A Web Undone 2 is moving again, but will hopefully stay put for a while in its new home at http://www.williamsonday.com.

11:21:01 PM    

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"First USA, now doing business as Bank One Card Services, also agreed to police its third-party vendors to prevent deceptive telemarketing aimed at its more than 53 million credit card holders, according to New York state's Attorney General's office."

How long before Spitzer runs for President?

11:07:05 AM    

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"Critics Weigh In on Copyright Act. The U.S. Copyright Office asked for public comment on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it got it. Critics worry about everything from losing great art to restricting blind people's access to information. By Joanna Glasner." [Wired News]

No surprises here.

11:10:38 PM    

Free Speech and Satan's Web Page (washingtonpost.com) 

"The Supreme Court has held that students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech at the schoolhouse gate," U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan said. "There is no evidence that the Web site interfered with the work of the school or that any other student's rights were impinged.

" . . . Plaintiff's listing of names under the heading 'people I wish would die' did not constitute a threat to the people listed therein, any more than plaintiff's listing of names under the heading 'people that are cool' make those listed therein 'cool.' "

9:21:13 AM    

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"Packing a suitcase for travel around the holidays has never been easy, with extra care needed for things like gifts, chocolates and fragile items. But yesterday airport regulators made things even more complicated."

Among the recommendations: don't lock bags because the locks will be cut off; pack toiletries in plastic bags so inspectors can see them easily; don't pack film in checked luggage because it will be ruined, and avoid carrying dense foods like peanut butter, which might be mistaken for plastic explosives!

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10:39:17 PM    

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Russian Company Acquitted of Digital Piracy 

"In the first test of a digital piracy law, a jury acquitted a Russian company accused of selling software that allowed users to circumvent security features in an electronic book."

The jury did not like the idea that purchasers of digital content had no rights to manipulate it.  Score one for the common sense of the jurors.

10:17:38 PM    

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Of Ghosts and Mississippi (New York Times) "Karl Rove came back to his West Wing office after yet another fruitless meeting on the topic of "How to pry the Senate gavel from Trent Lott's cold, dead hands while pretending to be mildly supportive," to find his desk occupied. Lee Atwater was spinning around in Karl's chair like a little kid."

9:51:15 PM    

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"Sen. Don Nickles (Okla.), the second-ranking Senate Republican, yesterday said his party should consider ousting "weakened" Sen. Trent Lott as its leader or risk a backlash from voters."

Another nail in the coffin.  How long must we wait before Lott is buried?

11:51:55 PM    

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Gore Rules Out Running in '04 

"Mr. Gore, the former vice president, said in an interview on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" that he was intent on seeing Mr. Bush unseated, and believed he could be defeated. But Mr. Gore suggested that he might not be the strongest challenger in what early polls show would be a difficult task for the Democratic Party, because of the way he lost to Mr. Bush in 2000."

Mr. Gore shows more grace in defeat than he did on the campaign trail.  It is very poignant that a man of his talent should have come so close to the presidency and lost it.  The cockeyed Florida election notwithstanding, I believe that the last race was Gore's to lose, and that he bears responsibility for losing it.  If he had run a better campaign, George Bush would never have been able to come close enough for Florida to make a difference.  Nevertheless, I wish Al Gore well and look forward to hearing from him in the years to come.

11:39:50 PM    

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