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From The Economist, “Politics this week: 19th-25th July 2008″ edition:
“Italy’s parliament approved a controversial law giving four senior officials immunity from prosecution, including the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. The law still has to be signed by the president; it is likely also to be challenged in the constitutional court.”
This comes on the heels of the [...]
Three more female teachers have been jailed after it was discovered that they had sex with students in Tampa, FL. MSN has a video report on this. Plus, if you do a search on MSN Live, you’ll get plenty of search results summarizing recent news stories about similar events.
What bothers me about these reports is [...]
Senate will soon consider S. 728, a new bill that encourages massive spending for real estate development in wetland areas which are low-lying and prone to hurricane damage, like the areas that got hit the hardest in New Orleans. Senators Russ Feingold and John McCain are considering putting forth amendments to the bill that would [...]
» Go to this postThe UK Home Office has decided to put through the 3rd part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. Originally introduced in 2000, the first two parts have already been implemented. This particular part would introduce penalties of up to 2 years in jail for companies or individuals who wouldn’t disclose their encryption keys at [...]
» Go to this postMaggie Gallagher of The Weekly Standard wrote a great piece on the upcoming/potential conflict between the same-sex marriage movement and religious liberty. It’s long, but it’s definitely worth reading in its entirety.
It all boils down to this: neither side is willing to budge from its position. The religious conservatives are bent on defending their position, [...]
The New York Times is running a piece on a French teenager by the name of Aziz Ridouan. He has managed to convince the politicians to listen to him when it comes to digital music. He’s only 18 years old, and he’s already founded the Audionautes, a non-profit organization that provides legal assistance to those [...]
» Go to this postI think this latest push from some misinformed Congressmen shows how out of touch they are with the situation, for three reasons:
One: I don’t think the social-networking sites are the big threat on the Internet. I think pornography websites are much more of a threat to minors, yet nothing’s really being done to curtail minors’ [...]
The Guardian Unlimited has a great article on this. A reporter, Steve Boggan, with the aid of a security expert, Adam Laurie (the same Laurie who wrote the Apache SSL with his brother and gave it away for free) stole someone’s identity after starting with something as banal as a boarding pass, and a few [...]
» Go to this postI find this unbelievable, yet Congress seems poised to pass another revision of the DMCA, expanding the reach of this already-controversial bill. It only goes to show the power that special-interest groups have in Washington.
For example, under this new law, if Sony’s rootkit malware were removed by anti-virus software, Sony would have the right to [...]
Boing Boing has a link to the manifesto of SaveTheInternet.com. They’re a site which fights to maintain the neutrality the Internet, which means that no one entity can censor or control what or who has access across its many networks.
From Boing Boing: “Xeni Jardin: Snip from the manifesto for SaveTheInternet.com, which launches on Monday: We [...]
From CNET News: “Bush administration says that sexually explicit Web sites must be labeled as such, or their operators could go to prison.” This is an interesting article that gives a good background about where this whole thing started, and where it might go. Highly recommended read! Here is the link.
» Go to this postFrom Techdirt:
“theodp writes ‘Getting a nice tax refund this year? You’re not alone. Slate reports that some of America’s largest corporations have been reporting their own hefty tax windfalls, thanks to an absurd provision of the American Jobs Creation Act. A case in point is IBM, which reaped $2.8B in savings by paying a low [...]
