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Interesting article on the register apparently there is a cybercrime treaty in work that if Congress buys into could allow foreign countries easy access to personal information. "The Treaty, designed to streamline cooperation between signatory countries, will significant expand the power of investigators to access data and prosecute offenses ranging from copyright infringement to "hate speech"." The Registers fears are
Luckily one of the most important Linux people on the planet has a lawyer now to help fight off the Sun gestapos [ZDNet]
Seems people like buying cigarettes on-line to save some money. Many anti-smoking states have massive taxes on cigarettes and buying them on-line where they can see savings up to 50% has been quite popular. So popular in fact that somehow the Massachusetts Department of Revenue acquired a customer list of buyers and are now sending out Tax demand letters. The
Very funny but obviously the idiots that put this together have the majority of facts very incorrect it pisses me off when they put a protest spin on things and fail to mention the facts. I spent the first 20 years of my life on a farm and have many family members still heavily involved in agriculture and I will
There goes the neighborhood I personally think that by forcing this the FCC will essentially eliminate the fair use standard, now I may be wrong and the Slashdot writer seems to think that this is not going to affect fair use and should allow people to still record programs. I am not so sure with HDTV the fear or piracy
Diebold who is a bit pissy about having some of it's internal e-mail documents being posted on the web from a grassroots student campaign who suggest Diebold has to close of an relationship with the Republican Party and that the e-mail conversations demonstrate its election software is flawed and should not be trusted. Those have been targeted are taking a
Those of you living in the Texas district that Lamar Smith is from need to get to together and make sure he is not re-elected. The comments he made at a recent gathering of the American Intellectual Property Law Association which I am sure paid to have the representative speak shows the continued lack of perception that the world has