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20021227

"Jack Whittaker Caps The Year Of The Scam." ... "... Whitaker, the West Virginia man who won "$314.9 million" in the Powerball lottery on Christmas day, is now most known for his participation in a long-running, ever growing scam: the state lotteries." ... "First, the jackpot is not $314.9 million--that's what it would be if paid out over 30 years. Whittaker opted for a single lump sum payment of $170.5 million. That number gets reported, too, but it seems to get buried." ... "State lotteries are a sucker bet. They typically return about 55% of the money wagered. That's much less than a casino or a racetrack. The various lotteries admit it, but it's reported much less often than stories about winners, a staple on the local news. No one ever publicizes the millions of losers, but they're out there. You have to be in it to lose it." -By Dan Ackman

-Forbes

20021222

"[New York states Attorney General Eliot] Spitzer: Man Of The Year - Savior of Capitalism?" ... "Using a New York state law, he obtained some explosive internal emails from Merrill Lynch and secured a $100m fine. This pushed a complacent Securities and Exchange Commission into action, and finally yesterday Spitzer got the reward for his pursuit." ... "As part of the agreement forged with the Stock Exchange [full details], the ten leading brokerages must pay $900 million in retrospective relief, $450m to fund "independent" research and $85 million to "investor education". The brokerages, including Solomon Smith and Barney, CSFB, Lehman, Morgan Stanley and UBS Warburg, will not be allowed to reward CEOs with IPO offerings, and must operate at arms length from no less than independent analysts on each offering. (Since the brokers are still paying these independent analysts' fees, it's hard to see how this cure will be truly effective.)" ... "But for the Bronx-born Spitzer, his legend is assured as a pugilist populist attorney straight from central casting. He's taken on the mob, the music pigopolists (for CD price fixing), low-paying employers, and is currently suing President Bush for gutting the clean air act." -By Andrew Orlowski -

TheRegister.co.uk

20021218

TIA: Total Information Awareness - "

Snooping in All the Wrong Places: Not only would the Administration's plan to centralize every American's records destroy privacy, the security payoff would be minimal." ... "The 2002 elections proved one thing: The promise of security wins votes. The GOP campaigned on a pledge to make the country safer, and it brought home one of the biggest midterm victories in decades. That huge win may have emboldened the Bush Administration to ignore widespread criticism of the Defense Dept.'s $240 million effort to develop a Total Information Awareness system (TIA)." ... "The outrage over TIA doesn't seem to have reached the President's ear, but it should. It's not too late for him to realize the folly of such a plan. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project would combine every American's bank records, tax filings, driver's license information, credit-card purchases, medical data, and phone and e-mail records into one giant centralized database. This would then be combed through for evidence of suspicious activity." -By Jane Black

-BusinessWeek/Daily

20021209

Eliot Spitzer

OPINION

- "Eliot Spitzer vs. the Chicago Boys: Corporate crooks, dirty air, pricey drugs -- they're all the doing of the University of Chicago's free-marketeers, says N.Y.'s Attorney General." ... "As a voice of laissez-faire economics, the University of Chicago has shaped much of the dialogue over market regulation in recent years, starting with Ronald Reagan's Administration in 1980. Free markets, the theory goes, will correct most excesses by making it impossible for those guilty of bad behavior to survive. "They've said that intervention by...government is wrong," Spitzer said. "But they haven't taken into account that markets can have structural flaws."" ... "For example, environmental polluters are not being punished by the market, he charged, and that means all of society pays the price for pollution. Relying on the market to fairly price prescription drugs has also failed, he insisted, since some severely ill people rely so much on one particular drug that they will pay anything to get it." -By Heather Timmons

-BusinessWeek/Daily

20021206

- "Digital Robber Barons?" ... "... the wide-open, competitive world of the dial-up Internet depended on the very government regulation so many Internet enthusiasts decried. Local phone service is a natural monopoly, and in an unregulated world local phone monopolies would probably insist that you use their dial-up service. The reason you have a choice is that they are required to act as common carriers, allowing independent service providers to use their lines." ... "Last March the F.C.C. used linguistic trickery — defining cable Internet access as an "information service" rather than as telecommunications — to exempt cable companies from the requirement to act as common carriers. The commission will probably make a similar ruling on DSL service, which runs over lines owned by your local phone company. The result will be a system in which most families and businesses will have no more choice about how to reach cyberspace than a typical 19th-century farmer had about which railroad would carry his grain." -By Paul Krugman

