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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
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- Congress looks at next-gen ad networks
- The Center for Democracy and Technology will testify Wednesday about the privacy concerns over ad networks like NebuAd, which has come under fire over a deal with Charter Communications to deploy user-tracking technology, ChannelWeb reports. "For years, Web sites have entered into agreements with advertising...
- Tags: Advertisement, Network, U.S. Congress, Ad Network, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- A Modest Privacy Proposal
- The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- An history of bilateral teleoperation
- In case you're not familiar with the concept of bilateral teleoperation, this is just a way to remotely control robots. Two researchers have written a technical paper which covers more than 50 years of history of bilateral teleoperation. This paper has just received the 'Automatica Best Paper' in the survey/tutorial...
- Tags: Moon, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- U.S. Justice Department to be sued
- From Slashdot: tpaudio writes "The ACLU and the EFF are suing the Department of Justice over how the government might be using GPS and location data from cell phones. With over 200 million Americans carrying cell phones, this could be pretty important for setting guidelines. We have already seen...
- Tags: Phone, American Civil Liberties Union, Cell Phone, U.S. Department Of Justice, Government, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- G8 and climate change
- Is much expected from the G8 summit in Japan? Not according to the Aussies. The Canadian government doesn't foresee anhy progress on an agreement either. India's not a member of the G8 but as a major developing nation with a huge population it is at least politely allowed...
- Tags: Japan, Nation, Agreement, Indian Government, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- AVG changes its stance on LinkScanner
- A few days ago I wrote a story about AVG's LinkScanner causing a massive amount of additional traffic on the net in the name of protecting customers... yeah. Well, here's a quote from the original article to give some background: Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Whirlpool Corp., Search Result, Slashdot, AVG, LinkScanner, Web Site Development, Search, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Ticking bombs in enterprise land
- I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm
- $1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithmSchneier thought the sameIf you read Bruce Schneier's history on his website, he claim to have discovered the same revelation. He says he used to believe that if he found the perfect encryption, the world would be secure. He later...
- Tags: encryption algorithm
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
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