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Thursday, April 10, 2003

This site contains information on the recent lawsuits filed by the RIAA against 4 college students for contributory and direct copyright infringement seeking damages of up to ninety seven billion eight hundred million dollars.

A site just went up that exams the current RIAA lawsuits against 4 college students.  It shows comparisions to Napster, and the technical side of what the students had set up.   Its pretty easy to understand, and worth a look.


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SemiTruths: look at Bush and his "military" record. Plus a nice picture. (click on the picture)

http://semitrue.com/2003/03/20.html


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Mobile phone companies are making
a last stand to block a regulation that would allow
subscribers to keep their telephone numbers when they switch
wireless carriers.
 A good article, gives an overview of the law
schedule to go into Effect in November.  Something it does that I
didn’t realize is allow you to transfer a wired number to a
wireless phone.  Now
that’s cool.

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From the Politech List:

Delta Air Lines is launching a new 'low cost' carrier called 'Song'.

 Song (http://www.flysong.com) will use the same reservation system as Delta, earning it the disdain of all Americans who believe in the US Constitution.

 Song (and Delta) is collaborating in a test of the CAPPS II system, an invasive and un-American program that forces citizens to undergo a background investigation

that includes personal banking information and a credit check simply to travel in his or her own country.

 http://www.donotflysong.com has been launched to punish Song for its participation. The site is affiliated with http://www.boycottdelta.org .

 The CAPPS II system goes far beyond what any thinking citizen of this country should consider reasonable.

 Boycott Delta. Boycott Song. The democracy you save may be your own.

 Boycott Delta Press/Analyst Contact: Bill Scannell (tel: 1-650-787-8708)

 Previous Politech message:

"BoycottDelta.com launches to protest airline's snooping"

http://www.politechbot.com/p-04525.html

In case you don’t know what this is about, Delta is working

with the government to test their new database passenger screening system.

Basically the system will know everything about you, in order to determine if you should

be allowed to fly. Here’s some Background


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Got this off the politech list (This is Humor)

 

BAGHDAD (Routers) -- A team of
Coalition legislators, lawyers,  prosecutors, and judges has been air-dropped into
Firbol Square to take 
charge of Saddam's statue's head and to prepare Iraqi
democracy for the post-liberation
era.
 
Copies of the suggested model legislation
were distributed to reporters 
outside the Tel Aviv Hotel (formerly the Palestine
Hotel). Copies were made on French copiers looted from the
Ministry of Information.
 
Some of the items in the model legislation
include:
 
* passage of the "Iraqi PATRIOT
Act." This Act would ban speech deemed  harmful to the nation, would
allow jailing of material witnesses and  other illegal combatants
without charges, would declare Islam to be a  terror-related cult, and
would basically be much more efficient than the primitive tools
used by Saddam.
 
* establishment of a dual-party system and
the lobbyists and graft collectors necessary to make such a
system work. The names of the parties have not been finalized,
but at least one of them will likely be called "The
Republican Guard."
 
* a change in the name of the Ministry of
Information to "Department of Homeland Security." It
is suggested that the current Minister of Information, aka
Baghdad Bob, be named Secretary of Homeland
Security.
 
* restrictions on terrorist use of
cryptography (in other words, use of cryptography by
non-governmental bodies).
 
* a national ID system based on the system
in use in Coalition countries
 
* an extensive system of surveillance
cameras similar to the one deployed in the United Kingdom, a
Coalition principal
 
* a recommendation that Al-Jazeera and
Al-Arabia reporters face charges of sedition for illegally
reporting events not intended to be
reported
 
* strong new restrictions on pornography,
smut, and hate speech
 
* a nationwide smoking
ban
 
[rest of model legislation at
www.coalition.gov/ourplan

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A little Understanding of Iraqi culture

A little Understanding of Iraqi culture

 

This article over at the BBC, does a good job of explaining what the Iraqis are really doing when they are celebrating.  Basically, what some of their customs mean.

 


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