FC: Chicago cops surf for child porn, lose Internet privileges

--- From: "Z uker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cops in Chicago call cops in Philly to turn themselves in. Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:20:37 + Maybe we should get these two police departments together and see who wins. Cops face Internet curbs after child porn found By

FC: So much for the domain name gold rush: Verisign stock cut in half

[Let me get this right. Verisign spent $21 billion in 2000, according to the article below, to buy Network Solutions. As of today, the market capitalization of the combined Verisign-NetSoln entity is just $2.4 billion. (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=vrsn&d=t) --Declan] --- http://www.marketwatch.

FC: Viacom loses bid for mtv.com.sg, Singapore says MTV is "generic"

--- Subject: Viacom loses domain name ruling in Singapore Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:14:00 +0800 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Declan, It will be interesting to see what happens next. This puts a whole new spin on domain names: trade/servicemarked terms may have becom

FC: Pedro de Alzaga: Spain's website regulations are worrying

Pedro writes about technology for El Pais, Spain's most influential newspaper (he is also someone I met both in Madrid and in Huesca, when I was speaking at the III Congreso Nacional de Periodismo Digital, http://www.congresoperiodismo.com/ earlier this year). Previous Politech message: "Jose

FC: North Korea takes reassuringly hard line against... typewriters!

--- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 22:19:01 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Robert Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: N. Korea preventing typewriter proliferation Declan North Korea may not be fully cooperating with the world's attempts to control the spread of nuclear weapons, but they are taking

FC: Cops don't need warrants to bug vehicles, Nevada high court says

The Nevada Supreme Court has said police may plant tracking devices on or underneath people's cars without a search warrant. The decision is here: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/scd/118NevAdvOpNo32.html >"...in order for an unreasonable search or seizure to exist, the >complaining individual must h

FC: Emory U. prof who wrote guns-were-rare book says email was forged

Here's what Emory University prof. Michael Bellesiles has to say: http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2001nov/bellesiles.html http://www.emory.edu/HISTORY/BELLESILES/ And that of critics: http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment112601.shtml http://www.gunowners.org/opagny02pt28.htm http://www.s