Given the recent blatherings out of Tom Cruise (he’s straight, really) is there a possibility the mainstream press is afraid of Scientology?
Given the “church”’s predilection for suing the crap out of its critics (their “scriptures” are copyrighted, which helps) it’s not all that hard to believe.
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Tom Adelstein has been Following Bill Gates’ Linux Attack Money.
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Wow, nothing attracts lawsuits like a successful product.
Sadly, we’re suing our innovators overseas.
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Our messed up copyright situation has made some photofinishers decline to print photos that looked “too professional” in fear of being accused of copyright violations.
This is definitely not what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
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Who Cares if Analog TV Goes Dark? I do, for one. There are still people, like me, who don’t have cable or satellite and don’t care to.
Could it be the source of this “data” has an agenda? Of course not.
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The Open CRS Network puts reports from the Congressional Research Service online for you, the taxpayer, to read. Find out what your congressional representative is being told.
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Suck.com was a pioneering website from the earliest days of the web. The Big Fish tells the story.
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More search engine newness: Yahoo!’s My Web 2.0 a collaborative web search engine that uses your contact list to check for sites your friends may have visited. You have to sign up for a number of other Yahoo! services to use it, so beware.
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Grokker claims to be a new way to search, presenting your search results in a graphical network format.
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A federal judge dismissed Novell’s attempt to have SCO’s claims thrown out of court, so the Novell vs. SCO trial over who owns the Unix copyrights moves back into the discovery phase. This thing has been going on since 2003, so don’t expect a speedy resolution.
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Somewhat overlooked in the hoopla over the SCOTUS Grokster ruling was the so-called “BrandX” decision that relieved cable carriers from having to allow third-party ISPs access to their systems. Susan Crawford believes BrandX is far more important than Grokster because of the power that’s been handed to the FCC. Both cases combined mean it’s likely [...]

Another Independent Media Center server has been seized by UK police and a volunteer arrested. This one seems timed to the G8 Summit in Scotland.
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