bombers blew the Chechnyan provisional ] puppet government sky high. Cars packed with explosives ] nearly leveled the Indian Parliament. We all know what ] happened to the Pentagon. ] ] The next Iran-Contra is waiting, because the ] contradictions that created the first have never been ] resolved. Iran-Contra wasn't about eager American ] intelligence networks spreading dirty money in distant ] lands; it was about the gap between old, legitimate, ] land-based governments ruled by voters and the new, ] stateless, globalized predation. The next scandal will ] erupt when someone as molten, self-righteous, and ] frustrated as John Poindexter uses stateless power for ] domestic advantage. That's the breaking point in American ] politics: not when you call in the plumbers, but when you ] turn them loose on the opposition party. Then the Empire ] roils in a lather of sudden, indignant fury and strikes ] back against its own. Wired 11.04: The Secret War Machine (Bruce Sterling) |
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LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age - Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet |
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Topic: Politics and Law |
2:56 pm EST, Mar 2, 2003 |
] A journalist attends the World Economic Forum and writes ] her friends an email about the experience. Two weeks ] later, that email is on the Web, people she's never met ] are correcting her spelling, and the journalist is vowing ] to go back to longhand. ] ] Welcome to the world of accidental privacy spills. ] Compared with the problem of keeping personal email ] private, copyright and spam are easy. Full essay inside . ] . . . This post is extremely long. The internet want poetry. The message conveyed as efficiently as possible so that we can all get on to the next one, as there are so many in the inbox. This doesn't fit the standard. However, it is a perfect explanation of the relationship between copyright and privacy, and also observes the conflict between the old and new journalism. How YOU think these questions will be resolved is an interesting exercise. LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age - Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet |
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