April 23, 2003 -
Baby DMCAs Punish Copy Crimes
- By Joanna Glasner, Wired news, A state bill reminiscent of the controversial Digital
Millennium Copyright Act may be coming soon to a legislature near you.
That is, if it hasn't arrived already. Nearly five years after the
federal government enacted the DMCA (a law that makes it a crime to
circumvent security protections on copyrighted materials) legislators in
several states are proposing bills that place restrictions on devices
that aid in copyright infringement. In some cases, those laws are
passing...
April 03, 2003 -
Saved POWs kin say she wasn’t shot
- But parents of Pfc. Lynch say they
know little else about her ordeal, NBC,
MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES, WASHINGTON,
April 3 — The father of rescued POW
Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch said Thursday
that she was in great spirits following
her first surgery and denied reports she
had been shot and stabbed during her
captivity in Iraq...
April 02, 2003 -
"From Desert Storm to Desert Swarm"
- Businessweek.com, "Netwar"
proponent John Arquilla says info-tech
advances clear the way for a military
that can "overwhelm an opponent's
ability to respond" Over the last
decade, corporations have become faster
and leaner, thanks to their embrace of
the Internet and communications
technologies. And as the war in Iraq
demonstrates, the military has been
doing some networking of its own as
well. Indeed, if Gulf War I was the
first conflict to underscore the use of
high technology, the current conflict is
the first to spotlight the armed forces'
new network-centric warfare. The idea is
to link the military's sensors, weapons,
communication systems, commanders, and
soldiers into a giant computing grid
that gives U.S. troops the clearest
battlefield picture ever known,
attempting to lift the fabled fog of
war...
April
02, 2003 -
Microsoft Covets Google's Niche
- Reuters, PALO ALTO, Calif. --
Microsoft, the world's No. 1 software
maker, on Wednesday said it is taking
aim at privately held Google, the
Web-search company that's so popular its
name is used as a verb. "We do view
Google more and more as a competitor. We
believe that we can provide consumers
with a better product and a better user
experience. That's something that we're
actively looking at doing," said Bob
Visse, director of marketing for
Microsoft's MSN Internet services
division. Visse said the company was
making some significant investments in
developing a better search engine. But
the company has not offered specific
plans...
April
03, 2003 -
Ex-Intel VP Fights for Detainee
- By Leander Kahney, WiredNews,
Friends of an Intel programmer who is
being held in a federal prison can't
help but shake their heads in disbelief.
They've also launched a website pushing
for his release and collecting donations
for his defense. The most salient
explanation for the arrest seems to be a
link between the programmer, Maher
"Mike" Hawash, and a charitable
organization to which he donated a
fairly large sum three years ago. The
U.S. government has subsequently tagged
the charity as having ties to
terrorism...
April
14, 2003 -
"We will kill them
all........most of them." -
Wacky Iraqi Minister a Web Star - By Leander Kahney, WiredNews,
Iraq's irrepressible Information Minister is fast
becoming a major cyber-celebrity on the Web, thanks to what fans see as
his great sense of gallows humor. In the last few days, the official
mouthpiece of the Iraqi regime, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, has become the
subject of fan sites, spoof weblogs, petitions to get him a TV show and
merchandise like coffee mugs and T-Shirts. While most of the press took
al-Sahaf semi-seriously, and a lot of the public dismissed him simply as
a brazen liar, many American and U.K. Web surfers perceived something
else in his words: a unique brand of black humor in the face of
overwhelming defeat...
