EU Commissioner says we need to better understand benefits of e-Government

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Government benefits: screwing the young

Government benefits: screwing the young 12/10/2003 10:12 PM
Screwing the young. American government benefits will give a typical man reaching age 65 today a net windfall of more than $70,000 beyond what he paid in. A luckless 25-year-old, by contrast, can count on paying $322,000 more in payroll taxes than he will ever get back in benefits.

Employment and benefits websites among
worst in UK e-Government

Employment and benefits websites among
worst in UK e-Government 05/24/2004 08:16 PM
Prosperity4 May 25 2004 0:06AM GMT

New report identifies employment and
benefits websites among worst in UK
e-Government

New report identifies employment and
benefits websites among worst in UK
e-Government 05/25/2004 05:31 AM
Online Recruitment May 25 2004 10:15AM GMT

"Yet another example of the tremendous
benefits of casual torture as an
intelligence-gathering tool in the hands
of a government that puts discouraging
terror ahead of petropolitics"

"Yet another example of the tremendous
benefits of casual torture as an
intelligence-gathering tool in the hands
of a government that puts discouraging
terror ahead of petropolitics" 06/19/2004 04:26 PM

Unitime Systems' New Benefits Manager
Automatically Tracks Employee
Paid-Time-Off Benefits

Unitime Systems' New Benefits Manager
Automatically Tracks Employee
Paid-Time-Off Benefits 02/05/2005 10:00 PM
Benefits calculated as part of the company’s daily time and attendance tracking [PRWEB Feb 3, 2005]

"URGENT: WASH POST: Bush admin weighing
changes in Social Security benefits
formula... // 'cutting promised benefits
by nearly a third in the coming
decades'... Developing... "

"URGENT: WASH POST: Bush admin weighing
changes in Social Security benefits
formula... // 'cutting promised benefits
by nearly a third in the coming
decades'... Developing... " 01/04/2005 05:59 PM

URGENT: WASH POST: Bush admin weighing
changes in Social Security benefits
formula... // 'cutting promised benefits
by nearly a third in the coming
decades'... Developing

URGENT: WASH POST: Bush admin weighing
changes in Social Security benefits
formula... // 'cutting promised benefits
by nearly a third in the coming
decades'... Developing 01/04/2005 04:24 AM

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Friends, Friends With Benefits and the
Benefits of the Local Mall

Friends, Friends With Benefits and the
Benefits of the Local Mall 05/29/2004 10:54 PM
Whatever happened to teen romance? Life inside the under-age sexual revolution.

Mandelson EU trade commissioner

Mandelson EU trade commissioner 08/12/2004 09:48 AM
Ex-Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson has been named as the European Union's trade commissioner.

Mozelle Thompson, FTC Commissioner

Mozelle Thompson, FTC Commissioner 05/10/2004 05:53 PM
Internet News May 10 2004 9:45PM GMT

EU Commissioner looks at how to
reinforce eDemocracy

EU Commissioner looks at how to
reinforce eDemocracy 02/18/2004 03:47 AM
PublicTechnology.net Feb 18 2004 8:02AM GMT

Q&A: Mozelle Thompson, FTC Commissioner

Q&A: Mozelle Thompson, FTC Commissioner 05/07/2004 02:48 PM
Internet News May 7 2004 6:41PM GMT

Minister attacks work of commissioner

Minister attacks work of commissioner 05/04/2004 01:54 PM
UK minister Margaret Hodge criticises the work record of Welsh children's commissioner Peter Clarke.

"Commissioner Gorelick's 1995
memorandum"

"Commissioner Gorelick's 1995
memorandum" 04/15/2004 02:33 AM

EU commissioner admits Gates link

EU commissioner admits Gates link 08/20/2004 04:24 PM
The EC's new competition commissioner admits that she once gave an honorary degree to Bill Gates, founder of the firm that is battling Brussels on anti-trust issues.

IRS commissioner bars CSC from upcoming
projects

IRS commissioner bars CSC from upcoming
projects 02/13/2004 05:19 PM
In December, the IRS Oversight Board blasted both the agency and CSC for problems with an IT modernization effort, including poor planning, poor execution and blown deadlines.

