Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp. Some people are trying to reduce their electronic presence, and discovering that doing so is not as simple as it would seem. By Jennifer 8. Lee. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

The solution is not less internet presence but more. Look at The results for Alfredo Octavio in Google, they are all about this site. How will someone find out my shady past as a Janet Reno intern? Oops!.
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Dan Gillmor and Doc are blogging from Open Source Conference where Larry Lessig and Richard Stallman have given keynotes:

Ask a venture capitalist how much he's willing to invest in new technology Hilary Rosen or Jack Valenti won't sign off on. The answer is zero, says Lessig.

We're watching our freedom evaporating. [JOHO the Blog]

Adding to Lessig's plea, Stallman tells the audience it can no longer stay out of political action no matter how much tech people may want to stay out. You can stop paying attention to politics, but that doesn't mean it's going to stop paying attention to you, he says.

Good line: Please don't call it Digital Rights Management -- it's Digital Restrictions Management.

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Bruce Perens Plans On-Stage DMCA Violation [Slashdot]

Message to congress:stupid laws will be challenge and you can't succeed. If you keep enacting stupid laws The People (remember them?) will do one of two things, either stop voting for you or stop obeying the laws...Which one would you prefer?
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Could Hollywood hack your PC?. Congress is preparing to consider a proposal that would authorize copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file trading--a step critics say amounts to vigilante justice. [CNET News.com]

No, they will assume I have a PC and when they fail I will be catalog as a terrorist, then seeing I have nothing to loose, I will become a terrorists and free all dogs from the the impound... It will be chaos, buahahahahaha.

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Who Really Cooks the Books?. C.E.O's need to step forward and adopt honest accounting practices. By Warren E. Buffett.

Options are a huge cost for many corporations and a huge benefit to executives. No wonder, then, that they have fought ferociously to avoid making a charge against their earnings. Without blushing, almost all C.E.O.'s have told their shareholders that options are cost-free.

For these C.E.O.'s I have a proposition: Berkshire Hathaway will sell you insurance, carpeting or any of our other products in exchange for options identical to those you grant yourselves. It'll all be cash-free. But do you really think your corporation will not have incurred a cost when you hand over the options in exchange for the carpeting? Or do you really think that placing a value on the option is just too difficult to do, one of your other excuses for not expensing them? If these are the opinions you honestly hold, call me collect. We can do business.

[New York Times: Opinion]

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This flowers bloom for just one night, by the next morning the are dry up. Hard picture to take.

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