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Thursday, November 14, 2002Digital Media Consumers' Rights Actcomment []
Slashdot | EFF Urges Support for Rep. Boucher's DMCRA. Partnership For SuccessMy RSS feed truncates too much of this post -- it's from leaders dot net and is one of the best I've read in a long time and from an (for me) unfamiliar source. I'll be adding www.earlytorise.com to my list of sources from now on. There's a lot of technology support for the ideas expressed here in the klog/collaboration community.Update: Well, upon further investigation earlytorise.com is not what I thought. I still like the piece below, but I won't be signing up for etr anytime soon, at least until I know a lot more about just what it is and who's behind it.
What's Next, The Death Penalty?I hate spam and nefarious computer hacks as much as anyone, but this is an egergious over-reach. A hacker's sentence should be vbased on the nature of his(her) crime and the damage caused, nothing else. This is brain-damaged stupid.
Bill could jail hackers for life. Baywatch Foreign PolicyA friend of mine recently suggested that America's best hope for supplanting terrorist Islamic regimes with democratic governments is to leverage one of our greatest cultural treasures -- Baywatch.The idea is to purchase global rights to the entire Baywatch series, then carpet-bomb the Middle East with video cassettes, magazines, and Pamela Anderson-Lee posters boldly emblazoned with the phrase You too can have this, if you build a democracy. I don't know, seems like a good, non-violent alternative to me. I Just Made $2,000I changed my auto insurance carrier this morning. I went with GEICO. I called the 800 number, spoke with a very pleasant, professional lady down in Macon, GA, and got new insurance. The whole process took less than 20 minutes and two phone calls. Wonderful experience.By contrast my old carrier, Progressive, and my independent agent were of no help. Go figure. Feel the LoveWow! Microsoft is going to make me more secure even if it means they have to break some of my applications. How noble, how self-sacrificing, how poignant. Can you feel the love?
Mundie grades Trustworthy Computing after first year. Poindexter and Ashcroft Are Not LiarsWhy all the hue and cry over the lying in the current Administration? It's not the lies we ought to be worried about -- it's the forthright, obvious, unrepentant Nazi-fication of the country that ought have our attention. And far too many otherwise intelligent people are being flim-flammed by the manufactured cloak of patriotism that's being laid over this pile of horse manure. (The NYTimes article requires free registration. Would that it were not so...)
William Safire's concern about the Homeland Security Act - He says, if the Act is not amended before passage, here's what will happen to you:"Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade your receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as a virtual, centralized grand database.[...] [Ernie the Attorney]
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