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Submission + - How AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast are working together to screw you (timmins.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: AT&T is buying entire legislatures to rewrite the laws to allow them to become a fully unregulated company with no wholesale obligations, creating a de-facto monopoly. They can (and likely will) use it to squash or hurt wireless competitors as well, as they're permitted to favor their own subsidiaries with the network built and created over a hundred plus year monopoly, and Comcast is fully on-board because they'd like to split the market created when all their competitors are dead.

Submission + - AT&T, Verizon Attempting to Get Government Approval to Cut Off Competitors. (timmins.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: In Michigan, Senate Bill 636 will remove any remaining requirements of AT&T and Verizon to lease lines to other providers, effectively killing all competing phone and internet providers, including wireless providers, which rely on leasing any connectivity from AT&T or Verizon. Readers should not be fooled by the title of the bill into thinking it only applies to a hard-wired phone line coming into their home or office. What the consumer calls a landline differs greatly from what the law calls a landline.

Submission + - Satanists Propose Monument at Oklahoma Statehouse Next to Ten Commandments

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: The Tulsa World reports that in their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including satanists who are now seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument on the Statehouse steps. The Republican-controlled Legislature in Oklahoma authorized the privately funded Ten Commandments monument in 2009, and it was placed on the Capitol grounds last year despite criticism from legal experts who questioned its constitutionality. But the New York-based Satanic Temple saw an opportunity and notified the state's Capitol Preservation Commission that it wants to donate a monument too. "We believe that all monuments should be in good taste and consistent with community standards," Lucien Greaves wrote in letter to state officials. "Our proposed monument, as an homage to the historic/literary Satan, will certainly abide by these guidelines." Brady Henderson, legal director for ACLU Oklahoma, said if state officials allow one type of religious expression, they must allow alternative forms of expression, although he said a better solution might be to allow none at all on state property. "We would prefer to see Oklahoma's government officials work to faithfully serve our communities and improve the lives of Oklahomans instead of erecting granite monuments to show us all how righteous they are," says Henderson. "But if the Ten Commandments, with its overtly Christian message, is allowed to stay at the Capitol, the Satanic Temple's proposed monument cannot be rejected because of its different religious viewpoint."

Comment Re:Industrial espionage (Score 4, Insightful) 402

by CoderJoe (#42188009) Attached to: The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China

How about just doing a boot-time truecrypt volume? They can't boot the system from the hard drive, and booting from a live CD/USB is also useless, as the data on the hard drive is encrypted. (unless they want to take the time to image the whole hard drive so they can work on cracking it elsewhere)

Comment Re:No, not his right. (Score 1) 368

by CoderJoe (#41913193) Attached to: Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System

You might want to check to see if Archive Team was able to save any of that person's MobileMe data. Here is a form you can use to find a user's data: http://www.archive.org/download/archiveteam-mobileme-index/mobileme-20120817.html

Note: that search page requires javascript in order to function.

Comment Re:Oh good (Score 1) 138

Now, there very well may be some people who create something and live off it for the rest of their lives without creating another thing. So what? If someone creates something so wonderful/critical/popular that it still generates income 50 years later why shouldn't they benefit from that?

Ok, so how does having copyright last until 75 years AFTER THE DEATH of the author benefit the author? They're worm food.

As far a Disney, they take from the public domain, but do everything in their power to prevent their works enriching that same public domain. In addition, after they make their work, they may attack anyone else approaching that same PD source work for another project. Plus, they don't always have the rights they think they do when creating a work (example: Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne. Disney stepped well beyond the license they had to the work.)

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