-NYTimes via -Google-News

- "US unpopular among key allies: Turkish leaders put conditions on support for the US on Iraq, citing public opinion." ... "America's flagging image around the world since the September 2001 terrorist attacks is crimping the Bush administration's ability to build a coalition for a possible Iraq war." ... "This week, Turkey's new Islamist government bowed to domestic opinion, responding to American diplomatic pressure with a "yes, but": The US may use Turkish territory for a military campaign against Iraq, but only if it proceeds under the mantle of the United Nations Security Council, and with a second UN resolution authorizing the use of force." ... "The move represents the uneasy balance leaders around the world are striking between what they consider a geopolitical necessity -cooperating with the US - and domestic opposition to war with Iraq." -By Howard LaFranchi

-CSMonitor

20021202

- "Why Are These Men Laughing? Excerpts from our newsmaking story on Karl Rove, politics, and policy in the Bush administration." ... "" -By Ron Suskind

-Esquire

OPINION

- "The DiIulio Letter." -To: Ron Suskind From: John DiIulio -

20021024 - Via: Esquire.com

20021118

- "New York Times suggests Tiger Woods skip Augusta." ... "The Times said that if Augusta National "can brazenly discriminate against women, that means others can choose not to support Mr. Johnson's golfing fraternity. That includes more enlightened members of the club, CBS Sports, which televises the Masters, and the players, especially Tiger Woods."" ... "The editorial said Sanford I. Weill, the chief executive of Citigroup, and Kenneth Chenault, chairman of American Express, should "lead the way" for other prominent members and resign from the club."

-SFGate.com

20021105

ELECTION 2002 - "

Coping with Election 2002: The only solution: Hold your nose, vote and then fight for reform." ... "Campaign 2002 saw some of the most vitriolic TV ads in recent memory. There was the ad in the Georgia senatorial race that sought to link war hero Max Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam, with mass murderers Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein because he had voted against some of President Bush's homeland security measures. And then there was Texas governor Rick Perry's just-this-side-of-slanderous attempt to smear his opponent, Tony Sanchez, with the blood of a DEA agent murdered by Mexican drug lords 17 years ago. "The Justice Department," the ad slimed, "said Sanchez had a choice: to cooperate with law enforcement or the drug dealers. Sanchez chose the drug dealers."" -By Arianna Huffington

-Salon

20021102

- "Money talks, Microsoft walks: Bill Gates lets out a big "Whew!" as the court decides that what's good for Microsoft is good for America." ... "This is the way the Microsoft antitrust suit ends: Not with a bang but a whimper." ... "With their proposed settlement last autumn, the hollow men of the Bush Justice Department had already gutted whatever remnant of serious penalty or constraint against Microsoft that had been won during the five-year legal process. Now, with that settlement largely rubber-stamped by Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the endless process is, if not over, close to a finale." -By Scott Rosenberg

-Salon

20021022

Bali bombings. - "

Threat of unreality TV: In the media, places like Bali only feature as tourist playgrounds. That endangers us all." ... "For the past nine months, priests and tribal leaders in West Papua, the easternmost province of Indonesia, have been trying to warn the world that an Islamic fundamentalist movement is using their land as a training ground. Laskar Jihad is commanded by a man trained by al-Qaida in Afghanistan. Some of its members have already been involved in terrorism in the islands of Ambon and Sulawesi. Since January they have established seven bases in West Papua. With the help of the Indonesian police and army, they have been stockpiling arms, recruiting Javanese immigrants and training them for combat." ... "Since the jihadis arrived, Neles Tebay, a Papuan journalist, has been sending urgent messages to newspapers and broadcasters around the world, desperate to attract attention to this protected terrorist network. But even when eight Pakistani mojahedin arrived, his warnings failed to generate any response in the newsrooms of either Europe or North America. The Papuans, ignored and abandoned by the rest of the world, have been reduced to begging the Indonesian authorities to uphold the law and disarm the jihadis before they attack." ...

