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H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about

Both L-1 and H-1B visa law changes could impact SIs, outsourcers and more Dick Durbin is one-half of the Durbin-Grassley senatorial duo that is proposing new legislation re: H-1B and L-1 visas. Lately, a number of publications have opined about the latest proposed legislation and its impact...

Tags: Legislation, Worker, Dick Durbin, DOL, Enforcement Issue, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law

Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...

Tags: Legislation, Copyright Law, Creator, Government, Intellectual Property, Vertical Industries, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Full Disk Encryption Versus Policy-Based Encryption

Data Breach legislation has provided a new and much-needed framework for hospitals and healthcare providers who seek to protect patient information. No longer does a provider have to figure out what is "Reasonable and appropriate" to protect data, or to decide what to do when someone in one's organization loses...

Tags: Legislation, Patient, Disk, Encryption, CREDANT Technologies, Security

White papers 2008-09-12

Bill to add emails to sex registry

The latest wrinkle in the battle against sex offenders: The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to include email addresses and online IDs in offenders' records in the national registry of sex offenders, The Washington Post reports. The legislation is called Keeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual...

Tags: Registry, Legislation, E-mail Address, MySpace, Sex Offender, E-mail, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-16

SPY Acts vs. CAN-SPAM: No difference

Yesterday I wrote about cyber crime -- particularly as promulgated through email messages. This morning I read House Approves Second Anti-Spyware Bill. The bill is officially called H.R. 1525: Internet Spyware  Prevention Act of 2007 and commonly known as the I-SPY Act. It follows H.R. 29 [109th]: Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber...

Tags: Spyware, Spam, Security, Scams, Phishing, Legislation

Blog posts 2007-06-08

A rational debate on Net Neutrality

The subject of Net Neutrality has become so politicized that it's almost impossible to have a rational debate on the subject. Even the term "Net Neutrality" has become a political slogan that is often deliberately vague to hide its true meaning. Is it even possible to have a rational debate...

Tags: Vint Cerf, Google Inc., Legislation, Tim Berners-Lee, QoS, Network, Prioritization, Customer, Net Neutrality, Service, Carrier, Ed Whitacre, Snowe-Dorgan, Internet, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-06-04

ME bill would require stores to accept phones for recycling

65,000 tons of cell phones is hard to imagine, but that is the amount of cellphones Americans dispose of each year. In an effort to keep some of them out of the landfill, the Maine legislature is considering a proposal to make it mandatory that all cellphones be recycled, reports...

Tags: State &, Local Govt, Legislation, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-17

NH will challenge Real ID again, address other privacy issues

The New Hampshire House last year pushed a bill rejecting the federal Real ID law - which would require states to remake their driver licenses to serve as a sort of national ID card - but it was shut down in the state Senate. This year, Republican Rep....

Tags: Neal Kurk, REAL ID, privacy issue

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Additional Resources

Copyright associations want enforcement for free

The defender of status quo?What a tired old rant. Use technology and the law to enforce ill advised and ill gotten copyright protection.The internet has revolutionized mankind's ability to communicate and share knowledge and culture, and you want to put it under lock and key to deny mankind that benefit?How...

Tags: Benefits, Federal government, Sales force management, Mickey Mouse, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites

a U.S. House of Representatives bill is taking the unusual step of requiring Internet providers to block access to certain online financial scams - or face fines and federal court injunctions. For the last decade or so, Internet service providers have been dealing with requests to block access to...

Tags: Internet Provider, Financial, U.S. House Of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Internet Service Provider, Investor, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Financial Accounting, Finance, ISP, scam, Declan McCullagh

News items 2009-11-04

Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?

I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Will there be a new energy and air pollution law?

NOIf we the People have anything to say about it this legislation will die a quick death."cap and trade" = the economic destruction of the US based on junk science.This is the largest fraud ever perpetrated against the people of the World.It's not about the environment. It's about power, money,...

Tags: Litigation, pollution

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

Senate committee hearings on energy and climate legislation. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Energy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Could Congress head off action by EPA on emissions?

There's a move sponsored by Republicans to keep the EPA from taking administrative action to curtail industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The opponents of EPA action say the Clean Air Act was never intended to stop greenhouse gas emissions. Regardless of Congressional action, it is highly unlikely President...

Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, U.S. Congress, Greenhouse Gas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Universities in hot water over students' peer-to-peer sharing

Students sharing copyrighted files through university networks are landing their institutions in hot water. But with new legislation about to come into force, where do we stand now? by Zack Whittaker

Tags: P2P, Student, Water, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Global warming? No, no, no, it ain't me, babe

Harry, cut the BS. Write about tech some time.or get a job.Stop Preaching...and writing in a condescending tone. You and Blanchenwhatshisname should start your own site and stop posting this junk to a TECH site. Throwing in a line at the end about Green Jobs doesn't mean your...

Tags: Gender and diversity, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Net neutrality: a faster Internet for all

If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.I do [b]not[/b] want my internet to slow down just because some person on the [b]other[/b] end didn't pay for priority traffic.Net Neutrality had to happen in the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, faster Internet, Toll-Free, population density, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

BlackBerry the choice of organized crime

You mean police have to workand do things themselves instead of casting a massive net over everyone? What a shame...well its good for RIM ....As for gang member there is one thing i never understood .Why does the a real clean up have been never made ....you set...

Tags: Handhelds, organized crime, RIM BlackBerry, RCMP

Discussion threads 2009-10-19