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Visual Basic Protest Won't Go Away
News The protest to save "classic" Visual Basic that started last week is not going away — with Microsoft execs set to face the music in a Web chat on Friday. More than 2,500 people have signed a petition, including 228 who have had the title of Most...
[March 18, 2005, 13:35]
Protest Fears Force World Bank Conference Online
News Police are concerned that protest groups are increasingly using new technology. The World Bank will hold its next development conference over the Internet in an attempt to avoid demonstrations against global capitalism.
[June 20, 2001, 14:29]
HP Defends Green Credentials Ahead Of Protest
News HP defended its efforts on Monday to curb e-waste ahead of a planned Greenpeace protest at its headquarters. The Greenpeace protest at HP follows several other such demonstrations. The environmental activist group plans to demonstrate at HP's...
[December 6, 2005, 8:05]
Software Patent Protest To Block Web Sites
News More than 600 Web sites are to take part in an online protest against a proposed European law on software patents, timed to coincide with a real-life protest in Brussels on Wednesday. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII...
[August 26, 2003, 14:00]
Hackers Question Denial Of Service As Political Protest
News The Electrohippies have published a report that claims the recent attacks were a statement against the commercial development of the Internet, and suggests this technique should be developed as a legitimate form of protest on the Net.
[March 13, 2000, 11:30]
Hackers Protest Embassy Bombing
News The Energy Department site read "Protest USA's Nazi action," abcnews.com said. Meanwhile, hackers also created their own Web site at killusa.abc.yesite.com/, which carried hundreds of messages of protest as well as entries calling for an organised...
[May 10, 1999, 7:56]
A Year Ago: Denial Of Service Attacks Loom In GM Food Protest
News Denial of Service strikes will coincide with GM protest week The group, which calls itself the "Electrohippies", warned in an email sent to ZDNet UK News that it intends to organise DoS strikes against these corporations to coincide with the global...
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
Workers Protest Over Call-centre Outsourcing
News Hundreds of BT directory enquiry employees who are members of the Communications Workers Union walked out of their offices between 11.30 a.m.and 2 p.m.on Thursday in protest at BT's plan to open call centres in India.
[March 20, 2003, 15:40]
.Info Chief Quits In Protest Over Sunrise Period
News The director of the official registry for .info domain names has resigned in protest against what he calls the "abomination" of the sunrise period. Robert Connelly, one of the 13 directors of Afilias, has handed in his notice less than a week...
[September 7, 2001, 13:48]
Developers And Mimes Protest Software Patents
News Several hundred demonstrators assembled in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels on Wednesday to protest a software-patents directive that critics say would wreak havoc on Europe's software industry.
[August 28, 2003, 15:35]
European Apple Fans Protest At Pricing
News Apple's "most affordable" Mac -- the Mac mini -- has drawn a storm of protest from European shoppers, who are petitioning Cupertino to bring EU pricing better in line with that of the US. The online petition states: "We'd like to make an appeal to...
[January 18, 2005, 8:50]
A Year Ago: Hackers Question Denial Of Service As Political Protest
News The Electrohippies have published a report that claims the recent attacks were a statement against the commercial development of the Internet, and suggests this technique should be developed as a legitimate form of protest on the Net.
[March 13, 2001, 6:03]
Patent Activists Protest In Brussels
News The demonstration was planned by European pressure group the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) to protest against the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID), which they fear will allow the widespread patenting of...
[February 18, 2005, 12:15]
Herbless The Hacker Supports Petrol Protest
News This web-page has been hacked as a public protest against government greed," reads his defacement. I urge you to help the protest using any non-violent, non-abusive means possible. In protest, truckers have blockaded UK oil refineries demanding...
[September 15, 2000, 10:11]
Software Patent Protest To Block Web Sites
Talkback "More than 600 websites took part in the blackout to protest software patents in Europe. More than 600? Try "nearly 3000" http://www.eurielec.etsit.upm.es/OnlineDemoPartnersWebsites.php
[September 2, 2003, 13:03]
European Apple Fans Protest At Pricing
Talkback UK price is £288.51 excluding sales tax, US prices quoted exclude sales tax.
[January 18, 2005, 10:30]
European Apple Fans Protest At Pricing
Talkback The $499 price tag in America is *ex*clusive of sales tax, because this varies from state to state. In the UK prices are advertised *in*clusive of VAT which accounts for £51.50 of the "extra" £71. Not quite such a rip-off, I believe.
[January 18, 2005, 11:17]
European Apple Fans Protest At Pricing
Talkback This is unbelievable. These people are, in effect, blaming Apple for the high sales taxes in Europe and for Europe's welfare systems. Idiotic! TR
[January 18, 2005, 11:23]
European Apple Fans Protest At Pricing
Talkback Apple are getting the blame for the neverending desire of our beloved government to tax us for everything possible. Again.
[January 18, 2005, 12:28]
European Apple Fans Protest At Pricing
Talkback Well buy into the Mac Myth and pay the price you all know they are excessively priced read em and weep
[January 18, 2005, 23:55]
