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America's War on the Web 428

An anonymous reader writes "The Sunday Herald is reporting that while the US is continuing to pursue traditional means of protecting national security, they are also planning to launch a new wave of 'information warfare' to help combat a perceived growing threat of IT security. From the article: 'The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the document's recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of "a revolution in the concept of warfare". The report orders three new developments in America's approach to warfare [...] the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.'"
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Journal Journal: Domain Name Bullies

As a web developer (among other things) I am becoming increasingly frustrated by the over-zealous restrictions placed on Domain Names by registrars. Why should a regsitrar be able to lock a domain simply for the purpose of being able to exclusively re-sell this domain to a legitimate user? Why should registrars have obvious ties to bulk domain purchasing companies so that when domains do expire, the very second they come out of lock they are snapped up and either re-sold at ridiculous rates or s

Comment Re:Tricky! (Score 1) 723

OK - while I'm a staunch advocate for the protection of privacy of information and p2p activity and the overall fight against the greedy assholes who deliver basically any kind of media, this is just stupid. It's like forming a party who's only mandate is to have greenhouse gas emmissions lowered. You can't base a party manifesto on one (and it's really only one) issue. Let's say somethign weird happened and these guys we elected - aside from being pirate central for about 2 months (until they were kicked out and a new government had to spend many more millions fixing what they broke) what would htey do as far as health, law enforcement, education, foreign policy - and basically the non-consumer related issues that are the bedrock of making a country tick? Silly, silly people. I suppose if you have nothing better to do with yuor time and lots of money to waste it would be worth it, but why bother.

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