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Bushed!. Scare offensive: The White House tries to change the 9/11 subject with a series of chilling, if vague, terror warnings. [Salon.com]
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Act Would OK Snail Mail Searches. The House overwhelmingly approves the Customs Border Security Act, which says mail can be searched at the border 'without a search warrant.' Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]
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Ashcroft knew. The official responsible for the most dramatic failures of Sept. 11 turns out to be the attorney general. His sweeping anti-terror measures in recent months were a fig leaf to cover naked incompetence. [Salon.com]
1:54:53 PM
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American Specatator: The Cyberspace Cowboy: John Perry Barlow. There isn't a great deal going on that's more important than laying the foundations of the place where practically all commerce-whether social, economic, or political-will be conducted for the next couple of thousand years. We really need to do this right. [Tomalak's Realm]
1:08:43 PM
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Antichrist politics. For many fervent Christians, support for Israel has less to do with Ariel Sharon than preparing for Armageddon. [Salon.com]
1:06:51 PM
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Can we sue our own fat asses off?. Flush from their victory against Big Tobacco, activists are now gunning for the purveyors of junk food. [Salon.com]
[W]e may be seeing the beginnings of [a] shift in two recent books: "Fast Food Nation," by Eric Schlosser, and "Food Politics" by Marion Nestle. Both have advanced the argument that the way food companies manufacture and market their products makes them bear serious responsibility for [obesity and related health problems in the US].
1:06:01 PM
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Hollywood's Latest Control Freakery [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
The report shows that this ADC regulation is part of a larger agenda. The first piece of that agenda, a mandate that would give Hollywood a veto over digital television technology, is weeks away from coming to fruition. Hollywood also proposes a radical redesign of the Internet to assist in controlling the distribution of copyrighted works. This three-part agenda -- controlling digital media devices, controlling analog converters, controlling the Internet -- is a frightening peek at Hollywood's vision of the future.
12:58:46 PM
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 This evening Wes Felter posted a link to an EE Times article where Intel expresses its disbelief over plans to cripple computers and turn them into "dumb terminals". Wes's comment on the link: "Looks like Intel is firmly in the pocket of the entertainment BigCos." I asked Wes where the smoking gun is. He pointed to a page in his archive for 3/21, which included a link to this joint statement by Intel and AOL, which clearly says they want to turn over all our computers to the old supply chain, where "consumers" use computers to watch stuff produced by the entertainment industry. These systems, presumably, would not be capable of competing with that industry. In the world they're envisioning you'll be watching simulations of people posting to weblogs, instead of real people. Awesome. [Scripting News]
12:54:48 PM
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Busy Year for Big Brother. Wiretapping is on the rise again. Also: Hollywood steps up its war against piracy.... Political aide has an e-mail moment.... and more. Declan McCullagh empties his notebook from Washington. [Wired News]
12:43:53 PM
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InfoWorld: Unfairly used. You might think Congress, which wrote the copyright laws that created the concept of fair use, would be stepping in to put a stop to this abuse. On the contrary, so far Congress seems eager to sell consumers' fair use rights down the river, and it's just a matter of determining who will be the highest bidder. [Tomalak's Realm]
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