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Story : http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/07/09/we-have-jud ge039s-report-recommending-per UPDATE: In addition to her recommendation that Jack Thompson be permanently disbarred with no opportunity for reinstatement, Judge Tunis recommends an assessment of $43,675 for the costs incurred by the Florida Bar in prosecuting his case. I know it's a bit old...but in case anybody is ...

Story : http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/creati ve-commons-contracts-and-copyr In all seriousness, those who use Creative Commons branded licenses should take great care to really understand the impact, both short term and long term, that using the license might have on their career or their works. More importantly, even though Creative Commons refers to the full document as “...

Story : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080902-appe als-court-smacks-down-judge-fo In an appeal of an immigration court decision, the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit finds that Wikipedia's approach to community knowledge leaves it an unreliable source of information for legal matters.

Story : http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/isps-will -all-s.html If there's a candidate for the worst future violator of your privacy, look no further than the company you pay for broadband. So says University of Colorado law professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Ohm, who argues in a new article that ISPs have the means, motive and opportunity to kill your online privacy....

Story : http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/121849,thai -government-censors-internet-f The Thai government has decided to close down and block over 1600 websites, purportedly in the name of national security. Mun Patanotai, Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Minister, yesterday petitioned his country’s courts to close down some 400 Websites which apparently "...

Story : http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/2008 0903184514.aspx Google CEO Eric Schmidt says government regulation of Internet service providers (ISPs) is necessary. In fact, he said he thinks the entire concept of the Internet marketplace relies on it. Schmidt spoke to conservative bloggers at the Republican National Convention on September 3 in St. Paul, Minn. He warned ...

Story : http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/222558/police-lose-nat ional-hightech-crime-unit-webs The police have embarrassingly lost control of the National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) website. The NHTCU was folded into the Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCA) a couple of years ago, but sites such as the BBC still routinely link to the former NHTCU website - such as from this story about '...

Story : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080904-eu-r eport-women-objectified-in-gam A new report by Women's Rights Committee of the European Parliament asks hard questions about the use of women in advertising, but its comments on the depiction of women in gaming appear to be slightly misguided.

Story : http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/28/European _court_wont_stop_UK_hackers_ex The European Court of Human Rights has refused U.K. hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal against demands for his extradition to the U.S. McKinnon stands accused of breaking into computers belonging to NASA and the U.S. military, and had appealed against his extradition under Article 3 of the European ...

Story : http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/Comcast-A ppeals-FCC-Throttling-Ruling-9 While a lot was been made of the FCC's investigation and Comcast's shift to a "protocol agnostic" network management system, the recent FCC order (pdf) didn't actually punish Comcast, didn't request they do anything they didn't plan to do voluntarily, and might not even be enforceable in court anyway...

Story : http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/28/European _court_wont_stop_UK_hackers_ex The European Court of Human Rights has refused U.K. hacker Gary McKinnon's appeal against demands for his extradition to the U.S. McKinnon stands accused of breaking into computers belonging to NASA and the U.S. military, and had appealed against his extradition under Article 3 of the European ...

Story : http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/222558/police-lose-nat ional-hightech-crime-unit-webs The police have embarrassingly lost control of the National High-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) website. The NHTCU was folded into the Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCA) a couple of years ago, but sites such as the BBC still routinely link to the former NHTCU website - such as from this story about '...

One you see at home. One you see at work. So, what if you work from home, like I do? Does that mean I get to have 2 internets?

Story : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080904-eu-r eport-women-objectified-in-gam A new report by Women's Rights Committee of the European Parliament asks hard questions about the use of women in advertising, but its comments on the depiction of women in gaming appear to be slightly misguided.

Story : http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/isps-will -all-s.html If there's a candidate for the worst future violator of your privacy, look no further than the company you pay for broadband. So says University of Colorado law professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Ohm, who argues in a new article that ISPs have the means, motive and opportunity to kill your online privacy....

Story : http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.16/uk-data-re tention UK government intends to oblige ISPs and telephone companies to keep Internet personal data traffic for at least 12 months and local, health authorities and lots of other public bodies are to be given access to details of everyone's personal Internet information. On 15 August 2008, the Home Office published a ...

Story : http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/2008 0903184514.aspx Google CEO Eric Schmidt says government regulation of Internet service providers (ISPs) is necessary. In fact, he said he thinks the entire concept of the Internet marketplace relies on it. Schmidt spoke to conservative bloggers at the Republican National Convention on September 3 in St. Paul, Minn. He warned ...

Story : http://www.itworld.com/security/54579/survey-it-st aff-would-steal-secrets-if-lai Most IT staff would steal sensitive company information, including CEO's passwords and customer details, if they were laid off, according to a new survey from Cyber-Ark. A staggering 88 percent of IT administrators admitted they would take corporate secrets, if they were suddenly made redundant. ...

I did but once. Same here, I don't really see the attraction...for all intents and purposes, a podcast is like an RSS feed but in audio, however in many ways it's inferior to regular RSS feeds (because it's more limited, there's less choice of material, you can't copy-and-paste a part of it like you can with written text, nor can you scroll through it as easily, etc.) Maybe if I wanted to read a ...

Story : http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080902-appe als-court-smacks-down-judge-fo In an appeal of an immigration court decision, the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit finds that Wikipedia's approach to community knowledge leaves it an unreliable source of information for legal matters.