Database protection approved by US Congressional committee

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Congressional Committee Approves
Database Bill

Congressional Committee Approves
Database Bill 01/23/2004 05:22 PM

VOIP regulation bill approved in
committee

VOIP regulation bill approved in
committee 07/23/2004 11:28 AM
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Senate committee has approved a bill that would exempt voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service from most government regulation.

Database expert sees info as protection

Database expert sees info as protection 05/02/2004 10:32 PM
Boston Globe May 3 2004 2:49AM GMT

Database Expert Sees Info As Protection
(AP)

Database Expert Sees Info As Protection
(AP) 05/02/2004 10:21 PM
AP - Derek V. Smith sees bad people lurking everywhere: terrorists, sexual predators, quack doctors, identity thieves. And yet Smith colors himself an optimist, insisting that society can protect itself from such dicey characters, using information as a shield.

S. G. Hart & Associates is Interviewed
by Brand Protection News on
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Risk
Management and Brand Protection
Strategies.

S. G. Hart & Associates is Interviewed
by Brand Protection News on
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Risk
Management and Brand Protection
Strategies. 04/18/2005 03:54 AM
S. G. Hart & Associates, LLC, The Brand Equity Protection Company TM, is featured in the April 6th edition of Brand Protection News, a PIRA International Publication. In the article, S. G. Hart & Associates discusses its thought leadership pertaining to brand protection and the need for an overall risk management posture that is required of public companies under the auspicious of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). The article further highlights S. G. Hart & Associates’ newest educational offerings targeted to key decision makers, including board of directors and senior managers, who are seeking further information on how SOX effects brand owners’ responsibilities in combating counterfeiting and product diversion in order to protect stakeholder value. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

"GOP congressional candidate"

"GOP congressional candidate" 08/05/2004 09:15 PM

Congressional Reports

Congressional Reports 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Congressional Reports
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U.S. Congressional Bibliographies

U.S. Congressional Bibliographies 08/22/2004 05:57 AM
U.S. Congressional Bibliographies
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The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted. Its sources are the Congressional Record's "Daily Digest" and bibliographic information supplied by the U.S. Senate Library. Its primary goal is to be an authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and documents released by House and Senate committees. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Cox wants congressional probe of CBS

Cox wants congressional probe of CBS 09/15/2004 01:48 PM
Republican congressman Christopher Cox is asking for a formal congressional investigation into CBS News' use of what he calls "apparently forged documents concerning the service record of George W. Bush intended to unfairly damage his reputation and influence the outcome of the 2004 presidential election."

Congressional Spyware Scam

Congressional Spyware Scam 06/18/2004 11:31 AM
House subcommittee passes a privacy protection bill that won't change a thing, for the better.

Congressional Documents: Browse

Congressional Documents: Browse 09/21/2004 07:00 AM
Congressional Documents: Browse
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DMCRA Congressional hearing scheduled

DMCRA Congressional hearing scheduled 05/09/2004 07:30 AM

Congressional Hearing Called on Fair Use; 321 Studios President Asked to Testify

Now Is the Time for Consumers to Effect Change Through www.protectfairuse.org

WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A Congressional Hearing for H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA), has been set for Wednesday, May 12, at 10:00 AM Eastern. The DMCRA has been acknowledged and endorsed by major industry players like Intel Corp., Philips Consumer Electronics, Sun Microsystems, Bell South, Verizon, SBC, Qwest, Gateway, and the Consumer Electronics Association, among others, as a necessary balancing mechanism to restore consumers' fair use rights in the digital era. The hearing will take place before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

The DMCRA, introduced by Reps. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R- CA) and co-sponsored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), would re-affirm consumer fair use rights and balance the otherwise one-sided protection afforded copyright owners under current interpretations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

321 Studios Founder and President Robert Moore has been asked to testify at this historic fair use Congressional hearing. 321 Studios is the developer of the award-winning DVDXCOPY series of DVD backup software -- a product now banned in the United States after a group of Hollywood studios sued the company, and two federal judges decided that DVDXCOPY was in violation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

I've been a big fan of Rick Boucher ever since I first met him in Tokyo and he helped me understand how the US Congress worked on Internet issues. He's been one of the few US politicians I've met who understands the Internet and the variety of important issues including the problems with the DMCA. This bill that he and John Doolittle have introduced is a REALLY important push against the DMCA and all the might of Hollywood will be resist the new bill. If the DMCRA is successful, it will be an important blow against the insanity of the DMCA which will reverberate all the way to Japan and the EU. Americans. Contact your representatives and rally around this important issue. Please.

