Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to add a specific privacy protection, one that takes into account the myriad ways personal data can be traded/sold etc.?
c'mon slashdotters. get the facts right. Yahoo just republishes news from lots of other vendors. This piece is by a PC Magazine writer, and I'm sure he'd like to get the credit.
washingtonpost.com spent three months following a Northern Virginia team as it conceived and built its DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle. Check out the video, and read a related story from today's Washington Post.
Friends, Congress is debating a bill to permanently extend the federal ban on taxing Internet access -- like DSL, cable ISP etc. Several states can actually tax these services under a grandfather clause in the original moratorium. The new bill would ban access taxes everywhere.
This is NOT about sales taxes. That's a whole other debate. If you want to know more about it, go here.
Today's Washington Post reports that the major automakers are abandoning their electric car research programs, putting all their eggs into development of hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells.
Minor quibble, but I've noticed that/. postings often say 'CNN is reporting...' or 'The N.Y. Times says...,' when in fact the link goes to a story written by one of the news wires, like the Associated Press or Reuters. In the case of this posting, it's AP reporting the Patent Office backlog, not WTOP radio.
Very funny, but no relation. The only relation is that we are both employed by The Washington Post Co. I just thought Slasdot readers would enjoy the link.
Washington Post technology columnist Leslie Walker writes about There in her column today. Excerpt: It's meant to be a destination where people can do lots of things -- race dune buggies, fly on hoverboards, flirt, hang out with their dogs -- but it has no defined objectives. "There" offers tools for people to create their own worlds and virtual lifestyles. The company also hopes to make money licensing its tools to other companies such as ski resorts to create their own virtual environments."
Today's Washington Post has a feature story on employee blogs and the legal problems that can follow workers who post any sort of company info., from the mundane to the specific.
Read The Washington Post's article, which notes: "The new institute, which will aim to create stem cell therapies for cancer and other diseases, is to be established with $12 million from an anonymous donor. Under a Bush administration policy announced last year, federally funded researchers wishing to work with human embryonic stem cells must limit their endeavors to a small number of approved cell colonies created before Aug. 9, 2001. But because the Stanford institute will be privately funded, researchers there will be able to create and experiment on new colonies."
Read Post reporter Shannon Henry's take on the same study -- online here.
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washingtonpost.com's story quotes several small webcasters praising the compromise bill. According to the article, the bill "does not establish specific royalty rates for webcasters. Instead, it authorizes the music industry's principal royalty collector, SoundExchange, to negotiate binding royalty contracts with small webcasters on behalf of all artists and record labels." Strange footnote: Sen. Jesse Helms had a big stake in the bill as he successfully protected small religious webcasters from the royalty axe.
Read it here. Note that the "new language would grant NeuStar an extra two years on its four-year contract to operate dot-us if it upholds its dot-kids obligations. The legislation also would allow NeuStar to throw its hat into the ring when the government re-bids the dot-us contract."
The Washington Post article on this has this nifty nugget: "Bentley said the experiment should not be confused with industry efforts to agree on a general standard for interoperability of separate instant-messaging programs. AOL says it is worried that such connections could compromise the security of its systems and expose users to more unwanted appeals from strangers and other junk messages."
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washingtonpost.com first reported on the ICANN Site Finder report last Friday (July 9). Read the story here.
Check out the original link from washingtonpost.com; includes links to archival materials, the study etc.
Longer version of article is online here.
Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to add a specific privacy protection, one that takes into account the myriad ways personal data can be traded/sold etc.?
c'mon slashdotters. get the facts right. Yahoo just republishes news from lots of other vendors. This piece is by a PC Magazine writer, and I'm sure he'd like to get the credit.
washingtonpost.com spent three months following a Northern Virginia team as it conceived and built its DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle. Check out the video, and read a related story from today's Washington Post.
Please check out washingtonpost.com's more detailed report on the new group's goals.
Friends, Congress is debating a bill to permanently extend the federal ban on taxing Internet access -- like DSL, cable ISP etc. Several states can actually tax these services under a grandfather clause in the original moratorium. The new bill would ban access taxes everywhere.
This is NOT about sales taxes. That's a whole other debate. If you want to know more about it, go here.
Today's Washington Post reports that the major automakers are abandoning their electric car research programs, putting all their eggs into development of hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells.
Minor quibble, but I've noticed that /. postings often say 'CNN is reporting...' or 'The N.Y. Times says...,' when in fact the link goes to a story written by one of the news wires, like the Associated Press or Reuters. In the case of this posting, it's AP reporting the Patent Office backlog, not WTOP radio.
Very funny, but no relation. The only relation is that we are both employed by The Washington Post Co. I just thought Slasdot readers would enjoy the link.
No relation, but yes, we both work for The Washington Post Co.
Cindy Webb, author of the Filter column on washingtonpost.com, surveyed the media landscape in her column on Thursday.
Washington Post technology columnist Leslie Walker writes about There in her column today. Excerpt: It's meant to be a destination where people can do lots of things -- race dune buggies, fly on hoverboards, flirt, hang out with their dogs -- but it has no defined objectives. "There" offers tools for people to create their own worlds and virtual lifestyles. The company also hopes to make money licensing its tools to other companies such as ski resorts to create their own virtual environments."
washingtonpost.com also features a short video look inside the Symantec operations center in Alexandria, Va.
TechNews.com's Cynthia L. Webb surveys the media coverage of CES in her daily column today.
Check out Washington Post article: Student Accused of Taking DirecTV Data: Hacker Sites Got Documents, FBI Says
Today's Washington Post has a feature story on employee blogs and the legal problems that can follow workers who post any sort of company info., from the mundane to the specific.
Read The Washington Post's article, which notes: "The new institute, which will aim to create stem cell therapies for cancer and other diseases, is to be established with $12 million from an anonymous donor. Under a Bush administration policy announced last year, federally funded researchers wishing to work with human embryonic stem cells must limit their endeavors to a small number of approved cell colonies created before Aug. 9, 2001. But because the Stanford institute will be privately funded, researchers there will be able to create and experiment on new colonies."
Read Post reporter Shannon Henry's take on the same study -- online here.
washingtonpost.com's story quotes several small webcasters praising the compromise bill. According to the article, the bill "does not establish specific royalty rates for webcasters. Instead, it authorizes the music industry's principal royalty collector, SoundExchange, to negotiate binding royalty contracts with small webcasters on behalf of all artists and record labels." Strange footnote: Sen. Jesse Helms had a big stake in the bill as he successfully protected small religious webcasters from the royalty axe.
Read it here. Note that the "new language would grant NeuStar an extra two years on its four-year contract to operate dot-us if it upholds its dot-kids obligations. The legislation also would allow NeuStar to throw its hat into the ring when the government re-bids the dot-us contract."
How could one 5500KM cable link the mother country in Europe to all its colonies in Africa, south Asia, Australia and the Americas???
The Washington Post article on this has this nifty nugget: "Bentley said the experiment should not be confused with industry efforts to agree on a general standard for interoperability of separate instant-messaging programs. AOL says it is worried that such connections could compromise the security of its systems and expose users to more unwanted appeals from strangers and other junk messages."
The ICANN "reform" plan that ousts Auerbach etc. has been in the works for months, so this is hardly breathless breaking news.