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Evening tech news: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a law meant to punish pornographers who peddle dirty pictures to minors is probably an if they want to talk on the phone.
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Only in America the FCC clamps down on fre speech over the airwaves (Howard Stern) where you can turn the radio k*** but the p*** peddlers get a pass to spam it down our throats. The p*** industry must have a powerful lobby. Sheech!
It's funny (actually it's not) to see how Americans always refer to the 1st amendment of the US constitution and that freedom of speech right. Yet, of all the (many) countries I've travelled to, I've never seen more censorship in the US than in any other nation. Not to mention that US citizens are not always free to express themselves without having to face some consequence.
Only in America the FCC clamps down on fre speech over the airwaves (Howard Stern) where you can turn the radio k*** but the p*** peddlers get a pass to spam it down our throats. The p*** industry must have a powerful lobby. Sheech!
p*** peddlers get a "pass" because they took their argument against a law to the courts, which, by the way, beeble, are following the constitution,not making new law here (the court isn't just supposed to rubber-stamp any law that congress passes).
The FCC decency stuff needs to be contested in court (as does the Patriot act and a boatload of other unconstitutional laws that congress has passed). If no one contests them, they can't get overturned.
One final note: John Stewart explained it best. "An activist court is a court that makes decisions that you don't agree with"
Remember folks, if you have to use windows do NOT use Internet Explorer!
Firefox, baby
Looks like the US government is now recommending users not us IE:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16922
Here is another interesting article:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2004/tc20040629_7734_tc120.htm
Man, this is my experience. It was so bad on my XP box I was forced to switch to Mozilla. Maybe there is an opppotunity to get Safari working on windows? Just like iTunes?
Use a different web browser
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites. Such a decision may, however, reduce the functionality of sites that require IE-specific features such as DHTML, VBScript, and ActiveX. Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML).
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Microsoft Corporation
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10-Jun-2004
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Re: Supreme Court Ruling
Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law .
an oligarchy ...
the rule of few over many.
One of the few really good things that Pres. Clinton did has been destroyed by those who seem to love him the most.