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Monday, November 28, 2005 |
Telegraph: "A 'trophy' video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
'When the security companies kill people they just drive away and nothing is done. Sometimes we ring the companies concerned and they deny everything. The families don't get any money or compensation. I would say we have had about 50-60 incidents of this kind.'"
11:33:25 AM 
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FSFEurope: "Although the European Patent Convention excludes software from patentability, the European Patent Office is granting patents on software ideas. While >90% of litigation based on such patents would fail in court, they give the patent holders a legal basis for threatening software producers/distributors with litigation. The threat of jail time, massive fines, seizing of assets, and closure of business could generate enough fear among computer users to make people obey these patents as if they were valid.
Greatly increasing the risks involved in software development and distribution will indirectly discriminate against many software models. High legal risks are easier to bear for bodies with large funds and full time legal staff. Free software, which is often contributed to by individuals, by small- and medium-sized enterprises, and by businesses whose core business is not software, would be one category of software which would bear this indirect discrimination."
11:28:46 AM
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DemocraticVeteran: "The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world."
11:24:15 AM
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The same government that is accusing people of leaking documents and threatening the media about publishing secret memos, has leaked the suggestion that Brown is sabotaging the recent pension proposals.
BBC: "And the unions have accused the government of planning to use the report as an excuse to go back on a deal with public sector workers which allows them to retire aged 60."
11:20:54 AM
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