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The US midterm election is over and the Democratic party will take control of the US House of Representatives. For the most part this is a good thing. A very good thing. For the most part. But there is a fly or two in the ointment. There always seems to be.
With the change of parties we will be…
This seems very odd. The Internet -- including web sites and
email -- has been found to have a very serious security flaw.
Civilized places such as Sweden and Puerto Rico are already
fixing the problem. There are plans to improve security for
US .gov and .mil sites (government and military ,…
Orin Kerr writes writes about Wikipedia
My very tentative conclusion, based on a just few sample queries, is that I hope no one relies on Wikipedia for anything very important. Its entries seem to be a strange mix of accurate statements and egregious errors.
My own experience is that Wikipedia is…
The Stop Online Piracy Act is a piece of legislation in the US whose aims are:
The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who…
time for new dns root servers outside usa and vassal states
I can't help but think that this has been accelerated by OWS and it's powerful use of the interwebs.
I didn't see the news - was the RIAA/MPAA/US Chamber of Commerce Act approved? I thought the Mickey Mouse Act (copyright extension to artist's death +150 years) was bad enough. I guess the USA is all about protecting corporations these days. People should simply stop buying music and watching crappy movies until the prices are sensible and the distributors don't act as if every customer was a thief.
That's some hardcore censorship, what happened to "fair use" when you use the copyrighted materials for, history, educational, informational, reviewing and critical purposes?
If it passes, Anon will most likely DDoS the MPAA websites.