Thursday, February 23, 2006

Making money - White House Civil-Liberties Panel Yet to Meet


White House Civil-Liberties Panel Yet to Meet
Seattle Times - WASHINGTON For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in the White House whose purpose is to

Today's Column: Passengers Order Up Pie-in-the-Sky Airline Amenities
Washington Post - Imagine boarding an aircraft and seeing a makeshift office set up where passengers can access the Internet, send and receive faxes, and make phone calls for a fee. Or how about in the back of the aircraft -- a hot dog stand with someone asking if you

head-to-head comparison
Mac Central - Another day, another MacBook Pro-vs.-comparable-PC comparison. As some readers may know, I wrote up a comparison Monday between the Intel-based MacBook Pro and a similarly-configured Dell laptop . I was inspired to make such a comparison after

Second murder trial begins in Montgomery
Asheboro Courier-Tribune - TROY The second trial of Joseph Matthew Johnston, accused of the murder of retired Montgomery County magistrate Hubert Chase Greene, began in District Superior Count in Troy on Tuesday. Greene, who was 84, was found dead of strangulation and stab

What type of society do anarchists want to live in?
Boston IMC - Text of a Workers Solidarity Movement contribution to the Marxism v Anarchism debate organised by the (Irish) Socialist Party / CWI Anarchism essentially sees a free society where everybody has the opportunity to live as they want as achievable. But

LEE DRUTMAN: Google's dilemma
Beaufort Gazette - BERKELEY, Calif. (SH) - Google, that wondrous little Internet start-up whose market capitalization is now roughly twice that of the entire national newspaper industry (depending on its stock price on a given day), created a bit of a stir recently by

AIM Aims for Business
Motley Fool - Time Warner's AIM hopes corporate users will pay up. Instant messaging has certainly come a long way since its days of being dismissed as "kids' stuff," and that fact certainly has not been lost on the Internet giants with IM clients. Of course, it

Radio First
KGO - Feb. 20 - KGO - Long before the iPod, the Internet, cell phones and computers, even before TV, there was box with no picture and it was called radio. One Bay Area man had a lot more to do with radio than you may have known. A professor of anything is

since her case was revealed
Tech Dirt - from the about-time dept. Ever since the RIAA started filing lawsuits directly against people for sharing music online, we've wondered why no one fought back and took the case to court in the US. As the courts in Canada have noted, simply having the