Political bloggers jailed, detained | Tech News on ZDNet What happened to Freedom of Speech? I usually do not discuss politics, nor do I get involved in a lot of political talk. There are some things that I just stay away from, but in doing that, I don't think anyone should have the right to shut down a blog for
It looks like we are stuck with VeriSign for six more years as they have been given a renewal on thier contract with ICANN. My questions is did this come with restriction on them playing fair and not try to pull that same stunt they pulled two years ago when the re-directed mis-typed domains to their own website. In my
U.S. Homeland Security Shuts Down BitTorrent P2P Site
Ten people suspected of involvement with the EliteTorrents webserver were served warrants by homeland security agents. According to the U.S. government agency, this is the first criminal enforcement action taken against violators of copyright law who use the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file swapping software. The operation, codenamed D-elite, targeted administrators and content providers working through the EliteTorrents website.
Jason like some other people out here in weblog land are not afraid of calling people out, and I applaud him for that. I understand his frustration completely, and having heard the commentary Rush made on his radio show about professional journalist not recognizing bloggers earlier this week by pure luck fits into a theme that seems to be prevalent
I have been pretty vocal on some of my other sites on were I stand on supporting the troops etc. But a interesting post caught my eye today over on O'Reilly that although starts out as some political commentary it then turns into commentary on the fight for Technological Innovation, in order to assure that we will still remain one
Verizon Communications will allow current customers in the Northeast U.S. to discontinue voice telephone service while keeping DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) broadband service. Telecommunication providers have been roundly criticized for requiring DSL subscribers to also maintain voice service, thereby limiting consumer choice.
Someone in congress needs to be spanked. I'm serious their is a move to shutdown access to the National Weather Service. Imagine you have paid taxes for these guys to predict the weather and now because private companies like AccuWeather and The Weather Channel who actually get their raw data from the National Weather Service want it locked out for