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2:29 pm EST, Mar 24, 2002 |
"H2K2 will take place July 12, 13, and 14, 2002, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. " 2600 Magazine is throwing another con this summer. H2K2 |
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Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders |
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2:25 pm EST, Mar 24, 2002 |
Anyone violating the CBDTPA would be subject to statutory damages ranging from $200 to $25,000 per violation. An irked content owner would have a quiver of legal arrows to aim at a violator: Search warrants, impounding or destruction of equipment used in the illegal activity, plus attorney's fees, reimbursement for lost profits and actual damages. That's not all. Anyone who ignores the CBDTPA's prohibitions -- and does it for "commercial advantage or private financial gain" -- would face the same criminal penalties that once threatened the Russian hacker Sklyarov: up to a $500,000 fine and five years in prison. Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders |
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What Hollings' Bill Would Do |
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2:20 pm EST, Mar 24, 2002 |
Here's a primer on the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (S.2048) What Hollings' Bill Would Do |
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Bush Touts 'Smart' Border for the U.S. and Mexico |
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2:17 pm EST, Mar 24, 2002 |
The joint initiative with Mexico seeks to develop a "biometric" ID system--using such identifying characteristics as fingerprints or retina scans--for frequent travelers from both countries that would let them use commuter lanes at high-volume border crossings. Bush Touts 'Smart' Border for the U.S. and Mexico |
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Telecom, Tangled in Its Own Web |
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1:53 pm EST, Mar 24, 2002 |
Thanks to a star-quality cast, the Enron wreck has been riveting theater. ... Yet while all eyes remain on Enron, a tragedy of identical plot but with far more damaging implications has been playing out on another stage. Unlike Enron's saga, this drama is not about a single, rogue company operating to enrich its executives. This tale is about an entire industry -- telecommunications -- that rose to a value of $2 trillion based on dubious promises by Wall Street and company executives of an explosive growth in demand for telecommunications services. When that demand failed to materialize, the companies were left with mountains of debt and little revenue. ... It is unclear whether many of these interlocking relationships served any economic purpose. ... There is no doubt that the mess is large ... some $1.4 trillion in investor wealth has evaporated ... 400,000 jobs in the telecommunications sector have vanished ... 61,000 jobs in the first two months of 2002 ... "The underpinnings of the emerging telecom bubble were a phenomenal miscalculation. At the time it seemed like a logical progression of history: cellular, the Internet, the new thing. It was bold, it was risky, it was expensive. And it was wrong." Telecom, Tangled in Its Own Web |
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KRT Wire | 03/21/2002 | Gun control advocate may have violated gun laws |
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10:59 pm EST, Mar 22, 2002 |
Gun-control advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the New York Daily News has learned. KRT Wire | 03/21/2002 | Gun control advocate may have violated gun laws |
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Hazards of the DMCA - Tech News - CNET.com |
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10:19 pm EST, Mar 22, 2002 |
"A bill was introduced Thursday in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ernest Hollings and five other senators that would redesign all computers so that one of the two basic things they do is controlled by Congress. This is reminiscent of the state legislature that decided that pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, should simply be three, instead of the endlessly fascinating irrational number that it actually is. " Yeah, thats about right... Hazards of the DMCA - Tech News - CNET.com |
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Hollings formally introduces SSSCA |
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12:13 am EST, Mar 22, 2002 |
"In addition, the legislation specifies that no copy protection technology may prevent consumers from "making a personal copy for lawful use in the home" of non pay-per-view television programming. " This is just dumb.... Hollings formally introduces SSSCA |
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Telecom Job Cuts Up, Worst Yet To Come |
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3:47 pm EST, Mar 19, 2002 |
The number of job cuts in the battered telecommunications industry this year is 42 percent greater than during the first two months of 2001, but things are likely to get worse before they get better, an employment firm said today. ... [B]ased on warnings by industry giants like Lucent and Nokia, the telecommunications employment picture will become even gloomier as the year progresses. "Overcapacity, a glut of competitors and a lack of capital spending by companies on new networking and telecommunications equipment are making it difficult for even the strongest companies to avoid the turmoil," firm CEO John A. Challenger said in a news release. Telecom Job Cuts Up, Worst Yet To Come |
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Where Music Will Be Coming From |
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4:11 pm EST, Mar 18, 2002 |
"Digital file-sharing technologies -- Napster and its offspring -- are now undermining the established economics of music. And everything we know about digital technologies suggests that Napster is only the beginning. " Kevin Kelly on Digital Music Where Music Will Be Coming From |
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