...

"The physical courage of the freelance camera people and journalists, who risk their lives to film the world's forgotten atrocities, is matched only by the moral cowardice of the managers who then refuse even to talk to them, let alone to run their footage." ... "So perhaps it is time we became more interactive viewers, and began demanding less "reality TV" and more plain reality. Otherwise we can expect the world to continue to deliver unpleasant surprises, as the needs and the responses of its people become ever more opaque to us." -By George Monbiot

-Guardian.co.uk

20021021

"Can You Trust Your Computer?" ... "Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call "trusted computing," large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you. Proprietary programs have included malicious features before, but this plan would make it universal." ... ""Treacherous computing" is a more appropriate name, because the plan is designed to make sure your computer will systematically disobey you." ... "Programs that use treacherous computing will continually download new authorization rules through the Internet, and impose those rules automatically on your work. If Microsoft, or the U.S. government, does not like what you said in a document you wrote, they could post new instructions telling all computers to refuse to let anyone read that document. Each computer would obey when it downloads the new instructions. Your writing would be subject to 1984-style retroactive erasure. You might be unable to read it yourself." -By Richard Stallman

-NewsForge via -CorpWatch.org

Sniper -

- "

In the Crosshairs of Cable News: Sniper coverage spurs speculation, not facts." ... "Time to get the latest on the Washington-area sniper from cable's news and speculation networks." ... "Speculation. Conjecture. Guesswork. This is what happens when news networks have 15 minutes of new news and 24 hours to fill." -By Noel Holston

-Newsday.com

20021005

- "Rule of law or renegade? Iraq crisis will tell, ex-inspector says." ... "The looming war in Iraq will define the United States either as a democracy dedicated to the rule of law or a renegade empire, says Scott Ritter, the controversial former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq." ... "He said the Bush administration has used the Sept. 11 tragedy to further the right's agenda -- not to make the nation more secure." ... "By accusing dissenters of being unpatriotic, he said Bush has created a climate in America that stifles democratic values of free and open discussion of issues." ... ""Democracy is about involvement, criticizing, debate, that's what makes this country work," Ritter said." -By Chris McGann

-Seattle-PI.com.NWsource

20021014

Iowa pregnancy privacy challenge. - "

Doctors’ files: Closed!" ... "To the pleasant surprise of just about anyone paying attention, officials from anti-abortion Women’s Choice Center in Bettendorf stood behind Planned Parenthood. The dog put its arm around the cat." ... " “Whether women go to a private clinic, Planned Parenthood or a pro-life clinic, they come under the assumption that their case is private,” Women’s Choice director Lynn Grandon said last month." -By Barb Ickes

-QCTimes

20020925

"House GOP bill protects bad doctors, HMOs and nursing homes from accountability; patients lose crucial rights." ... "Just 5 percent of American doctors are responsible for half the malpractice in the United States, according to a new analysis of federal data by the consumer group Public Citizen." ... "The analysis was released as the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to consider legislation that would make it more difficult for injured patients to hold their doctors accountable for negligence."

-Citizen.org

20020816

Iowa pregnancy privacy challenge.

"Editorial: The issue is medical privacy: Don't let emotions cloud the stakes in the Storm Lake dead-baby case." ... "... this case is no longer just about finding the mother of a dead infant. It's about the possibility of setting a precedent that allows law enforcement broad access to everyone's medical records. If a blood sample containing a certain medication is found at a crime scene, does that give police access to medical records from all the hospitals and doctors['] offices of anyone taking that medication? If police have a DNA sample in a rape, can they go on a fishing expedition for every tissue sample in local hospitals and clinics in search of a match?" ... "The Storm Lake case isn't about women's rights. It's isn't about dead infants. It isn't about abortion. It's about medical privacy. And it needs to be judged outside its emotionally charged circumstances." -By Register Editorial Board

-DesMoinesRegister / News

20020813

Iowa pregnancy privacy challenge.

