Mr Nikil Kumar, MP chairman of the Indian Parliamentary committee which examined the proposed amendments to Information Technology Act 2000 deserves a special commendation from the public for a very sensible work done amidst enormous counter pressure. The committee was assigned to examine the Information Technology Act 2000 amendment Bill 2006 which was placed in [...]

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Times of India, a leading News paper in India recently took up a campaign aimed at legislative immunity for Internet Intermediaries. Accordingly, a sensational article titled “Recipe for killing Internet in India” was carried by the news paper on October 17th 2007. This was followed by an editorial on October 18th titled “Don’t Chain The [...]

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It is reported that Chinese users trying to search on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft websites were being directed to the Chinese search engine. The move is said to be in retaliation for Washington’s award to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. If this is done at the level of Haidu, as some allege, it [...]

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If you are old enough to remember how badly the press corps treated vice president Dan Quayle — you might recall specifically that they made fun of how he once spelled potato(e) — you will understand why ABC’s Political Radar blog is trying to associate Fred Thompson with Dan Quayle in theirs headlined, “Fred Thompson’s [...]

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In what the White House is calling “poetic justice,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin yesterday ate a handful of rat poison and washed it down with a gallon of antifreeze in an apparent attempt to assassinate himself. Alert security forces responsible for the president’s safety wrestled him to the ground and rushed him to a local [...]

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Wales is not really well known for it’s pop stars other than Englebert Humperdinck, whose concerts still create a furor, grannies, moms, and daughters all throw their underwear at him! Thats not a bad business to be in when you are past the age of retirement! Man is a Welsh band that has been around [...]

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As if their country’s tireless pursuit to produce a small army of elitist, preppy snobs was not tasteless enough, a team of German students from the Technische Universität Darmstadt (insiders call them the Darmstadt Dorks) just won first place in a competition to design and build the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house. This competition [...]

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  Although there are legitimate uses for P2P (peer to peer) software, there is no doubt that there are a lot of dangers to using it, also. Officially, the concerns are how this exposes people to identity theft — but this costs the entertainment industry (who probably have a few lobbyists dedicated to this matter) [...]

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I have for many years held the belief that Lou Dobbs is a jack ass, his daily diatribes on CNN are barely better than listening to well known drug addict Rush Limbaugh. About the only industry that would benefit from Lou is the Razor Wire manufacturers! as the crow flies we would need something like [...]

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[Help!  While Turkey threatens invasion of Iraq, oil goes sky-high, the market crashes, Bush threatens Burmese military, we have to face the threat of Iranian rockets and presumably a cutoff of oil from the Middle East?  All is not well here, Mr. Bush.  Ed Kent] ………………………… http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=27898&sectionid=351020101 Iran: barrage of rockets waits invaders Sat, 20 [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog While Pelosi and her gang are trying to limit government surveillance of terrorist communications and local cells, the FBI has been successful using the very same tools the Democrats would like to remove. Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the impenetrable mountains near the Afghanistan border, but FBI counterterror [...]

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It was 6 years ago, life had been changed by the vile followers of Osama Bin Laden, and a New York landmark was still a landmark, but for all the wrong reasons. Where two huge towers once stood, a still smoldering pile of rubble existed. Bodies were still being counted, yet the bodies no longer [...]

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  The CNN-IBN reports that: Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP leader Narendra Modi walked out of an exclusive interview with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN’s Devil’s Advocate because he was questioned about Godhra. Narendra Modi walked out of the interview less than five minutes after it started in Gandhinagar on Friday CNN-IBN carried the transcript of [...]

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For those of you not familiar with Linspire it is a distribution of the Linux Operating System. But it has one very important distinction from the rest, it is aimed at the end user who has little or no Linux experience. I took Linspire out for a test drive last week, and I have nothing [...]

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Oh to come from such a talented family! This album was originally recorded in 2001 and features son Adam Wakeman adding his keyboarding and vocal skills. Rick meanwhile seems to have established a backing band that he is comfortable with, The New English Rock Ensemble. Rounding out the band are Tony Fernandez on drums, Lee [...]

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I was curious to know who constitutes the Family Research Council and what it stands for, so I spent several hours yesterday afternoon watching its presentations on C-SPAN. So far as I could tell from the camera surveys of the audience the membership — at least at the current conference in Washington — consists almost [...]

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The recent escalating setbacks for the Bush administration’s foreign policies brought to mind one of those childhood incidents that remains as an object lesson as to how things happen in the world. In what must have been the fifth or six grade in our small Connecticut town public school when all but one of us [...]

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