February 18,
2002 -
Jamaican Jails Going Online
- By Mark Baard, WiredNews,
Jamaican in-mates may soon get
computer training in a prison
that lacks proper health care.
Many of Jamaica's maximum
security prisoners can't get
proper medical care, but they
may soon get Internet access.
Prison "teammates," as they're
known in the argot of Jamaica's
recent prison rehab and reform
movement, will use computers to
create art, learn technical
skills, e-mail loved ones --
even work on
relationship-building exercises
with their guards...
February
26, 2002 -
UN Criminal Court Threatens U.S.
Soldiers In Fight Against
Terrorism -
AmericanPolicy.org, February 26,
2002, By Tom DeWeese, U.S.
soldiers and pilots are risking
their lives fighting the
terrorists who killed almost
5,000 innocent Americans on
September 11th. They have been
using massive firepower to rain
destruction down on the hide
outs of Osama bin Laden and
those who help to hide him. Once
the evil ones are destroyed in
Afghanistan, the war theater
will shift to other nations that
aid and abet terrorists. Our
soldiers are heroes in the
tradition of the Doughboys of
World War I and the GI’s of
World War II, who also sought to
vanquish evil from the face of
the earth...
February 07, 2002
-
NY: Network
Associates gags
free speech
- By David
Becker, Special to
ZDNet News,
The New York state
attorney general's
office sued
security software
maker Network
Associates on
Thursday over
licensing language
it says restricts
free-speech
rights. The suit,
which focuses on
antivirus and
firewall software
sold by the
company's McAfee
subsidiary,
centers on a
"censorship
clause" included
in documentation
presented to
customers who
download software
from McAfee's Web
site or use
certain versions
of package
software. The
clause says
customers cannot
publish product
reviews or results
of benchmark tests
without permission
from the
company...
February 5, 2002 -
$1 Streams: Get It While It's Hot - By Noah Shachtman,
Wired News, A Taiwanese website is selling streams of new and
classic Hollywood movies for $1 -- in clear violation of international
copyright agreements, American intellectual property advocates,
government officials and copyright lawyers all say. The site,
movie88.com, is streaming thousands of American movies, from Legally
Blonde to Judgment at Nuremberg, as well as a number of Japanese and
Chinese films. A $1 fee buys three days of unlimited access to
RealVideo versions of each title. Movie88.com starts each user account
with $5, so the first five films are free...
February 4, 2002 -
What
will become of the budget? - By Tom Curry, MSNBC,
Bush’s proposal shapes debate: It’ll take months for Congress to make
decisions President Bush signs a $318 billion military spending bill
for fiscal year 2002 at the Pentagon last month. President Bush has
unveiled his fiscal year 2003 budget proposing $2.13 trillion in
spending. The budget plan sprawls over four volumes, totals 2,760
pages, and weighs 13 pounds. Although massive, the budget blueprint is
only a proposal. It’s up to Congress to add, subtract and change
spending priorities...
February 21, 2002 -
Spam worsens, slows AT&T e-mail
- By Bob Sullivan, MSNBC, "Unsolicited messages now
20 percent off all traffic... Think spam is just annoying? Ask AT&T
WorldNet users. A spam attack actually interrupted delivery of
e-mail to thousands of WorldNet customers earlier this week, as the
company fought off a deluge of marketing messages destined for
customers. It’s a sign of the times, says WorldNet spam filtering
company Brightmail Inc., which claims that junk e-mail has soared in
the past 12 months and now represents 20 percent of all e-mail
floating around the Internet..."
