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spying

House Denies Warrantless Wiretapping Immunity For Telcos

In a textbook display of checks and balances, the House of Representatives defied President Bush and the Senate yesterday by passing their version of a surveillance bill without legal immunity for telcos. The bill passed by only 16 votes, far from the 2/3 majority needed to override Bush's inevitable veto. It looks like this legislative battle could continue until the next president takes office in 2009. As we have seen, an Obama administration would deny immunity, McCain would grant immunity, and Clinton? Who knows. [dslreports]

1:55 PM on Sat Mar 15 2008
By Eric Sheline
2,572 views, 58 comments

Latest by Namtillaku: @FlashTurbo: Maybe you ought to at least make an attempt at informing yourself before you make comments like this. If all you can do is display ignorance, you're just making yourself look the fool. [www.salon.com] Refer your attention to the Update. more »

broadband

Congress Tells Off FCC, Expects Full Count of Broadband Households

Turns out, the FCC defines an entire zip code as served by broadband when one single household receives one single 200-kilobit trickle. The US House of Representatives voted to change that. It seems, in order to see exactly how badly we're doing compared to the other post-industrial nations—do we rank 11th? or 15th? or 24th?—there needs to be a more accurate "broadband census." More »

7:20 PM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By Wilson Rothman
2,964 views, 12 comments

house of representatives

House Proposes "Do Not Buy This TV" Label

A trio from my favorite political party has proposed a new bill requiring analog-only TVs to carry a label warning buyers-to-be that they're about to spring for soon-to-be obsolete boxes. The sticker would tell prospective suckers buyers that the "TV has only an analog broadcast tuner and will require a converter box after Feb. 17, 2009, to receive over-the-air broadcasts." More »

9:40 AM on Fri Jan 26 2007
By Matt Buchanan
984 views, 22 comments