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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]
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]
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]
Letter of Protest to ASUS
Blog So, I have written a letter of protest to ASUS, and I encourage anyone else who is a current ASUS computer owner, or who might consider buying one in the future, and who is interested in free choice and openness in operating systems, to do the same.
[July 23, 2009, 10:26]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
.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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Irish developers protest against patents
Talkback I wish I had a crystal ball or could tell the future, I wish I could just say "it's gonna be alright, the bill won't pass", but I really can't tell. The whole of Europe don't want this, its just a few people being paid to do this.
[March 17, 2005, 20:24]
Irish developers protest against patents
Talkback Conflict of interest or not. There have been enough incidents to ask serious questions to certain, political, people. And such questions haven't been ask yet by the right, powerfull enough, persons. And they certainly haven't been answered in any...
[March 17, 2005, 21:28]
Privacy groups protest RFID tagging of razors
Talkback Does anyone know how the data in these tags is read? Is it specific to the company scanning the chips (and untillegible) to anyone else. Or can anyone buy an rfid reader and wander around obtaining meaningful information about what other people...
[August 19, 2003, 11:04]
Privacy groups protest RFID tagging of razors
Talkback folks: here is something to ponder: rfid is originally designed to tag cows! RFID works like this: an antenna (usually huge ones) emit a radio wave that 'ask' nearby tags to report themself.the tag is a passive device, with no battery.it gains the...
[August 26, 2003, 2:07]