Via Juche

Congressional Sex Blog Posting Uproar

Congressional Sex Blog Posting Uproar 05/21/2004 08:11 PM

Senator undecided over whether to fire aide for sex 'blog': There's a lot of debate in this article about on exactly what grounds this woman can be fired. How about gross lack of judgement? I'm not critiquing anyone's personal life except to say that a congressional aide lives in something of a fishbowl, and she really should have kept that in mind.

Sen. Mike DeWine said Thursday that he has not decided whether to fire an aide who allegedly posted her exploits in an Internet diary, including accepting $400 from a married man for sex.

"We're in the process of completing a review," the Ohio Republican said. "It's a personnel matter."

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Retirement Savings, Congressional Style

Retirement Savings, Congressional Style 05/24/2004 09:18 AM

Gretchen Morgenson (NY Times): A Great Fund (For Them, Not You). It's easy to see why the Washington political class feels no need to right the wrongs in the fund industry. Those folks know how to take care of themselves. Low-cost, conflict-free money management is just one of the many special privileges lawmakers have arranged for themselves. Too bad the 91 million ordinary Americans who invest in funds can't get the same deal. As Mr. Fitzgerald said: "We've created one mutual fund world for ourselves that is great and fair and we've created another for the rest of America that stinks."

R&D Tax Credit Nears Congressional
Approval

R&D Tax Credit Nears Congressional
Approval 09/23/2004 05:42 PM
Internet News Sep 23 2004 10:15PM GMT

a Congressional Budget Office study

a Congressional Budget Office study 01/05/2005 04:29 PM
the CBO study which does the math .. "model 2"

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Congressional Budget Office Studies
Copyrights

Congressional Budget Office Studies
Copyrights 08/11/2004 06:51 PM

Congressional Group Recommends Securing
Your Network

Congressional Group Recommends Securing
Your Network 11/04/2003 10:57 AM
Congressional caucus says exercise protection: A press release that appears to come from Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), co-chair of The Internet Caucus Wireless Task Force, recommends some common sense advice often ignored or unknown to regular users of Wi-Fi networks. The advice includes the statement, Set and encrypt your wireless network password, if you want to close your network to strangers. That says an oceanful: they're not trying to implicitly deprecate community networks, for instance. The page linked to has more information relating to legally sharing your network. Rep. Honda is a well-informed advocate of wireless technology, being one of the House lights who worked on freeing additional spectrum in the 5 GHz band for unlicensed use. I interviewed him through one of his lead staffers, who himself was a former IT trade magazine reporter. Let's scratch the surface, though, shall we? The Congressional Internet Caucus is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, which means, as I understand it, that they can't engage in politics, only education. The goals and nature of the group are pretty interesting, and 160 representatives and senators are signed on to the group. But take a look at the advisory committee from industry. The MPAA. The RIAA. AOL Time-Warner. Excuse me, Time-Warner (pay no attention to the AOL part). VeriSign. The software cops at the Business Software Alliance who sent threatening letters without knowing whether someone's violated anyone's copyright. And it gets weirder. Alongside these firms and organizations, the Center for Democracy and Technology, which is fighting the so-called PATRIOT Act. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). But also the People for the American Way Foundation and the Progress and Freedom Foundation. (It's code: say democracy, and it's liberals or left-of-center; say freedom and it's conservatives, or right-of-center.) And weirder. Scroll down and you'll see the American Library Association, the ACM, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Google, Intel, and Yahoo. Is it just possible that this group actually represents a diverse set of interests all providing a complex interplay of information about the impact of the Internet on the lives of Americans? It seems to be....

E-voting company faces congressional
inquiry

E-voting company faces congressional
inquiry 12/02/2003 07:41 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 2 2003 7:20AM ET

Congressional Debate Over DVD Content
Cleaning System

Congressional Debate Over DVD Content
Cleaning System 05/21/2004 04:14 AM
While there are already lawsuits going on over the technology, that didn't stop a bunch of Congress critters from grandstanding about the latest pointless copyright issue to impact Hollywood: should technology that automatically filters out "objectionable" content in DVDs be legal? Unfortunately, from the article it doesn't sound like anyone took the obvious position that there should be absolutely nothing wrong with people watching a movie they bought however they want within the privacy of their own home. DVD players already let people skip around to specific scenes. How is this technology really any different? Instead, the defenders of the technology talked about "protecting children" which is absolutely besides the point. Meanwhile, the Representative from Disney, Howard Berman, who will never take a position that Hollywood doesn't support, continues to make himself look pitiful by saying things like: "I do not believe Congress should give companies the right to alter, distort and mutilate creative works, or to sell otherwise-infringing products that do functionally the same thing. I believe such legislation would be an affront to the artistic freedom of creators." Ah, yes, because all creators start from scratch, both on paper and in the minds of artists, and there's never ever been a creative piece of work that has been built on the ability to "alter, distort or mutilate" the works of others. After all, Berman's favorite backers, Disney, came up with the very original ideas for Steamboat Willie, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Robin Hood and all those other Disney creations that... oh wait, were actually based on altering, distorting and (some would claim) mutilating the creations of earlier artists.

