Thursday, December 26, 2002

US preps Big Brother Net monitoring. Carnivore on Steroids [The Register] 10:11:26 PM

Wanted: Eli Lilly Bandit, 10K dollar reward.. Just before President Bush signed the homeland security bill into law an unknown member of Congress inserted a provision into the legislation that blocks lawsuits against Eli Lilly, the manufacturer. The Bush family and the administration have many ties to the company. There's President Bush's father, who sat on the company's board in the 1970s; White House budget director Mitch Daniels, once an Eli Lilly executive; and Eli Lilly CEO Sidney Taurel, who serves on the president's homeland security advisory council. [Boing Boing Blog] 11:10:55 AM

Sendo accuses Microsoft of dirty tricks. In its lawsuit against the software giant, the U.K. mobile phone maker alleges that Microsoft stole customers and technology in order to gain entry to the mobile phone market. [CNET News.com] 10:53:48 AM

Microsoft colludes with public universities to subvert state public records laws For a yearly fee, an educational institution receives the right to sell Microsoft software at a nominal fee to it's students and employees. However, as part the of the license agreement, Microsoft has been stipulating that the terms of the contract be kept under non-disclosure. Public institutions covered by public records laws are clearly unable to abide by such terms. Surprisingly, a number of public universities have been signing off on these non-disclosure terms in apparent breach of their state's public records laws. [Daypop Top 40] 10:34:04 AM

Airline passenger cited for remark about drinking An airline passenger was cited for disorderly conduct Tuesday after the plane's crew accused him of insinuating the pilot had been drinking. [Daypop Top 40] 10:18:36 AM

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