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- It's Fair Use Day - good luck celebrating it
- Today is Fair Use Day, notes Ars Technica. Not quite recognized as a national holiday, Fair Use Day was crated by Eric Clifford three years ago to raise awareness of the raidly shifting copyright landscape. This year the day is reconized by the Pirate Party of the Unites States, a...
- Tags: Congress
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Congress reluctant to 'save net radio'
- Despite a flood of input from voters, calling for Congress to "save net radio" by overturning the new royalty rates imposed by the Copyright Royalties Board, House members evinced substantial reluctance to get involved at a recent committee hearing, reports Ars Technica. In a meeting of the House Committee on...
- Tags: Web, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- 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...
- Tags: Congress, Intelligence, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- 'Day of Silence' for Internet radio
- Gandhi would be proud of what probably is the Internet's first passive resistance protest--the "Day of Silence" coming to Internet radio on June 26. As a response to a court ruling that imposes huge increases on the royalty rates Internet radio operators must pay - which are applied retroactively, no...
- Tags: Courts, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Google's latest target: Washington
- As the search engine powerhouse Google penetrates more and more markets, it's also penetrating Washington. Google execs have been reading Microsoft history and are working hard not to repeat Redmond's ill-advised choice in the early '90s to shun the halls of government. Careful not to repeat Microsoft's stand-offish attitude, Google...
- Tags: Google, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- House report: 51 Bush officials have missing RNC emails
- Eighty-eight White House officials have email accounts with Republican National Committee - and email records for 51 of them are missing, the House Oversight Committee reported on Monday. TechNewsWorld reports that the missing emails are starting to smell like a smoking gun with "obstruction of justice" emblazoned on the barrel.Congress...
- Tags: Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Bill to make cable programming safer and cheaper for families
- When it comes to cable programming, everyone knows that there's a few good channels in a sea of commercial pablum. A new bill introduced into the House of Representatives, however, hopes to change the programming structure to an tiered format, giving consumers more choice in what they allow into their...
- Tags: Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Will Congress lift moratorium on Internet sales tax?
- As the Internet increasingly becomes a place for people to shop and do business, the federal government wants a piece of the action. Several proposals are making the rounds of Congress that would undo a moratorium that blocks states from imposing their own taxes on Internet access, reports Wired NewsAt...
- Tags: State &, Local Govt, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Congress wants to cut college funding over illegal downloads
- Siding with the the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, politicians are putting pressure on universities to do more to prevent students from illegally downloading music and other copyrighted files on campus networks, reports CNET News.Focusing on how to stem the tide of file...
- Tags: Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- NPR file suit in net radio royalty conflict
- National Public Radio has joined the ranks of online radio broadcasters objecting to recent ruling to increase music royalty fees, reports the Associated Press.NPR filed a notice with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals this week, stating that it would challenge the ruling by a panel of copyright judges that...
- Tags: Courts, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Congress doubtful about immunity for phone companies in NSA spying
- Despite the Bush administration's firm stance on granting immunity to telephone companies, Congress hopes to raise the issue again to find out exactly what the phone companies provided to the government, reports Ars Technica. The Bush administration has asked for retroactive immunity for telephone companies regardless of the legality of...
- Tags: Congress, Intelligence
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Pelosi asks Yahoo users how to solve climate change
- If a politician wants to find out what their constituents think should be done about global warming, why not ask them directly? That's just what House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi is doing when she appears on Yahoo Answersthis week, reports Green Wombat.Yahoo Answers is probably the biggest call-in show ever. Users...
- Tags: Congress, Web
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Making America safe for online poker
- If you play poker on the Internet, you already know about the squeeze the U.S. government is putting on Internet gambling. Wired News reports that a law passed last September, which just went into effect, makes financial transactions between online casinos and American banks and credit card companies illegal.The Unlawful...
- Tags: International, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- Hearings on broadband data suggest Congressional push for national strategy
- Care to compare US broadband speeds to the rest of the world? Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) did yesterday, in hearings on how the FCC measures availability. The US lags in speed, availability and value, Markey said and charged that the FCC "has not kept pace with the times or the...
- Tags: Congress, Municipal broadband, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Senators propose infinite H-1Bs for advanced degree holders
- Senators propose infinite H-1Bs for advanced degree holdersagain the congress sold us out!Everyting seems to be against the people that try to make a decent living.Importing cheap labor and exporting jobs overseas seems to be the the 'new trade' our elected officials have invented.I thought that a democratic congress could...
- Tags: Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Everyting, H-1B, salary, H1B, congress, job
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- Two controversial bills aim to rein in identity theft
- In the war on identity theft, two new bills were recently approved by the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee, but despite Congresss overwhelming support, some industry insiders still have reservations, reports CNET News. The proposals would create new regulations on spyware and set greater limits on the use...
- Tags: Congress, Government technology, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Proposed federal shield for reporters now includes bloggers
- A bill to create a federal reporters shield was amended recently to include coverage for bloggers, Ars Technica reports. Instead of requiring journalists to be tied to a news organization, the bill now defines "journalism" to focus more on the function of the job: "the gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing,...
- Tags: Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Senate subpoenas Gonzales' emails with Rove
- Senators subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales emails today, demanding all email correspondence between him and Karl Rove related to the firings of eight federal prosecutors, The Washington Post reports. "It is troubling that significant documents highly relevant to the committees inquiry have not been produced," Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick...
- Tags: Justice, Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Anti spyware bill faces controversy over limiting citizens' ability to sue
- Stupid congressional acronyms reached a new level with the introduction in the House of the SPY ACT, standing for Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act. This may be the first use of the second person in federal law. In any case, the bill is controversial for reasons other...
- Tags: Government technology, Congress
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Malicious email opened doors to State computers for hackers
- Testifying at a House hearing today, a security coordinator for the State Departments Bureau of Diplomatic Security, revealed that hackers obtained entry to State Dept. systems after an employee opened a mysterious email, AP reports. In the first public account revealing details about the intrusion and the governments hurried...
- Tags: Government technology, Congress, Security
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
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