Thursday night the Senate ratified the Convention on Cybercrime, an international treaty between members of the Council of Europe. The treaty had been pushed hard by the Bush administration and major copyright holders, such as Microsoft, RIAA, et. al. The overall idea of the treaty is to create consistency between traditional laws and cybercrime law [...]
Timothy Lee published an Op-Ed in today’s NY Times entitled Entangling the Web in which he argues that ensuring Network Neutrality would be tantamount to big government regulation, which would lead to monopolies and corruption. Mr. Lee seems to ignore the fact that we are already there.
I have always found it, more then a little, [...]
Well it seems that the administration and pundits were just a tad wrong again. A scant nine months ago Bush argued that the Iraq War Is Good for Israel – today over 100,000 Iraqis protested, shouting ‘death to Israel; death to America’. I doubt the Israelis feel as though this is a positive turn [...]
It’s been nearly a year since I’ve posted here. The reasons are varied — mainly a series of bad excuses and an attempt at apathy towards the world – an attempt that I can assure you is futile given the deplorable state of the world, and our country.
So, here it is 02:20 and NWS says [...]
