Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Inside the Imam Ali Shrine. A day in the Shrine [Back to Iraq 3.0] This is the best on-the-spot report I've seen. 2:24:19 PM    comment () CNet.  Next generation Push-to-Talk (PTT) phones are running into trouble with the government.  As with most new forms of decentralized communications technology, there isn't a clean way to monitor their usage. [John Robb's Weblog] Naturally there's nothing in the article to even suggest that there might be anything wrong with the government spying on people using these phones. Nor is there any mention that all of the alphabet soup of Federal agencies that have taken an interest are illegal under the US Constitution. 10:09:07 AM    comment () CyberCafe Violence. Anti-violence rules in effect at L.A. cybercafes: Apparently there's violence in and around "cybercafes" in L.A. I'm assuming "cybercafe" is a trendy way of saying "coffee shop with kiosk machines and wifi." Los Angeles is the largest of several Southern California cities to enact restrictions on Internet gaming parlors. The ordinance was proposed after several shootings in 2002 near cybercafes, two of them fatal. A police analysis found that most of the people arrested at cybercafes were minors who violated curfew or truancy rules. Officials were concerned that the cafes were havens for gang activity. First of all, why cybercafes of all places to center gang activity? Second, why the violence? Did someone take the "good" computer or something? Click here to comment on this entry [Gadgetopia] There's not any logic behind this, it's just another case of the LA City Council using temporary hysteria to expand the grip of fascism on the city. 9:39:22 AM    comment ()

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