CNN.com - 9/11 commissioner: 'I've
received threats' - Apr 17, 2004

CNN.com - 9/11 commissioner: 'I've
received threats' - Apr 17, 2004 04/19/2004 04:29 PM

Commissioner 'increasingly alarmed' by
ID card scheme

Commissioner 'increasingly alarmed' by
ID card scheme 06/09/2004 06:06 AM
Thomas gives evidence

EU Commissioner comments on the
importance of eHealth in Europe

EU Commissioner comments on the
importance of eHealth in Europe 12/15/2003 07:01 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 15 2003 6:09AM ET

Ex-SEC commissioner joins Computer
Associates board

Ex-SEC commissioner joins Computer
Associates board 07/29/2004 08:24 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 30 2004 0:33AM GMT

Iraqi Officer Tied to Al Qaeda - 9/11
Commissioner

Iraqi Officer Tied to Al Qaeda - 9/11
Commissioner 06/20/2004 04:07 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 20 2004 7:38PM GMT

EU Commissioner speaks out on regulation
of mobile comms

EU Commissioner speaks out on regulation
of mobile comms 05/12/2004 02:32 AM
PublicTechnology.net May 12 2004 7:06AM GMT

Iraqi Officer Tied to Al Qaeda - 9/11
Commissioner (Reuters)

Iraqi Officer Tied to Al Qaeda - 9/11
Commissioner (Reuters) 06/20/2004 04:01 PM
Reuters - The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks has been told "a very prominent member" of al Qaeda served as an officer in Saddam Hussein's militia, a panel member said on Sunday.

EU Competition Commissioner hits back at
Microsoft critics

EU Competition Commissioner hits back at
Microsoft critics 04/19/2004 06:59 AM

EU Commissioner Monti: Speech on
telecoms regulation & competition

EU Commissioner Monti: Speech on
telecoms regulation & competition 12/16/2003 06:42 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 16 2003 6:04AM ET

EU Commissioner discusses localising
international competitiveness &
innovation

EU Commissioner discusses localising
international competitiveness &
innovation 04/29/2004 04:58 AM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 29 2004 9:26AM GMT

EU Commissioner calls for action to
deliver telecommunications competition

EU Commissioner calls for action to
deliver telecommunications competition 12/16/2003 06:42 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 16 2003 6:04AM ET

U.S. FDA commissioner calls for better
regulation of Internet pharmacies in
Canada

U.S. FDA commissioner calls for better
regulation of Internet pharmacies in
Canada 11/18/2003 07:47 PM
AP via New Jersey Online Nov 18 2003 6:52PM ET

Information Commissioner uses comic to
raise awareness of Data Protection

Information Commissioner uses comic to
raise awareness of Data Protection 07/07/2004 02:38 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 7 2004 7:14AM GMT

Information Commissioner to rule on
Lloyds TSB's jobs-to-India

Information Commissioner to rule on
Lloyds TSB's jobs-to-India 08/18/2004 12:21 PM
Union backs customer

EU Commissioner identifies future vision
& challenges for mobile comms

EU Commissioner identifies future vision
& challenges for mobile comms 06/09/2004 02:55 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 9 2004 7:08AM GMT

Something you would need a TV to
understand

Something you would need a TV to
understand 05/04/2004 02:27 AM
If you get all your news from watching Weekend Update or The Daily Show, you might find FootnoteTV helpful. The site comments and expounds on the newsworthy topics that often crop up in television shows. The parent site, newsaic, has subsites that examine comics and popular culture, among other things, as well.

I wish I didn't understand

I wish I didn't understand 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Just a quick note to my few friends in Spain... I had my first chance to visit your beautiful country...

Why I'd like to understand bl0gging

Why I'd like to understand bl0gging 09/18/2004 05:35 AM
People ask me often what is a "blog". It annoys me to no end that I cannot give a simple answer, because it tells me how little I understand of the phenomenon.

