]
] Virginia announced yesterday the indictments of two people
] on criminal charges involving unsolicited e-mail, the
] first case to be brought under an antispam law that took
] effect in June. Virginia is one of the few states with
] laws that include criminal penalties for sending
] unsolicited bulk e-mail, or spam.

Not sure if this is good or bad.

Virginia Indicts 2 Under Antispam Law

] The issue of who controls the internet will not be
] decided till 2005, UN member states have revealed.

UN Punting on ITU vs ICANN until 2005

] WASHINGTON (AP) -- A sharply divided Supreme Court upheld key
] features of the nation's new law intended to lessen the influence of
] money in politics, ruling Wednesday that the government may ban
] unlimited donations to political parties.

Yay!

Supreme Court Upholds McCain-Feingold

] LONDON (Reuters) - A controversial plan to grant
] governments broad controls over the Internet has stolen
] the spotlight of a United Nations conference on IT next
] week, where China and Cuba will be among its strongest
] supporters.

More ITU v ICANN.

Fight for control of the Net erupts at U.N.

] Republican lawmakers steamed over an unflattering television movie
] about Ronald Reagan are pushing to get his image on the dime in
] place of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's.

In the latest phase of the Canonization of Ronald Reagan....

GOP to put Reagan on the Dime?!

] Getting approval for the restraining order filed by the
] Online Privacy Group (OPG), a non-profit Web hosting
] company and ISP out of San Francisco, is the legal first
] step to determine whether Diebold has the constitutional
] right to make an ISP shut down a customer's Web site
] because it contains information that highlights the
] vulnerabilities of its e-voting machines.

Maybe this is a good sign...

Judge Needs Time For E-Voting Decision

] IOWA CITY, Nov. 10 — Senator John Kerry announced on Monday that
] he had fired his campaign manager as he struggled to revive a
] candidacy that has tumbled from a dominant position in the
] Democratic presidential contest.

I think its about time for Kerry to go away ... for better or worse, the competition is basically boiled down to Clark and Dean ... everyone else is wasting our time.

Kerry Dismisses Campaign Chief

Decius wrote:
] ] For the first time in our history, American citizens have
] ] been seized by the executive branch of government and put
] ] in prison without being charged with a crime, without
] ] having the right to a trial, without being able to see a
] ] lawyer, and without even being able to contact their
] ] families.
]
] Increasingly I must insist that brevity is genius, but many of
] you will enjoy watching Gore rip the President a new one for
] paragraph after paragraph, even if the material might be
] redundant for you. If 9-11 made everyone more radical, here
] you can really see how deep the chasm is between the left and
] the right. What I will say is most interesting is that Gore is
] even fair. He is careful, for example, to acknowledge that
] some of the sections of the Patriot act aren't
] unreasonable.... And yet he still has much to complain about.

Now that Gore's political career is basically over, I think this is a great role for him: throwing shit at the adminstration. He has (some) credibility and nothing to lose -- and the administration has everything to lose.

RE: Al Gore reads the administration the riot act.

]
] WASHINGTON - Regulators disclosed a new legal campaign
] Thursday against an annoying method for delivering
] unwanted ``pop-up'' Internet advertisements, accusing a
] California company of ``high-tech extortion'' in its
] offers for software to block the very ads it was sending.

Yay! FTC is finally starting to go after these assholes!

FTC cracking down on 'Windows Messaging' spam

] U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D.-Va.), a longtime champion of
] fair use rights, said Thursday the Copyright Office's
] ruling earlier this week denying consumers the right to
] make "fair use" copies of digitally recorded material
] except in very narrowly defined cases, was a "misguided
] decision."

Boucher Calls Copyright Office 'Misguided'