Big Brother

Gnomie Chris Johnson writes:
Well, it seems your elected members are rather more clued up and willing to work than our British versions.
There has been scant coverage of this in the US (and I have been warning you about it too), but members of your government have finally picked up on it. Over here in the [...]

The SaveTheInternet.com coalition launched a campaign this week to support “Net neutrality,” and to oppose legislation in Congress that would allow backbone providers and telcos to give preferential treatment to companies that pay to have their Web sites delivered more quickly on their networks. Peacefire is a charter member of the coalition.

Jason Dunn of Digital Media Thoughts writes:
A couple of days ago my wife came with with a CD she purchased: the new Backstreet Boys album, “Never Gone.” Now, normally I’d immediately grab it, douse it with lighter fluid, and light it on fire - but I happen to think the new single, “Incomplete” is [...]

“Last month 227 British government workers were punished or fired for downloading a total 2 million pages of porn during an eight-month period. Such inappropriate Internet use, though surprising, isn’t uncommon if a new, international survey is accurate.
A third of some 350 employees at randomly selected U.S., U.K. and Australian companies said they download porn [...]

“Having recently read about Microsoft saying that those running illegal copies of XP would be able to install SP2, I was curious about what ‘big brother’ was really up to (I am not in any way anti-Microsoft). I put a copy of XP VOL on a test machine with an unregistered installation key and installed [...]