Congressional Budget Office - Home Page

Congressional Budget Office - Home Page 08/14/2004 09:57 AM
Congressional Budget Office - Home Page .. new congressional report .. Follow the Money .. report .. CBO

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Congressional Oversight of Intelligence
Criticized (washingtonpost.com)

Congressional Oversight of Intelligence
Criticized (washingtonpost.com) 04/26/2004 11:17 PM
washingtonpost.com - In the fall of 2002, as Congress debated waging war in Iraq, copies of a 92-page assessment of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction sat in two vaults on Capitol Hill, each protected by armed security guards and available to any member who showed up in person, without staff.

Controversy Over Congressional Computer
Security Grows

Controversy Over Congressional Computer
Security Grows 01/26/2004 07:33 PM
BeSpacific Jan 26 2004 9:51PM GMT

Congressional economists tackle
copyright issues

Congressional economists tackle
copyright issues 08/10/2004 05:48 PM
Don't be tied to old rules or big companies, but watch out for unintended consequences, Budget Office says.

continuing congressional confusion on
copyrights (ie, not just (c), or (cc),
or even (ccc) but (cccc))

continuing congressional confusion on
copyrights (ie, not just (c), or (cc),
or even (ccc) but (cccc)) 07/07/2004 02:51 PM
Word has it that the regulators in Washington are enamored of Professor (in the School of Computing) Hollaar's recent paper, So ny Revisited, and that it is in part responsible for Congress' current infatuation with the Induce Act. Professor Hollaar is a smart guy, and his paper is an interesting and well-researched examination of secondary liability in the context of copyright law. But if Congress thinks this justifies the Induce Act, then there is some deep confusion somewhere. I suspect there are two possible sources for this confusion. (1) Hollaar discusses the scope of "inducement" liability in the context of patent law. There are some in Congress who seem to think that the Induce Act "merely" carries the same idea to copyright law. This is just a mistake. The scope of the Induce Act as written is far broader than the scope of inducing patent infringement as interpreted. And if "all" Congress wants to do is extend patent inducement to copyright law, then it should amendment the Induce Act to state precisely that. That would be a vast improvement over the existing proposal -- not enough to justify it in my mind, but it would make the harm it will cause much much less significant. (2) Hollaar discusses the purpose and meaning of the Sony case. While his discussion is technically correct enough (though the idea that copyright is the right to protect a "business model" is really not right at all), imho, the Professor, and in turn, the supporters of the Induce Act, are really missing the point of Sony. As everybody knows, Sony set the rule that when a new technology has the "potential" to support "substantial noninfringing use" of copyrighted material, the maker of the technology would not face secondary liability for copyright infringement. But what no one (in Washington, at least) seems to understand is why Sony set that standard. It was not because the Supreme Court is filled with copyright infringers who wanted to encourage copyright infringement. It was instead because the Supreme Court was filled with judges not eager to engage in the complex balancing required to judge whether a technology creates more benefit than harm. As the Court stated:

Sound policy, as well as history, supports our consistent deference to Congress when major technological innovations alter the market for copyrighted materials. Congress has the constitutional authority and the institutional ability to accommodate fully the varied permutations of competing interests that are inevitably implicated by such new technology.

This is not an opinion about copyright law alone. It is an opinion about separation of powers -- about which branch is best able to do the necessary balancing that copyright law demands, "within the limits of the constitutional grant." Sony says, in effect, when a technology is not simply a technology for violating the law, then it is left to Congress to decide whether and how that technology is to be regulated. Congress, not the courts. Why is that a great idea? Because (isn't this obvious to Republicans?) courts are awful, expensive, and slow institutions for judging the economic effect of new technology. Soviet planners with better lighting. And rather than bury innovators in years of litigation before their innovation gets to market, the Sony rule says: let the innovation go, if there is a potential for a substantial noninfringing use, and if Congress wants to regulate it more, then let Congress weigh the benefits of the technology against its costs. Ignoring this extremely sensible separation of powers principle has already cost Silicon Valley dearly. See, e.g., ReplayTV. ReplayTV is the digital equivalent of the VCR. It does the job more efficiently, and it promised to do some things the VCR couldn't do, too. But under the principle of Sony (innovate first, regulate later), it should plainly have been allowed into the market without intervention by the courts. Yet precisely the opposite happened. Content owners sued ReplayTV. It was dragged into federal litigation for many many months defending its new technology. And before the case could be resolved, the company effectively declared bankruptcy. Is this the future Senators Hatch and Leahy want for all new technologies that impact copyrighted material? Will every Apple be forced to defend its innovation in a federal court? Will federal judges become the arbiters of good technology? Will technology firms be forced to spend more on lawyers than on R&D? Whatever the lobbyists say about this bill, this is the single most important fact that we should not forget: It is a lawyer employment act. It will force technologists into court before they get to enter the market place. It will shift responsibility for striking the balance in copyright law from Congress to unelected federal judges. That's not a bad thing for me, or my kind. I, after all, think the courts have some role here (in setting the limits of copyright), and I, after all, make lawyers for a living. But for an already overregulated Silicon Valley, it is another nail in the coffin by the regulating-obsessed in Washington.

