United States Stories for 1999

The Timekeeper 95
FCC Relaxes Entrance To Ham Radio 135
Geeks, Geek Issues and Voting 510
Tax Software for Linux? 182
North Carolina Tries to Tax Online Purchases 281
Megiddo: The FBI is Apparently Serious About Y2K 0
High Tech Paradise Lost: Living in The Valley 0
Seattle Postscript 0
Eric, Dylan and Mary of Doom 0
U.S. Asks Crackers to Lay Low New Year's Eve 0
Surgeon General Says 1/5 of Americans are Nuts 517
Arizona Democratic Primary Vote Online 0
Voices From Seattle 0
The Message from Seattle 614
Take the FBI's Geek Profile Test 639
NSA Overwhelmed with Information 204
OSHA Getting Tougher About Ergonomics 126
Pentagon Says Improper Image Morphing is War Crime 185
U.S. is "Just About OK for Y2K" 220
House Passes Digital Signature Bill 116
Finding an Intellectual Property Patent Lawyer? 80
A Post-Columbine Halloween Horror Story 579
Iowa to test forms of Internet voting 205
Alien Contact Illegal in US 97
US House of Reps. Bans "Cybersquatting" 143
More Bad News From The Hellmouth 463
Onward, Christian Geeks 671
Results From "Jam Echelon Day" 178
What's the Government /Really/ Classifying? 68
Massachusetts now the "Dot Commonwealth" 143
How Do European Techies Go America? 17
U.S. May Kill Open Source Crypto Export Regs 50
Campaign Finance Meets the Web 174
Modem Tax - Urban Legend Come True? 197
Freedom Forum First Amendment Survey 5
New GOP Domain Name Violates RFC 2146 235
FCC Leaves Broadband Alone 93
Dying Babies and The Myth of American Freedom 796
Congress Ixnays FIDNET; Prez Finds Money 66
US Admits CyberWarfare against Yugoslavia 123
Russians Crack US Department of Defense Computers 107
License to Speak? 1
US-Russia Joint Force to Monitor Missiles' Y2K Problems 64
White House Checks Out Open Source 119
Smile for the US Secret Service 258
Ask Slashdot: Internet Voting? 251
'Citizenship' not Censorship 377
New USPTO Site for Independent Inventors 24
FBI Keeps Seized Computers up to Five Years 148
Feature: US Govt & Invasion of Privacy 319
Review: The Celebration Chronicles: Life in Disneyville 140
Interview: The Internet Political Experts Respond 52
U.S. Government Encryption Irony 46
Ask Slashdot: What can we do about UCITA? 209
Clinton creates group to "address unlawful conduct" on Net 409
Interview: Ask the Internet Political Activists 232
New Cyberlaws 318
FBI Stops Satellite Phones 250
Senator Proposes 5% Tax on Web Transactions 260
US to build Y2k Command Center Bunker 160
Government Backs Down On Network Monitoring Plan? 47
Commerce Dept. Orders NSI to Open "Whois" Database 70
FCC considers low power FM licenses 118
US Congress Debates National ID Card 320
US' Capitol Hill on the Internet 132
MFLOPS Export Restrictions Lighten Up 25
Elizabeth Dole Calls for Library Net Filtering 336
US Internet Tax Committee Squabbles 118
California Gov. Halts Wage Info Sale 21
Congress concerned about Echelon 168
California to sell wage data to companies 112
Software Licenses Get Worse 210
CIA Considering Cyberwarfare 134
New School Shooting This Morning 7
George W. Bush buys anti-Bush names 231
Internet Freedom Act 191
Ask Slashdot: How Exportable is Linux? 300
ACLU Swamped With Student Complaints 0
Proposed Law:Electronic Signatures == Pen and Ink 85
US Crypto Export Laws Ruled Unconsitutional 189
Courts and the META Tag 80
State rights v. Patent law 34
Why Kids Kill 1087
Anti-Smut email law upheld 73
American Programmers are Slackers 584
Doom Causes Kid to Kill 458
Al Gore Buzzword Bingo 230
Al Gore Goes "Open Source" 330
Fighting the Techno-War 315
Russian crackers get whitehouse.gov? 138
Segfault and User Friendly threatened 271
Email Flood Forces FDIC to Drop US Bank Plan 47
Internet Taxes Likely 111
US-DOD confirms "cyber-attacks" 52
1984, today. 139
E-The-People petition against overly-broad patents 34
Review:Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer 78
Big Banker is watching you 120
US Extending Copyrights 30
India's Red Alert - no more US software 150
Supreme Court rules algorithms can be patented... 295
180,000 programming jobs in the US 147