"Because 2005 is 21 years too late."

If I worked for Diebold and wanted to help republicans win --- I would work harder on usability for machines going to friendly districts

Gay hate speech on conservative political web sites isn't "Peacefire created four pages, on free servers such as GeoCities, which consisted of anti-gay quotes copied from four different conservative Web sites: Dr. Laura, Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. Using anonymous HotMail accounts, we then sent the URLs of the newly created pages to six blocking software companies, recommending that they block the newly created pages as "hate speech". After the companies had agreed to block the sites we created, we told them that all the quotes on those pages had been taken from the four conservative Web sites, and recommended that they block those Web sites as well. The blocking companies did not block those Web sites and did not respond to our inquiries."

If Congress passes the oddly named Junk Fax Prevention Act in its current form, the floodgates would reopen.

Congress is about to do for junk faxes what they recently did for spam: Make it LEGAL as long as a qualified advertiser puts an "opt out" notice on the faxes!

More Murdoch news

"Precarious people are now the corner-stone of the wealth production process. Notwithstanding this, we are invisible and count for nothing in the traditional forms of social and political representation or in the European agenda."

Mercury News Editorial: Cynical Legislation Would Roll Back Law that Shields Consumers (reg req'd)

Bias? What bias? Seriously, if Murdoch is concerned, that is good news. "[The web] is a creative, destructive, technology that is still in its infancy, yet breaking and remaking everything in its path." -- Rupert Murdoch