Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Kiss it goodbye. With industry henchmen in complete control of Washington, the Clean Air Act, wilderness preserves and environmental enforcement are all endangered species. [Salon.com] 10:20:26 PM

America's parks: Open for business. Padre Island National Seashore isn't the only wildlife refuge where new drilling rigs are becoming part of the scenery. [Salon.com] 10:19:55 PM

Group urges limits on open source. A trade association, which counts Microsoft, Cisco and Intel among its backers, tells the U.S. Defense Department that it should think twice before embracing open-source software. [CNET News.com] 10:16:27 PM

Sleazy Investment Bankers, Part MMMCCLXVIII Quattrone's company will probably pay a few hundred million to make this go away. Quattrone and his friends will probably get to keep their loot. What a world we live in. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 10:15:04 PM

Entertainment Industry Honcho's Misrepresentations, Deconstructed The news reports I saw left me speechless, because Chernin was spewing almost pure garbage. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 9:58:40 PM

American law enforcement elite vandalize property and put people at risk for own amusement.. A police raid Wednesday night in San Antonio, Texas left a charred wall in the home of Marcos and Salvador Huerta, and sent an innocent man to a hospital with minor injuries. The raid was on the wrong house. [kuro5hin.org] 2:41:38 AM

Rafe Colburn: It's stupid to talk about Microsoft's innovation without talking about the innovation stifled by Microsoft. 2:30:28 AM

Bush administration pushes for repeal of Miranda law. Bush administration officials U.S. Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson and Michael Chertoff, the chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, in a brief for an upcoming Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) case say that police have the right to force people held in custody to talk, so long as their incriminating statements are not used to prosecute them. [kuro5hin.org] 2:16:22 AM

'I demand the story be taken down immediately' - RIAA [The Register] 2:01:09 AM

RIAA punishing Navy cadets 'because it can' [The Register] 2:00:15 AM

BBC says "Avoid Explorer". twitter writes "Citing security flaws that lead to ads and spys on Microsoft infested computers the BBC in this article recomends avoiding Internet Explorer." ... [Slashdot] 1:58:35 AM

'No conflict of interest,' as MS recruits top Brussels IT Eurocrat. But a curious number of his staff seem to cover 'competition cases' [The Register] 1:58:06 AM

Alleged Theft of Bandwidth, Draconian Action by Authorities [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 1:45:49 AM

Georgy Do-Right. A top Canadian official calls Bush a "moron" -- and her countrymen cheer. Why do our northern neighbors think the president is a chimp? [Salon.com] 1:38:37 AM

"Grave questions of invasion of privacy". Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, warns that the Total Information Awareness program threatens our basic rights -- and questions whether Adm. Poindexter is the right man to run it. [Salon.com] 1:37:10 AM

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