http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-22T16:02:36-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/22/the_internet_as_a_political_issue.php Generally, political issues involving the Internet are handled by elites. Voters don't understand things like the "Brand X" decision, or the ICANN mess. All they care about is that the resource is there when they want it, at some price... 49117@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-02-22T16:02:36-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/22/google_images_ruled_illegal.php Google's Image Search service is illegal. U.S. District Judge Harold Matz of Los Angeles delivered this stunner in a suit originally filed by a porn firm, Perfect 10. At issue is the Google Image Search caching and delivery of "thumbnail"... 49116@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-02-22T15:42:32-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/15/show_trial.php During Mao's Cultural Revolution, show trials were used to cover-up the evils of the regime. Innocent parties were brought in, tried without justice, then either killed or sent to "re-education" camps. The U.S. House held its own version of such... 48648@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/14/yahoo_gets_lost_in_translation_baddaboom_baddabing.php Yahoo tried to draw some favorable press coverage today. (That's actress Charlize Theron, but she's very small, hard to recognize. That's deliberate, as you'll see.) In the wake of a scandal over the fact its Chinese affiliate cooperated with... 48566@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-02-14T14:37:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/05/aol_yahoo_will_sell_you_out_for_a_penny_maybe_less.php AOL and Yahoo have begun offering corporations "preferential delivery" of their marketing e-mails to users for prices ranging from .25-1 cent per message. The scam is being run by Goodmail Systems, whose home page advertises "if it's certified, it's safe."... 47822@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-02-05T10:32:24-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/corruption_on_the_web.php Verisign CEO Stratton Sclavos is a big investor in incumbency. And he gets value for money. OpenSecrets.Org reports that he gave $84,000 in political contributions during the 2004 cycle, and has (with his wife) given another $24,700 in 2005. The... 47774@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Models 2006-02-02T13:31:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/01/st_google_and_the_dragons.php Change is the one business constant. Those who embrace it succeed, those who resist it fail. But change also dislocates. Workers threatened by change organize unions and seek protection from government. The Luddite movement was a call by workers to... 47713@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-02-01T20:33:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/31/hipaa_worse_than_the_disease.php Info-Tech has a release out that says they analyzed the HIPAA law and found it useless. (The image is from the blog of David Hoffman.) HIPAA stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It was signed by President Clinton... 47584@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ medicine 2006-01-31T11:58:35-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/30/the_internet_necessity.php A few years ago some wags talked about people having a "right" to Internet service, and they got laughed at. Let's try it another way. America's economic future requires every citizen have access to Internet resources, and full freedom to... 47524@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-30T21:11:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/30/the_law_and_google.php Google has to obey the law. Doesn’t matter if the law is oppressive, as in China. If Google wants to do business in China, it must obey the law. Google can fight stupid laws, as in the EU Google can... 47470@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ law 2006-01-30T11:52:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/25/porn_fight_kills_the_email_guy.php Everyone hates spam. But there has been no political constituency potent enough to fight the well-organized Direct Marketing Association, which has successfully defended spammers from meaningful regulation for a decade. Now Matthew Prince, a young Chicago lawyer, thinks he has... 47076@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-25T08:27:48-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/a_curious_theory_of_conservatism.php In his latest diatribe against a la carte cable pricing Capitalist Tool Adam Thierer of the "Progress and Freedom Foundation" claims that arguments by his opponents in this debate represent "a curious theory of conservatism." I couldn't let that go... 46992@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Economics 2006-01-24T14:29:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/4_years_for_spammer_how_much_for_his_enablers.php California spammer Jeanson James Ancheta, who turns out to be a 20-year old kid, has pled guilty to computer misuse and fraud charges which should draw him a four-year sentence. Good. Ancheta is the first to be convicted of creating... 46990@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-24T12:57:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/23/sexual_monsters_inc.php Something occurred to me when reading of how the Justice Department wants a week of Google search records, ostensibly to enforce the failed law against Internet pornography, but with authority under the Patriot Act. This is getting someone’s rocks off.... 46978@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-01-23T15:33:59-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/18/the_video_fiction.php Video is NOT the future of the Web. (This picture, by the way, comes from a fine student project at the University of North Carolina on Webcasting rights. Go Tar Heels.) It’s part of the future, no doubt. It’s even... 46644@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-18T15:11:42-05:00