http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121206/14371621263/appeals-court-holds-firm-government-cannot-be-sued-violating-its-own-wiretapping-laws.shtml#c273 Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:29:56 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121206/14371621263/appeals-court-holds-firm-government-cannot-be-sued-violating-its-own-wiretapping-laws.shtml#c273 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121206/14371621263/appeals-court-holds-firm-government-cannot-be-sued-violating-its-own-wiretapping-laws.shtml#c261 Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:28:09 PST http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121206/14371621263/appeals-court-holds-firm-government-cannot-be-sued-violating-its-own-wiretapping-laws.shtml#c261
Who's to stop the Govt from illegally spying on us?

"William Binney, a former official with the National Security Agency, recently said that domestic surveillance in the U.S. has increased under President Obama, and trillions of phone calls, emails and other messages sent by U.S. citizens have been intercepted by the government."

"In the closing lines of a documentary by Laura Poitas, Binney notes that just because 'we call ourselves a democracy, it doesn]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-korea-still-paying-price-embracing-internet-explorer-decade-ago.shtml#c1036 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:12:09 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-korea-still-paying-price-embracing-internet-explorer-decade-ago.shtml#c1036
Govt policies create Monopolies by removing competition.
Cable providers
Utilities
Obamacare]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/16490418853/federal-appeals-court-rejects-illinois-eavesdropping-law-as-likely-violating-first-amendment.shtml#c1623 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:07:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/16490418853/federal-appeals-court-rejects-illinois-eavesdropping-law-as-likely-violating-first-amendment.shtml#c1623 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121025/01504120821/brein-scores-another-victory-making-it-suck-even-more-to-be-dutch-internet-company.shtml#c159 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:42:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121025/01504120821/brein-scores-another-victory-making-it-suck-even-more-to-be-dutch-internet-company.shtml#c159 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121020/22441420774/is-it-ethical-american-bar-association-to-claim-copyright-its-ethics-opinions.shtml#c225 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:53:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121020/22441420774/is-it-ethical-american-bar-association-to-claim-copyright-its-ethics-opinions.shtml#c225 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121016/17553220724/sad-75-year-old-explanation-why-copyrights-are-bad-locked-up-behind-paywall.shtml#c1334 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:53:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121016/17553220724/sad-75-year-old-explanation-why-copyrights-are-bad-locked-up-behind-paywall.shtml#c1334 JSTOR founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with a broad mission to help the academic community take advantage of advances in new technologies.

1997
JSTOR launches a pioneering shared online library of high quality digitized journal back issues to help academic institutions save costs associated with the preservation and storage of library materials and to improve access to scholarship.

http://about.jstor.org/about]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120924/21453920504/partisan-piracy-conservative-filmmakers-accuse-obama-supporters-uploading-their-film-to-youtube.shtml#c734 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:35:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120924/21453920504/partisan-piracy-conservative-filmmakers-accuse-obama-supporters-uploading-their-film-to-youtube.shtml#c734 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120924/21453920504/partisan-piracy-conservative-filmmakers-accuse-obama-supporters-uploading-their-film-to-youtube.shtml#c718 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:23:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120924/21453920504/partisan-piracy-conservative-filmmakers-accuse-obama-supporters-uploading-their-film-to-youtube.shtml#c718
From Websters: Media - a singular or plural in construction : MASS MEDIA
b plural : members of the mass media]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120924/21453920504/partisan-piracy-conservative-filmmakers-accuse-obama-supporters-uploading-their-film-to-youtube.shtml#c575 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:58:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120924/21453920504/partisan-piracy-conservative-filmmakers-accuse-obama-supporters-uploading-their-film-to-youtube.shtml#c575
Media's main purpose, which they have abandoned, is to apply healthy skepticism TO ALL to bring out the truth, just like scientists that use the scientific method.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120801/21294019913/why-tragedies-result-overreactions-our-brains-arent-very-good-risk-analysis.shtml#c40 Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:22:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120801/21294019913/why-tragedies-result-overreactions-our-brains-arent-very-good-risk-analysis.shtml#c40
The (anti)Patriot Act

OR

2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) with the indefinite detention bill embedded?

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detention_bill/]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120803/03465719922/california-bet-2-its-budget-facebooks-stock-price-remaining-high.shtml#c267 Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:04:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120803/03465719922/california-bet-2-its-budget-facebooks-stock-price-remaining-high.shtml#c267 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120731/01341819888/patent-office-seeking-comments-how-to-implement-first-to-file-regime-instead-first-to-invent.shtml#c447 Wed, 1 Aug 2012 11:31:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120731/01341819888/patent-office-seeking-comments-how-to-implement-first-to-file-regime-instead-first-to-invent.shtml#c447
Any dumbass can sit around and file some vaguely worded idea that some dumbass at the patent office will approve. To actually make ideas work is what takes the talent. There are hundreds of patents that exist only because they were filed first, they were not put into production AND work first.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120725/06093819827/truth-erroring-ietf-proposal-includes-new-451-censorship-error-code.shtml#c172 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:01:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120725/06093819827/truth-erroring-ietf-proposal-includes-new-451-censorship-error-code.shtml#c172 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120713/04272619683/uk-government-wants-to-give-itself-power-to-change-copyright-law-without-full-parliamentary-scrutiny.shtml#c655 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:45:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120713/04272619683/uk-government-wants-to-give-itself-power-to-change-copyright-law-without-full-parliamentary-scrutiny.shtml#c655
He held particular contempt for factions within the govt who were not answerable to the people and not subject to scrutiny or Parliamentary debate (Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Plenty & Ministry of Love).

The UK is clearly moving down the 1984 path by using the likes of]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120719/13593119764/heres-proposal-fcc-says-doesnt-exist-to-move-network-diagnostics-to-proprietary-servers.shtml#c145 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:41:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120719/13593119764/heres-proposal-fcc-says-doesnt-exist-to-move-network-diagnostics-to-proprietary-servers.shtml#c145 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120518/11473118974/if-youre-silicon-valley-come-talk-with-rep-jason-chaffetz-about-how-we-prevent-another-sopa.shtml#c41 Mon, 21 May 2012 17:22:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120518/11473118974/if-youre-silicon-valley-come-talk-with-rep-jason-chaffetz-about-how-we-prevent-another-sopa.shtml#c41
Rep. Chaffetz sounds like the kind of guy that would a least get the bill some press, that's all it took for SOPA to get pulled.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/16490418853/federal-appeals-court-rejects-illinois-eavesdropping-law-as-likely-violating-first-amendment.shtml#c503 Thu, 10 May 2012 13:17:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/16490418853/federal-appeals-court-rejects-illinois-eavesdropping-law-as-likely-violating-first-amendment.shtml#c503 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/16490418853/federal-appeals-court-rejects-illinois-eavesdropping-law-as-likely-violating-first-amendment.shtml#c458 Thu, 10 May 2012 12:42:02 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/16490418853/federal-appeals-court-rejects-illinois-eavesdropping-law-as-likely-violating-first-amendment.shtml#c458
Regardless if you believe in a Creator or not, why do you think an "absolute right" has to be written? A Natural Right is an Absolute Right vs a Legal Right that Govt can strip away if they see fit.

Isn't the right to live an absolute right?
Isn't the right to liberty an absolute right?

Your thinking process regarding rights is dangerous to others.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-korea-still-paying-price-embracing-internet-explorer-decade-ago.shtml#c571 Thu, 10 May 2012 11:18:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120507/12295718818/south-korea-still-paying-price-embracing-internet-explorer-decade-ago.shtml#c571 ]]>