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Thursday, November 14, 2002 |
You Can Take Your Porn With You. Now playing on a cell phone near you, it's pornography. Also: Mobile payments in California.... Local phone companies losing to wireless providers.... all in Unwired News by Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
6:46:01 AM 
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CNET NEWS.COM - The Internet faces a free-speech test. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear challenges to a pair of state laws that require sex offenders to register personal facts in publicly accessible databases, in a legal showdown that could set new rules for access to information in the digital age. The high court will seek to decide whether so-called Megan's laws in Alaska and Connecticut strike the correct balance between shielding a community from criminals and preserving the rights of criminal defendants who have completed their punishments. In addition, some court watchers say the justices may weigh the Internet's role in disseminating public information. Many legal experts say any ruling in the Megan's law cases is likely to be narrowly tailored toward the issue. Still, privacy and free-speech proponents are closely watching the cases, believing they could offer some guidelines about online court records in general. Among the concerned parties are some media groups, which worry about the adverse effects on online journalism from a ruling saying that the publication of factual information online is somehow unconstitutional. [Privacy Digest]
6:04:00 AM
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CNET NEWS.COM - Proposed bill could jail hackers for life. A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security bill would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison. The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday evening voted 299 to 121 to approve the bill, which would reshape large portions of the federal bureaucracy into a new department combining parts of 22 existing federal agencies, including the "Secret Service", the Coast Guard, and the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center. During closed-door negotiations before the debate began, the House Republican leadership inserted the 16-page Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) into the Homeland Security bill. CSEA expands the ability of police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order, and offers Internet providers more latitude to disclose information to police. [Privacy Digest]
6:02:57 AM
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Big news on the Sherlock 3 front. We've released
an SDK that
allows you to build your own Sherlock channels. The user interface of
your channel is built using Interface Builder and the logic of the channel
can be written in JavaScript and/or XQuery.
You need to have the Mac OS X Developer Tools installed along with the
10.2.2
update and the SDK adds a technical reference on building a channel,
a Project Builder template, the Interface Builder palette and a sample
channel to help give you a jump start.
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[Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]
5:59:54 AM
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Be sure to check with Software Update for
the latest and greatest update to Jaguar - version 10.2.2. The update
includes a number of improvements for working with devices, networking
environments, and application improvements including Address Book and
Mail.
You might want to make sure that you have automatic updates enabled in
the Software Update panel found in System Preferences so you never miss
an important update.
With your AppleConnect ID, you can read the details about the update
here.
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[Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]
5:59:11 AM
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Sure Happy It's Thursday.
5:39:50 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Paul W. Swansen.
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