Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 1,017 Views
Earlier today, I spent a very unproductive hour at a local Social Security Administration office. On the way in, I noticed an interesting sign with the following language:
WARNING
Title 41, United States Code, Section 102-74.420
PHOTOGRAPHY PROHIBITED
Federal law prohibits pictures taking in or on Federal property without the verbal or expressed written ...
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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 560 Views
From the NYT:
The Federal Education Department shared personal information on hundreds of student loan applicants with the Federal Bureau of Investigation across a five-year period that began after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the agencies said yesterday.
Under the program, called Project Strikeback, the Education Department received names from the F.B.I. ...
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006 807 Views
One of the comments on my previous post asked for a formal letter so others can submit requests to the NSA as well for their records. The procedure is really easy - a sample letter and the actual procedure is described very clearly on the NSA website. The crux is ...
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Friday, May 26th, 2006 3,723 Views
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Two weeks ago when USA TODAY published their famous story about a database of telephone records maintained by the NSA on all Americans, I decided to test my luck and ...
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Saturday, December 17th, 2005 1,015 Views
This came from Slashdot - a story about a student being visited by two Homeland Security officers after requesting a book for research via interlibrary loan:
A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism ...
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 557 Views
By sheer chance I ran across two separate articles discussing a new law under consideration in the Russian Duma (i.e. Parliament). Among other things this law "further increases government control of NGOs, allowing official oversight of their finances and activities". It also would "prohibit foreign organizations from opening branches in ...
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 490 Views
I just ran across a CNET article discussing a new cybercrime treaty. What is interesting to note is this part:
An addition to the treaty would require nations to imprison anyone guilty of "insulting publicly, through a computer system" certain groups of people based on characteristics such as race or ethnic ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 936 Views
USA Today is running a story about new guidelines on background checks from the Transportation Security Administration:
The federal government plans to begin collecting the full names and birth dates of air travelers this summer in its latest effort to screen passengers for possible links to terrorism. In a few weeks, ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 590 Views
There has been quite some talk on the 'Net and in the media about whether giving permission to the government for the use of commercial database services will help with fighting terrorism. I recently ordered a report from one of these companies, Axciom and frankly the results that I got ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005 564 Views
The NY Post is reporting (via Drudge)that a fire knocked out an entire subway line in NYC for 5 years:
A fire in a subway control room has put the C line out of service for up to five years and caused serious problems on the A line that will make ...
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 429 Views
From an AP story (via Dani):
A judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law — the first state law to penalize senders of junk e-mail — is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders. Last week's ruling, which threw out a lawsuit against a New York e-mail ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004 475 Views
Two newsites (RIA and Lenta.ru) reported today that Russia has asked Interpol to declare Yulia Timoshenko, a very popular member of the Ukraine's opposition, a fugitive. It is well known that Russia opposses the Ukraine opposition since it is pro-Western. But to resort to such dirty tricks in public by ...
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004 480 Views
Some time ago I mentioned a new political action comitee called "IPAC" focused on addressing some of the problems with the current IP laws. They just opened a blog which seems to be an interesting read.
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Monday, November 22nd, 2004 431 Views
A Yahoo story (via SlashDot) mentions a hidden feature in color laser printers:
According to experts, several printer companies quietly encode the serial number and the manufacturing code of their color laser printers and color copiers on every document those machines produce. Governments, including the United States, already use the hidden ...
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2004 527 Views
I mentioned earlier a report that the Democrats are preparing to sue if they lose. Well, it looks like the lawsuits have begin - a Washington Times story describes nine lawsuits filed by the Democrats in Florida in regards to voting (via Drudge). And now comes another report that armies ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 528 Views
Its a week before the elections and the mass media is trying to out do each other while digging up dirt on both candidates. Of course, they are so desperate that some of the stuff they come up with is off the wall.
Yesterday the New York Times ran a front ...
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2004 549 Views
The UK's Guardian, never a friend to the US, has just published an article ending with an assasination threat to President Bush (via Drudge):
On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once ...
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