Archive for June 23rd, 2006
Ownership of Information
Since AT&T has claimed that all customer data is owned by them, and since a good deal of general Internet traffic passes over their backbone network, we now face the possibility that AT&T will claim that anyone using their network in passing is an indirect customer. They can therefore conceivably claim ownership of anything passing [...]
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White House Says Tracking Bank Data Deters Terror (New York Times)
I think the administration is counting on us feeling "scandal fatigue" at this point and they’re dribbling these programs out one at a time. They seem to think that Americans want the government to spy on us, or at least that’s what they claim. [...]
But What About the Jews?
Reading blogs like Lauren’s, one comes to realize how hard it is for certain segments of our society to make it in certain fields. Speculative fiction is certainly no exception, due to tradition, tastes, or perhaps a dose of autism lack of human affect in certain markets. And women aren’t the only minorities (well, they’re [...]
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