"Is pregnancy a privacy issue?" ... ""This was a heinous crime that demands justice," said Jill June, director of Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. "I feel horrible and this needs to be solved and we want to help, but what they are asking for is illegal and unethical. This is a blatant violation of a patient's rights to privacy."" ... "Local prosecutor Phil Havens argues that privacy is not an absolute right. "If the rights of society are greater, then those rights should prevail ... We have a dead baby and there is no way we can investigate the crime without knowing who the mother is."" -By Waynce Loewe -CourtTV.com via

-CNN

20020811

Iowa pregnancy privacy challenge.

"A Question of Medical Privacy." ... "... lots of innocent women did use the clinic and were promised confidentiality when they did so, and the cost to their privacy could be substantial. Some of these women likely had abortions -- though the clinic in question does not perform them -- and their families may not have known about their pregnancies. Some may have miscarried and wish to keep that secret."

-WashingtonPost

20020810

"India, Pakistan and G.E.." ... "Two months ago India and Pakistan appeared headed for a nuclear war. Colin Powell, the U.S. secretary of state and a former general, played a key role in talking the two parties back from the brink. But here in India, I've discovered that there was another new, and fascinating, set of pressures that restrained the Indian government and made nuclear war, from its side, unthinkable. Quite simply, India's huge software and information technology industry, which has emerged over the last decade and made India the back-room and research hub of many of the world's largest corporations, essentially told the nationalist Indian government to cool it. And the government here got the message and has sought to de-escalate ever since. That's right — in the crunch, it was the influence of General Electric, not General Powell, that did the trick." -By Thomas L. Friedman

-NYTimes via -Moreover

20020807

OPINION

TIA: Total Information Awareness

- "Feds Open 'Total' Tech Spy System." ... "According to the IAO's blueprint, TIA's five-year goal is the "total reinvention of technologies for storing and accessing information ... although database size will no longer be measured in the traditional sense, the amounts of data that will need to be stored and accessed will be unprecedented, measured in petabytes."" ... "It is precisely the thought of petabytes of raw data being under the control of an agency with limited public accountability that troubles civil liberties activists like Lee Tien, senior staff attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation." ... ""We should resist the expansion of any 'data-veillance' program that doesn't have adequate safeguards and accountability," Tien says. "This program sounds like a counterpart of the movement toward requiring a national ID card. People like to think of that as an identification system, but it's actually a tracking system." -By Eliot Borin

-Wired

20020731

"Kerry Gets Out Front With Attacks on Bush: The president’s handling of the war on terror is facing tough questioning from a potential Democratic rival." ... " Kerry is a serious fellow, and his argument is a serious one: that, despite its initial success in blowing the Taliban out of Afghanistan, the Bush administration has failed so far on every other count in the war Bush declared on terrorism after September 11. By not using enough elite U.S. troops in Tora Bora, and by not sealing escape routes in Operation Anaconda, Bush and his war cabinet missed a crucial opportunity to kill the network before it could disperse. Meanwhile, Kerry argues, the U.S. has needlessly upset and confused its allies with tough talk on Iraq—and yet, at the same time, given the bad guys more time to prepare for whatever we decide to do." -By Howard Fineman

-MSNBC/-Newsweek

20020725

Operation_TIPS

"Some TIPS for John Ascroft: Mr. Attorney General, forget your plan for a system to promote Americans spying on Americans. It won't work -- and is un-American." ... "The American Teamsters Union has already signed on. The U.S. Postal Service, which originally said its 800,000 workers would not participate, is also encouraging its workforce to join." ... "Another important -- and still-unanswered -- question is how will the data be stored, and who will have access to it. Will the TIPS program create FBI files on thousands, even millions, of unsuspecting Americans? And where will those files end up? The next time you're passed over for a job or a loan, will you wonder if it's because the cable guy filed a tip about your collection of Middle East travel books? "The U.S. government has a history of abusing information," says [the ACLU's legislative counsel Rachel] King. "These are not hysterical fears."" -By Jane Black

-BusinessWeek/Daily

20020723

"A fool's paradise for CEOs." ... Regarding requiring "that CEOs attest to the accuracy of corporate financial statements," Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy, reportedly said ""I haven't convinced myself that it is in the best interest of our shareholders," McNealy told the [New York] Times." ... "McNealy's attitude is the culmination of the last decade's ascendant ethos for U.S. business: near worship and lavish compensation for people who "make things happen" coupled with near contempt and minimal rewards for people who "make things work."" -By Michael Thomas

-Salon

20020718

Operation_TIPS

- "Robert Levy of the Cato Institute debates Paul Rosenzweig of the Heritage Foundation about Operation TIPS on MSNBC."