A big discussion point in Finland at the moment is that "blogs" have been translated as "internet diaries". There is an danger of confusion here: If I tell you that I play go, and that it is an "old chinese boardgame", you will immediately understand its nature. But if I say that "I blog, and it's like writing a diary on the web", your next question will be "do you really write about your sex life in public?" And that is because the word "diary" has a private connotation. Reading someone else's diary is peeping and wrong. Reading things that someone else published in the hopes that someone would read them and give feedback, is not. Diary = private, blog = public.

Most of the significant weblogs in the world are not diaries. But that's another subject for a later day.

Perhaps I am an elitist, purist and academic. But I would still really, really like to be explain to my grandmother what it is that I care so much about.

What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem

What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem 12/16/2003 06:28 PM
The real source of the vulnerability is not Apple's code, or really even their implementation. But the DHCP standard itself. (John C. Welch via MyAppleMenu)

Veteran of Israeli Belligerence Named
Acting Commissioner-General for
Palestinian Refugees

Veteran of Israeli Belligerence Named
Acting Commissioner-General for
Palestinian Refugees 04/10/2005 05:49 AM
Arabic Media Internet Network Apr 10 2005 10:18AM GMT

Read this and understand the P2P wars

Read this and understand the P2P wars 05/15/2004 05:48 AM
Timothy Wu is a law prof at the University of Virginia, and a very clever copyright reformer to boot. When Timothy and I last met, he was called Timmy, and we were both students at ALP, the hippie alternative school in Toronto that we both attended until grade eight. One of the weirdest coincidences in my life to date is that two alumni of a tiny school in Toronto would both end up moving to the US to pursue something as obscure as copyright reform.

Back to Tim(my)! His latest paper, "Copyright's Communications Policy," has me absolutely floored. Tim traces the history of copyright law, the way that we've spent a century undergoing a once-a-decade copyfight, in which representatives of inventors faced down representatives of artists and duked it out in the courts and Congress.

The parallels to today's fights are downright spooky. For example, the first music pirates (the recording industry, who ripped off sheet music) got this proper dressing-down from John Phillip Sousa, who told Congress:

These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy...in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left. The vocal chord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

I mean, I though Jack Valenti's Boston Strangler testimony was over the top, but clearly, Jack took his cues from Sousa et al.

Thirty-odd years later, the another group of pirates -- radio broadcasters, who refused to pay royalties for the music they file-shared over the airwaves -- violated Godwin's Law decades before it was formulated, comparing the entrenched rights societies that served the recording industry (the pirates of their boyhoods) to Adolph Hitler.

Tim runs down the history of cable versus broadcasters, and other copyfights down through the ages. He does so clearly and engagingly, in ways that non-lawyers and non-historians can readily grasp. And when it's done, the most amazing thing is the certainty that copryight-disrupting technologies every bit as wooly as file-sharing have been invented over and over again, and that the P2P fight is not a new one -- that piracy is the norm, not the exception.

If you want to understand the P2P fight, read this -- it is the most concise, thorough and engaging text on the subject to date. 560k PDF Link

State Politicians Don't Understand P2P
Either

State Politicians Don't Understand P2P
Either 08/05/2004 03:50 AM
What is it with the difficulty politicians seem to have understanding what a P2P file sharing network is, and why none of the networks have control over the content being shared? The latest is that a group of 40 states have teamed up to write a threatening letter to file sharing companies accusing them of all sorts of bad things. In whose name are they doing this? Even though the courts have recognized file sharing networks for what they are, it appears that the state attorneys general seem to believe that they can ignore what the law says when the entertainment industry starts telling them how evil file sharing networks are. Update: Ernest Miller asks, "why shouldn't the state attorneys general condemn email and FTP as well? An awful lot of child porn is shared via email. Shouldn't email providers be doing more to stop it?"

I really don't understand how the iTunes
store...

I really don't understand how the iTunes
store... 12/02/2003 01:06 AM

I really don't understand how the iTunes store has sold so much music. Every single time I've tried to use it in the past few weeks, I've gotten this. (I wondered if this was just happening via Windows, but I just tried it on my Mac and got the same thing.)
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