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If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance
ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates
The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All?
NYSE Moves to Linux
Amusement Park Bans PDAs and Smartphones
GameStop Manager Suspended After "Games for Grades"
ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs
Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker?
The Arthur C. Clarke Gamma Ray Burst
Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
Cryptographically Hiding TCP Ports
Doomsday Seed Vault Design Unveiled
Free Phone Calls... If Advertisers Can Eavesdrop
How the BSA Squeezes the Little Guys
Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites
McCain Backs Nuclear Power
Metalinks Tries to Simplify Downloads
Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta!
Open WAP = Probable Cause?
Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM
UPS Using Software To Eliminate Left Turns
Visual Search Engine Tracks Stolen Images
Switching Hospital Systems to Linux
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
A Commonsense Proposal On Net Radio Rates
A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing?
A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons?
AMD Wants to Standardize PC Gaming
ARPANET Co-Founder Calls for Flow Management
British E-Voting Pilots Announced
California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs
Canada Blocks Sale of Space Tech Company To US
Cocaine Vaccine In the Works
Companies Asked to Donate Unused Patents
Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying
EFF Releases Software to Spot Net NonNeutrality
GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018
Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France
ICANN to Add Anti Front Running Charge?
In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress
Intel to Take Online Suggestions for New Chips
Introducing GNU/Linux Via Applications
Japan Imposes "Fine On Fat"
Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK
Large Tech Companies Moving Beyond the Cubicle
Lawmakers Delay Telco Immunity Vote
MIT Finds Cure For Fear
MPAA Plans To Launch Movie Links Site
Microsoft Suggests Carving Up HTML 5
Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox
NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon
PI License May Soon Be Required for Computer Forensics
Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers
Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles
Sneak Peek at Windows Server 2008
Some European Moves Towards Linux
Source Control For Bills In Congress?
Stalling Cars Via OnStar
TV Airwaves To Deliver Internet?
The Doctor Will See Your Credit Score Now
The Rise of "Hybrid" Vinyl-MP3s
The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct
Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music"
US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012
US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI
VW Set To Release Diesel Hybrid
Vote To Eliminate Leap Seconds
Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax
reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts
$5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P
Turn in a Software Pirate to Collect $500
$25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix
'Hybrid' HDD Technology To Allow Data Access Without Booting
Apple Mulls Flat-Rate "Unlimited Music" Option
Canadian TV to Adopt DRM-Free BitTorrents
Comcast Slightly Clarifies High Speed Extreme Use Policy
EMI Considers Abandoning DRM on CDs
EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling
FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network
FCC Plan Will Result in Freedom Of or From the Press?
GMOs Perfected Down to the Chromosome Level
Halo 3 To Have 'Mute the Jerk' Button
Iran May Shut Down Internet During Election
Japan Bans Use of Web Sites in Elections
Music Companies Mull Ditching DRM
NYC 911 to Accept Cellphone Pics and Video
New England Patriots Obtain Online Ticket Reseller Names
New Head of EMI Says 'Embrace Digital Music or Die'
Nintendo's President Hopes To Avoid 'Return to Arrogance'
Office 2003 Service Pack Disables Older File Formats
Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari
Should IT Shops Let Users Manage Their Own PCs?
Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail
Spec Will Cut External Drive Power Cords
Time-Warner Considers Per-Gigabyte Service Fee, After iTunes
US Army "Scams" Service Members to Test Their Spam Gullibility
University of Kansas Adopts 'One Strike' Copyright Infringement Policy
Vista at Risk of Being Bypassed by Businesses
Why the .XXX Domain is a Bad Idea That Won't Die
eBay to Drop Negative Feedback on Buyers
iTunes DRM-Free Tracks Now Same Price As DRM Tracks
BitTorrent Closes Source Code
CDN Forces Reactor Online Against Safety Regulations
Hackers Invited To Crack Internet Voting
MySpace to Offer Spyware for Parents
Open US GPS Data?
Photoshop Online Within Six Months
Solar Power From Home Curtains