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Russia Gets Ready To Gag Online Dissent
News Russia's parliament may give final approval this week to sweeping restrictions on using the Internet to oppose the government. At the request of President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Duma voted 272 to 126 last week in favor of the offline and...
[June 25, 2002, 9:29]
Patent Directive Adoption Just Days Away
Talkback Links for registering Dissent? When an article like this is published, can you include easy links for browsers to use to register their dissent. Wd don't get much time per day as is, but I would take the time to email whoever in the EU if I knew who.
[January 25, 2005, 10:11]
Yahoo Free Speech Battle Thrown Out
News In a dissent on Thursday, a minority of 9th Circuit judges echoed that argument. Censoring speech we find repugnant does not comport with our cherished First Amendment," the dissent said. A divided federal appeals court on Thursday ducked the...
[January 13, 2006, 8:15]
Supreme Court Nixes Copyright Challenge
News In a 22-page dissent that chronicled the development of intellectual property law since the 1790 act, justice John Paul Stevens said that by declining to review the copyright extension, the court has ceded to Congress "its principal responsibility...
[January 16, 2003, 9:09]
A Critique Of The Terrorism Suppression Bill
White Papers This Bill represents a serious assault on civil liberties and the right to dissent. This article discusses the Terrorism Suppression Bill. It bestows greater powers and less accountability on state agencies that have systematically abused the...
[November 6, 2004, 2:00]
Patients Can 'opt Out' Of NHS IT System
News Speaking at a conference in London last week, health minister Lord Warner confirmed patients will have the right to "dissent" and opt out from having their medical information shared as part of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme.
[October 31, 2006, 8:45]
Strategic Effects Of Conflict With Iraq: Australia And New Zealand
White Papers Australia supports the U.S.action with or without U.N.approval, although significant unease and dissent are also evident in the country. War with Iraq signals the beginning of a new era in American national security policy and alters strategic...
[December 28, 2004, 2:00]
Heroes Of Might And Magic II Gold
Downloads Having crushed his enemies, consolidated his power base, and eliminated dissent at the end of Heroes of Might and Magic; Lord Ironfist settled down to rule the land of Enroth. After 25 years of peace, the land is again thrust into turmoil.
[December 5, 2006, 13:29]
SDMI Looking Frail
News It has been plagued by reports of dissent and looks increasingly frail. The future of the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) was thrown into doubt Monday with one industry insider claiming its members expect the initiative to fail.
[October 6, 1999, 16:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The early days of Linux were rich seams of instant dissent too. Thursday 25/03/2004 The more cynical online journalists know that there's always an easy way to get the hits up: diss Apple. It used to be Acorn -- laugh openly at the Archimedes, and...
[March 26, 2004, 16:15]
Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics
Leader This relentlessly corporatist approach has its detractors, and ZDNet UK is proud to count itself as a voice of dissent. The Business Software Alliance has been busy. As 'the voice of the world's commercial software industry', it has been assiduous...
[June 24, 2005, 15:25]
EV Nova
Downloads Like a wave in the darkness of space, colonization flowed outwards from Earth, until discord and dissent against a growingly corrupt central government caused it to come crashing down. EV Nova is the third game in the Escape Velocity series, and is...
[November 23, 2007, 11:20]
Staff Threaten KPNQwest Shutdown
News The dissent appearts to come from staff on the Ebone European backbone, which was bought by KPNQwest earlier this year. The efforts of liquidators to keep the KPNQwest network running could fail after all, as the put-upon staff issued a threat to...
[June 14, 2002, 13:55]
Google-DoubleClick Deal Gets US Green Light
News In her dissent, commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour said she was inclined to make "alternate predictions about where this market is heading, and the transformative role the combined Google/DoubleClick will play if the proposed acquisition is...
[December 21, 2007, 7:34]
Supreme Court Allows Handover Of Intel Documents To EU
News In a dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer said his colleagues interpreted federal law to "extend beyond what I believe Congress might reasonably have intended. The US Supreme Court ruled 7-1 on Monday that confidential Intel documents can be turned over...
[June 21, 2004, 17:05]
How To Lead The Unleadable
Leader Even large, ambitious programs can fail through dissent or creeping apathy — both symptoms of failed leadership by no means unknown in the proprietary world. How do you lead people you don't pay and can't sack?
[February 8, 2008, 14:15]
TV Without Frontiers, Lawmakers In Tears
News A common thread running through the dissent concerns the haziness of the proposals. Question: In an age of YouTube, on-demand programming and DIY video, how do you define and regulate television? This is the dilemma that has European legislators...
[July 11, 2006, 15:35]
Overture Founder Set To Unveil New Search Venture
News Against popular dissent, Overture sought to commercialise Internet search by allowing marketers to bid for a higher position in query results. Bill Gross, the driving force behind commercial search pioneer Overture Services, is once again going for...
[October 5, 2004, 10:40]
Mr Moto Falling
Leader Instead, we see all the signs of confusion and internal dissent: multiple parallel development efforts that go nowhere; unexpected success producing reactive, tactical moves devoid of long-term thinking; and product lines that are bafflingly out...
[January 24, 2008, 16:03]
Walter Hewlett Dumped From HP Board
News It is unfortunate that the HP board has seemingly missed what the company's stockholders have clearly recognised: that dissent is not disloyalty, that healthy boards need not agree on every issue and that while management and board may run a...
[April 2, 2002, 10:49]