Congressional panel to weigh digital
copyright

Congressional panel to weigh digital
copyright 05/10/2004 07:18 PM
The harsh penalties for circumventing copyright protection technology could eventually be replaced with a fair-use-friendly "Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act."

Tim Blair: BRING THE CONGRESSIONAL
CHILDREN HOME

Tim Blair: BRING THE CONGRESSIONAL
CHILDREN HOME 08/06/2004 04:53 PM
over-represented in the military .. Tim Blair checks .. MOORE WAS WRONG .. no math." .. points

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I am convinced that the Congressional
offices are full of dealers and hos.

I am convinced that the Congressional
offices are full of dealers and hos. 05/19/2004 11:57 AM
The sensationally sordid Staff Ass sex scandal. Young DC congressional staff assistant starts juicy blog. (edited cache). Blog describes carryings on with many men, including a married Bush appointee who pays her for sex. Washington's most amusing and best read new blogger, Wonkette, links to it, picking out choice quotes. Within hours, the blog is gone, the girl is fired. Now another blogger outs the girl's boss as a Republican Senator. Fun!

Apple Software Head Gives Congressional
Testimony

Apple Software Head Gives Congressional
Testimony 06/21/2004 12:31 PM

Congressional Trip to India Riles
Workers (AP)

Congressional Trip to India Riles
Workers (AP) 04/27/2004 06:50 PM
AP - American technology workers riled by a congressional delegation's $165,000 trip to India say it amounted to little more than a junket promoting offshore outsourcing.

Congressional Budget Office Projects
$477 Billion Deficit

Congressional Budget Office Projects
$477 Billion Deficit 01/26/2004 12:42 PM
The federal deficit will hit a record $477 billion this year and get worse if lawmakers cut taxes or increase spending, the Congressional Budget Office projected today.

Congressional leaders promise action on
tech issues

Congressional leaders promise action on
tech issues 01/10/2004 03:21 PM
Federal lawmakers are ready to help the technology industry solve its problems--at least some of them.

Congressional panel to vote on bill to
ban VoIP taxes

Congressional panel to vote on bill to
ban VoIP taxes 07/13/2004 06:43 PM
Next week, a move to block states from taxing Internet-connected phone service faces its first test.

Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Reports Search Engine

Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Reports Search Engine 04/26/2004 06:21 AM
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports Search Engine
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The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research arm of the US Congress. With its $80 million budget and 800 employees, it issues about 3,000 briefs, reports, short issue papers and longer position papers per year. An arm of the Library of Congress, CRS is renowned for its non-partisanship and in-depth analysis, but it does not make its reports available to the public. However, it cannot prevent members of Congress from giving them out individually and some government agencies from posting reports they find relevant. Perhaps 1000 have become available on the web. This search looks into every* CRS report on the Web and only into CRS reports. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

News: Congressional digital music
hearing focuses on Apple

News: Congressional digital music
hearing focuses on Apple 04/07/2005 12:33 PM
Although Apple's name was brought up repeatedly during a congressional subcommittee hearing on digital music Wednesday, the company was nowhere to be found, much to the ire of the subcommittee's chairman, Republican congressman Lamar Smith of Texas, who also pointed the spotlight at Apple's current dominance of the commercial online music download marketplace. The hearing on "Digital Music Interoperability and Availability" took place in Washington, D.C., in front of the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property.

Firebird Database Remote Database Name
Overflow

Firebird Database Remote Database Name
Overflow 06/01/2004 03:27 PM
Aviram Jenik (Jun 01 2004)

AIM Global Participates in Congressional
Tech Fair and Policy Primer on RFID

AIM Global Participates in Congressional
Tech Fair and Policy Primer on RFID 03/14/2005 06:00 PM
Supply Chain Systems Mar 14 2005 12:16AM GMT

You have been pre-approved

You have been pre-approved 04/15/2005 09:35 AM
Amid all the talk about bankruptcy abusers, why are the credit card companies flooding bankrupt Americans with offers for new cards?

HD-DVD Spec Approved

HD-DVD Spec Approved 06/11/2004 04:13 PM
The DVD Forum this week approved HD-DVD 1.0, a specification that wil compete with Blu-Ray for the future of the DVD disc format.
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