-MSNBC

via

-Cato.org

"Fair Use advocates silenced by Big Brother." ... "Advocates trying to speak for regular Internet users were basically told to sit down and shut up during a "public" workshop on digital rights management dominated by IT heavyweights and Big Hollywood at the U.S. Department of Commerce Wednesday." ... "Brett Wynkoop of NY for Fair Use did get a comment on the record because he sat at the table with Big Hollywood and Big IT and commandeered the microphone at one point, which meeting moderator Phillip Bond, undersecretary for Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce, later objected to. "We have a structure here," Bond said more than once when fair use advocates tried to take the floor." -By Grant Gross

-NewsForge via -TheRegister.co.uk

ta.doc.gov - "Technology Administration."
DOC.gov - "U.S. Department of Commerce."
NYFairUse.org - "New Yorkers for Protecting Fair Use of Copyrighted Material."

20020715

Operation_TIPS

"ACLU Says Bush Administration Should Not Allow Operation TIPS To Become An End Run Around Constitution." ... "The ACLU is concerned that law enforcement will use these new volunteers -- especially those whose occupations allow them to enter homes and monitor citizens - to search people’s residences without a warrant. Also worrisome is the potential for the program to adversely affect the fight against terrorism by wasting resources on useless tips and the possibility that the program would encourage vigilantism and racial profiling."

-ACLU.org

20020714

Operation_TIPS

"What Is Operation TIPS?" ... "Public vigilance is a good thing, and so is encouraging citizens to alert authorities to terrorist activity. It makes sense to educate people who work at potential targets or at places where lethal cargo may be smuggled. But having the government recruit informants among letter carriers and utility workers -- people who enter the homes of Americans for reasons unrelated to law enforcement -- is an entirely different matter. Americans should not be subjecting themselves to law enforcement scrutiny merely by having cable lines installed, mail delivered or meters read. Police cannot routinely enter people's houses without either permission or a warrant. They should not be using utility workers to conduct surveillance they could not lawfully conduct themselves."

-WashingtonPost

CitizenCorps.gov/tips.html

Operation TIPS is coming in August 2002.

CitizenCorps.gov

20020702

"Tragedy, Media and Marketing." ... "Last week, CNN devoted a whole program to the mysterious process by which some tragedies -- the Death of Di to name one -- get staggering amounts of media coverage, while others -- like Mother Teresa's death the same week -- merit relatively little." ... "It was striking to realize that none of CNN's panelists came close to the simple truth: media are market-driven, not idea-substance-or-content driven." -By Jon Katz

-Slashdot

20020701

- "FCC policies hurt high-speed Web, group says." ... "By easing regulations on incumbent cable television and local phone companies, the Federal Communications Commission will hasten the demise of independent Internet providers who reach users over existing phone and cable lines, the Consumer Federation of America said." -By Andy Sullivan

-Reuters via -InfoWorld

ConsumerFed.org - "Consumer Federation of America." -Telecommunications -- Phone, Cable, Internet

[PDF] -

"Administration's Broadband Policy Would Strangle ISPs, Destroy Competitive Internet Marketplace."

-ConsumerFed.org

[PDF] -

"The Importance of ISPs in the Growth of the Commercial Internet: Why Reliance on Facility-Based Competition Will Not Preserve Vibrant Competiition and Dynamic Innovation on the High-Speed Internet."

-ConsumerFed.org

WorldCom News - "

WorldCom Fallout: Four editorial page editors and writers discuss the state of corporate responsibility in the wake of the WorldCom scandal."

