Thursday, August 15, 2002

Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace. Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants. [Daypop Top 40] 10:21:31 PM

News.Com: RIAA goes for broke, moves to put online music users in jail. [Scripting News] 5:16:13 AM

Last year on this day, I ran an excerpt from David Bank's excellent book, Breaking Windows. "In this excerpt Bank tells the story of Microsoft's decision to comply with a judge's order to open up Windows to other browsers by breaking Windows, an act of self-defacement that illustrates how far Microsoft will go before bending to authority." The Bank book is, imho, required reading for anyone who wants an informed opinion about the software industry. The publicity tour was interrupted by 9-11, so not many people have read this landmark book. [Scripting News] 5:15:07 AM

Dell mocks MS' mandatory-OS regime. Virtually naked machines going out the door [The Register] 5:07:12 AM

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