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Submission + - Satiric magazine retired by judge in spain

Submitted by

repking

on Friday July 20, 2007 @10:48AM

repking writes: "As you can see in the Typicallyspanish.com website, judge del olmo from the spanish national court orders to seize all the copies of spanish satiric magazine "El Jueves", for "injuries to the crown"

The cartoon showed the sum of 2,500 , the amount now offered by the Government for every birth in Spain, and below the money, the cartoon of the Prince and Princess in a sexual posture. The Prince is commenting along the lines that this is the closest he will get to earning a living.

According a special law on the crown, the author can be send to jail for two years."

Submission + - Bush Prevents Congressional Justice by Fiat (blogspot.com)

Submitted by

Indigent A-hole

on Friday July 20, 2007 @10:06AM

Indigent A-hole writes: "The Bush administration says it will direct the Justice department not to pursue any Congressional contempt citations in cases where Executive privilege has been evoked; is this President claiming to truly be above the law?"

Submission + - Court ruling authorizes warrantless Web snooping

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @12:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to the San Diego Union Tribune Federal agents do not need a search warrant to find out the Web page addresses people visit or the e-mail addresses they correspond with, a federal appeals court has ruled in a case involving an Escondido drug lab. The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hands law enforcement a powerful surveillance tool that it can employ with virtually no check or balance or judicial oversight, legal experts said.

Submission + - New FCC rules may impact Linux-based devices (omnisourceintelligence.com)

Submitted by

jkrobin

on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @12:02PM

jkrobin writes: "New U.S. regulations went into effect Friday, July 6, that could change how vendors of devices with software-defined radios (SDR) use open-source software. The new rules could impact manufacturers of mobile phones, Wi-Fi cards and other devices that use SDR technologies. SDR technologies are commonly used in today's mobile phones and Wi-Fi equipment. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) new regulations are apparently aimed at ensuring that users of such equipment cannot access source code needed to reprogram it — for example, to output more power, or operate on inappropriate frequencies, either of which could conceivably endanger public safety. A summary document published by the FCC suggests that because of the new rules, SDR device vendors who use open-source software in certain capacities could face challenges getting FCC approval.

More at: InfoTech OmniSource Intelligence"

Submission + - EFF reports more USA PATRIOT act abuse

Submitted by A Name Similar to Di on Tuesday July 10, 2007 @11:56AM

A Name Similar to Di writes: From the EFF website:

In the wake of the inspector general's report, EFF filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking fundamental information about the FBI's misuse of the NSL authority, and a federal judge recently ordered the Bureau to release information responsive to EFF's request on a rolling basis.

On Friday, July 6, the FBI made its first disclosure of 1,138 pages of documents, all of which you can view here. (Please keep in mind that this is the first of many sets of documents we'll be receiving, so this material does not present a complete picture.) Here's what we've spotted that we think is most interesting so far.

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