-PBS /NewsHour

20020624

"Your PC's enemy within: Spyware, adware controversies show why Net needs new laws." ... "The Wild West days of cyberspace are over--and, like it or not, it's time for government to change its laissez-faire attitude toward the Internet and create laws that clearly prevent unscrupulous businesses from preying on unsuspecting consumers and seizing control of computers." -By Evan Hansen, John Borland, and Rachel Konrad

-CNET/News

"Addressing the cause, not symptoms." ... "At first, the signs are subtle: Your computer is slower than usual, something is different about your browser, occasionally you're redirected to an unfamiliar Web site for no apparent reason." ... "When you finally figure out the problem, you discover that someone has been tracking every keystroke on your keyboard for days while using your PC's resources to maintain a network that researches extraterrestrial life. Adding insult to injury, you find that your 8-year-old son agreed to the whole mess to get some software given away online."-By Evan Hansen and John Borland

-CNET /News

20020620

Enron News

"'Frontline' lays bare hows and whys of the Enron debacle." ... "In the end, it's a cautionary tale and a call for reforms." ... "Veteran journalist Hedrick Smith is the correspondent/producer, and he finds plenty of blame to spread around: an oversight system gone soft, greedy corporate executives protecting their stock options, conflicts of interests among supposed watchdogs and outside auditors doubling as "consultants," and congressional actions that -- so Smith judges, at least -- blocked efforts at protecting investors." -By Ann Hodges

-HoustonChronicle.com

20020612

"Deep Linking Danish Lawsuit - ''license to link?''"

from the Get-A-Clue. dept. -By Hermit !-| -Posted 1st @ LISNews.com

20020530

"The weakest link: Why the world needs Pakistan's dictator to survive, and how to rescue him." ... "The general's only chance of being able to deliver a cessation of violence lies in him being able to demonstrate that something is moving on Kashmir. Here, India's policy has been lamentable. It has never accepted that Kashmir is a subject fit for international mediation indeed, it refuses even to accept what is obvious, that Kashmir is central to the dispute between the two countries. It has refused to allow Kashmiri leaders passports to travel to Pakistan to confer with Kashmiris there. It missed a valuable opportunity for a rapprochement with Pakistan after January 12th, when General Musharraf made a bold speech promising to crack down on extremism, and pledged that his country would not be used to support terrorism. Deprived of any reward from India, it is not surprising that the general's grip started to weaken."

-Economist

Messaging

"The next hacker target: instant messaging." ... "Unfortunately, widespread use of encrypted instant messaging (either at the consumer or enterprise level) is not expected for a few years. In the meantime, Ingevaldson recommended Trillian, a chat app that connects users to all the major IM clients: AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger. Trillian offers 128-bit blowfish encryption for AIM and ICQ, something these products currently do not provide on their own." -By Robert Vamosi

-ZDNet>News

20020524

Messaging

"Do you have IM etiquette?" David Coursey points out some of Instant Messaging's limitations and misunderstandings. -By David Coursey

-ZDNet>News

20020514

""Fair Use" Is Getting Unfair Treatment: Two recent federal court rulings in Hollywood's favor could undermine consumers' historical rights to use the content they buy." ... "Copyright law has always tried to strike a delicate balance between the rights of content creators to be compensated for their work and the rights of consumers to use what they have paid for. But the development of digital media and Big Media's attempt to completely control it have destroyed the delicate equilibrium that is copyright law." -By Stephen H. Wildstrom

-BusinessWeek/Daily

20020401

"Most Far-Reaching Gag Order In 1st Amend. History? Hentoff: Press Must Address Book-Reading Threat." ... "John Ashcroft's war on terrorism includes the most far-reaching gag order in First Amendment history --preventing the press from reporting on the FBI's seizure of the lists of books bought or borrowed in bookstores and libraries by noncitizens and citizens suspected of terrorist activities." -By Nat Hentoff -

EditorAndPublisher.com

20020319

"Entertainment Execs, Fear Not the Net: The music and movie bigwigs' antipiracy crusade misses a key point: People are tired of those industries' old ways of business." ... "Clearly, the labels don't have a demand-side problem. They have a busted delivery mechanism." By Alex Salkever

-BusinessWeek/Daily

20020311

Are we ready for digital paper?

takes a look at a pen and paper combo that copies what's written as a digital picture. -By Eric Schonfeld

-ZDNet>News

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