Basically, the French lawmakers have dropped all the provisions of the law that made it fair and left in all the provisions that make it utterly draconian.  I say we should skip all the dressing and go straight to corporal punishment for copyright infringment.
Who needs to imprison or execute rapists and murderers when there are […]

The American Gub’ment is continuing it’s war on porn.  Showing exactly how neutral ICANN is, they’ve forced the board to vote against the .xxx domain.  The rest of the world be damned, apparently.
If you didn’t know better, you’d be forgiven for thinking that porn is illegal in the States based on recent actions and onerous […]

Massachusetts is just abounding with special interest groups that don’t want the government to use Open Standards.  They’ll do everything from stifle innovation to give you cancer (but only in the state of California).  Funny how these groups come out of the woodwork to oppose any kind of standards yet remained silent on the fact […]

I’m starting to get back into the swing of writing with a bit of the op-ed on Linux.  This piece goes into why Freespire doesn’t pose a moral dillema and why no one really seems to care one way or the other.
PCBurn - PCBurn Editorial: Are Freespires Proprietary Packages a Problem?

Congress is concerned about your privacy as an American citizen (apologies to you Europeans.  You’ve already been screwed).  That’s why they’d like to require every ISP to record everything you do, period.  They’re very concerned that without that, you won’t have a private enough internet experience.
War is peace folks, up is down, and your dog […]

The EFF is suing ATT based on the fact that they’re allowing the .gov to wiretap customers without any form of warrant or congress granted permission.  As if to back up the allegation, the Bush group is attempting to label everything going on a “state secret” and stop any attempt to sue ATT because they’re […]

MIT doesn’t have quite the spirit it used to in regards to rebelious behaviour.  Once upon a time, marking out the whole of the Harvard bridge in measures of a student didn’t ellicit much more than a chuckle.
These days, however, you can’t even hold up a sign protesting a speakers employer without being harrased.  Which […]

Chalk up a loss for the RIAA in their fight against America.  Seems they didn’t even bother responding to a court order in the case against Brittany Chan to provide a functional way to get her the Guardian Ad Litem they insisted on.
In light of the inexplicable lack of response from the RIAA on the […]

Microsoft has a surprise for “pirates” alright.  It’s a surprise involving the fact that there’s nothing to “pirate” in Vista.
If you were trying to stop people from infringing on your licensing scheme, what would you do? You’d disable the ability of said people to use your software, right? Or at least give it […]

For those of you not in the know, NTP servers are a convenient way of keeping time. Your operating system or device can be configured via an NTP client to go and query one, then establish the correct time for your machine based on the response. Most people use a pool of ntp […]