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- Ashcroft resigns attorney general's post
- Ashcroft resigns attorney general's postHat's off to Mr. Ashcroft.Do I agree with his politics? No way, but then agreement isn't really required. Look, the guy is a hard ax, but isn't that what his job should require? I mean shouldn't the "top cop" be a hard core...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-09
- DOJ takes P2P legislation with 'grain of salt'
- DOJ takes P2P legislation with 'grain of salt'NA, NA, NA, NA, BOO, BOO!At least someone read the bill finally and realized what was actually being proposed. Orrin needs to just give it up and go home-NOW! No need to wait for the election.Hmmm, maybe it's time for some more cut...
- Discussion threads 2004-08-23
- Critics: Management, not IT money, is FBI problem
- Critics: Management, not IT money, is FBI problemDeficient funding in generalThey could afford to hire enough translators and had trouble paying the enough to keep them. So it took much longer to translate intercepted messages from suspected terrorists. That show's it wasn't just IT spending cuts. It was over all...
- Discussion threads 2004-04-14
- Ashcroft ready to clean up the Internet
- Ashcroft ready to clean up the InternetDisturbedEven as a staunch conservative, I am disturbed by this morality trend in the Republican party. I have always been a believer in the first amendment right of free speech and expression. I believe that other people have the right to view...
- Discussion threads 2004-03-08
- SCO to sue Linux user Tuesday
- SCO to sue Linux user TuesdayThese criminals....need to be bombed. They have gone waaaaaaay to far now..Here's an example of how stupid it is:Lets say you own and apartment building and rent out 4 units. One day I come along and tell the world I own the apartment building and...
- Discussion threads 2004-03-01
- California lawmaker introduces RFID bill
- California lawmaker introduces RFID billGood to seeEven if this bill does not make it through, at least this is finally being brought to mass public attention. This will at least push the issue more to the forefront where some other bill may finally pass.You want to bet...........................Ashcroft is taking a...
- Discussion threads 2004-02-24
- Ashcroft says surveillance powers should stand
- Ashcroft says surveillance powers should standthe Internet is in no danger of disappearing...I just wish Ashcroft, Bush, and the so-called Patriot Act would disappear.Abuse of Pat ActWhat many people find objectionable is using the pat act to protect the likes of the RIAA. It is this broad expansion of...
- Discussion threads 2004-01-30
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- Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works is 'unfair and unwise'
- Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works" – those works that are covered by copyright but whose owners are unknown. He was a guiding force behind the Internet Archive's 2004 suit to get the courts to address the issue. (See Free the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Change-Congress, an open source strategy for political reform
- Lawrence Lessig, known for his leadership on IP reform and the illfated Eldred v. Ashcroft decision, launched his latest project, Change-Congress at the National Press Club on Thursday. Partnering with Joe Trippi formerly of the Dean and Edwards campaigns, Lessig's strategy will be a "bi-partisan, web-based effort to leverage and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- Microsoft ruling: EU court statement
- Microsoft ruling: EU court statementLooks like the lid comes offThe Commission stayed the requirement that MS publicly disclose interop documentation until this ruling, on the grounds that once the data became public it would be impossible to put it back in the bottle.Well, the Court has upheld the common-sense decision...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Is Microsoft a monopoly?
- Is Microsoft a monopoly?TrueFor instance, %99.9999 percent of all schools, atleast, run on MicroSoft, thus affecting society. Moreover, it is used by most governments.My point is, officials recognize MS, and Windows alone, as thier OS.Wrong questionThe applicable question isn't "is Microsoft a monopoly?" The operative question is, "does Microsoft...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Hacking tools don't hack, hackers do
- Hacking tools don't hack, hackers doLaws as ToolsI seem to recall then US Attorney General John Ashcroft constantly use the word "tools" in his sales pitch for the USA Patriot Act. Presumably, he meant tools to be used to go after "bad guys" who couldn't be proven guilty by...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Microsoft: less vulnerabilities in Vista AND XP than Mac OX Tiger
- Microsoft: less vulnerabilities in Vista AND XP than Mac OX TigerIsn't thiscommon knowledge. ]:)Safer?!"Microsoft’s chief operating officer Kevin Turner implicitly claimed yesterday that Vista and XP are safer than Apple’s Mac OS Tiger."They did it to excess for many users the security warnings are a nightmare endless loops to accomplish...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-27
- The next iPod will run OS X?
- The next iPod will run OS X?Microsoft should be punished for past behaviorI don't know how many of you have actually taken the time to read the transcripts from the Microsoft anti trust trial, but judging from the past comments from some of you sticking up for Microsoft, I'm sure...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- Senate issues subpoenas on NSA warrantless wiretapping
- The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney's office and the Justice Department after what the panel's chairman called "stonewalling of the worst kind" of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency's policy of wiretapping without warrants.Senator Patrick J. Leahy, chairman of...
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Uncle Sam, defending your PC
- Uncle Sam, defending your PCIn theory it sounds like a good ideaIt would be great if you could keep politics, and political favors or preferences out of the whole process, which would be next to impossible on any level of goverment. I retired from the State of Illinois,...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-07
- Who will be the Microsoft of multicore?
- Giving the keynote address at the Multicore Expo in Santa Clara Tuesday (March 27), Anant Agarwal, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT spoke about how multicore computers will reshape computing. Agarwal characterized the growth of multicore computing: "Multicore has really crashed the computing party,"...
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- EU's Kroes denies vendetta against Microsoft
- EU's Kroes denies vendetta against MicrosoftValid reason + anti US vendettaI think that the EU and the US do have genuine issues with Microsoft monopoly the EU also have legitimate issues with the Apple digital music monopoly as well. However, I also think that there is a definite resentment and...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
- Microsoft on worm watch
- Microsoft on worm watchMagnitudeAren't there 700 million Windows users out there?Magnitudes100/10=10, so 100 million would be ten 'tens of millions,' so the statement in the article isn't really that out of line. Even if 'well over 100 million downloads' was actually 190 million, that's still only 19 'tens of...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-11
- EU's tough stance prompts movement by Microsoft
- EU's tough stance prompts movement by MicrosoftEqual playing field...I just hope that the USA takes note of this andgives me equal opportunity in obtaining a positiion on an NBA team where I can ride the bench for a couply of million without having to compete.EU readers - socialism SUCKS! whether...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-10
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