I thought I remembered this story (or a similar one) here and here from 2002.
It seems that the FCC was enforcing regulations that forced cable companies to unbundle PPV and premium channels such as HBO. Reading through the second article it seems that this current call for change is what people were asking for all along. Both the calls for changes and reasons for not going al a carte are given.
I would say that said enforcement hasn't made much of a difference in the last two years.
Check out http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm
A google news search today shows several states using the above as reason for updating their system to electronic voting.
Lott may have done 'the right thing' by trying to keep this bill from passing. There was another/. article not very long ago More on Internet Privacy Legislation and a link from it A law to protect spyware that shows how this bill is not all that great for our privacy.
One point that the article makes is that this bill would "place a congressional stamp of approval on precisely the kinds of practices that purveyors of spyware are eager to engage in" and "the nonsensitive clause is a huge gaping loophole through which business will ride roughshod."
Before we blast Lott for this, we should get a good idea of what the bill does based off of something other than its name (which of course was given to it by Sen. Fritz Hollings!)
I'm not saying that Lott is working for our better good, or even that he is thinking of people like us, but we should take a good look at this thing before we complain that someone kept it from passing.
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I thought I remembered this story (or a similar one) here and here from 2002.
It seems that the FCC was enforcing regulations that forced cable companies to unbundle PPV and premium channels such as HBO. Reading through the second article it seems that this current call for change is what people were asking for all along. Both the calls for changes and reasons for not going al a carte are given.
I would say that said enforcement hasn't made much of a difference in the last two years.
Check out http://www.fec.gov/hava/hava.htm A google news search today shows several states using the above as reason for updating their system to electronic voting.
You can buy something very similar to the goggles here http://www.aeinnovations.com/forsale/gal7/
Lott may have done 'the right thing' by trying to keep this bill from passing. There was another /. article not very long ago More on Internet Privacy Legislation and a link from it A law to protect spyware that shows how this bill is not all that great for our privacy.
One point that the article makes is that this bill would "place a congressional stamp of approval on precisely the kinds of practices that purveyors of spyware are eager to engage in" and "the nonsensitive clause is a huge gaping loophole through which business will ride roughshod."
Before we blast Lott for this, we should get a good idea of what the bill does based off of something other than its name (which of course was given to it by Sen. Fritz Hollings!)
I'm not saying that Lott is working for our better good, or even that he is thinking of people like us, but we should take a good look at this thing before we complain that someone kept it from passing.
AHP