Or hindering it? James L. Payne reexamines what the bulk of scholars and the mainstream take for granted and what has come to dominate contemporary thought and justify imperial designs. Did the United States Create Democracy in Germany? And has democracy indeed ever been artificially, and hastily conjured?
A close look reveals that, from the standpoint [...]
CrApple ships high-end iPods with virus that conveniently only affects Windows. And instead of simply and unconditionally apologizing they blame Microsoft. Really mature.
Well, at least they bought into their own brainwashy adverts. As it stands, Apple can just keep dreaming of the day when its market share will be large enough to actually interest anyone [...]
Now that is what happens when the two largest credit card companies have their base of operations in the U.S. One never seizes to be amazed by the subterfuge the Americans can get out of their hegemony and the sheer level of government-corporate interoperability. The feeling one gets is that the American system constantly exceeds [...]
IGA or in-game advertising is on the rise and Electronic Arts has just launched what seems to be its first title with built-in, remotely fetched ads for in-game billboards. It’s perhaps more surreal than spyware per se.
Electronic Arts launched Battlefield 2142 yesterday and not too many people were happy to find spyware incorporated into the [...]
As mind-boggling as it sounds, Reuters just set up shop in some sort of virtual reality community called “Second Life.” Never heard of it and it sound a little girly, but the effort immediately paid off with an even stranger tale of how the US government is looking into virtual economies, taxation and property rights.
Booming [...]
Swedish inventor Håkan Lans just got snubbed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (HAKAN LANS v. GATEWAY 2000, INC., ET AL., HAKAN LANS v. DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION, UNIBOARD AKTIEBOLAG v. ACER AMERICA CORP., ET AL.).
The background can be found here.
As such, Lans is still stuck with all attorneys’ fees, contrary [...]
Another “terrorist” uncovered. Mission accomplished. On a scale, starting with having MySpace ask said teen to remove said image, this seems like a fairly strange thing to do. But then again, someone has to pay since there is no real “terrorism” to speak of.
One of the latest persons to be questioned by federal agents in [...]
So, America has already pioneered this brave new technology against civilians, but Britain’s proposed use of spy planes to monitor and intimidate the general public doesn’t even bother with a plausible rationale. Or crime for that matter. Unless displaying anti-social behavior or merely being in an “anti-social behaviour hot-spot” count as a crimes these days. [...]
Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007
Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are the world’s most competitive economies according to The Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007, released by the World Economic Forum on 26 September 2006. Denmark, Singapore, the United States, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom complete the top ten list, but the United States shows the most [...]
Internet gambling: Who is really in charge of the internet? and the myth of the borderless internet.
The myth of the borderless internet, never very credible to those who had any real understanding of the interplay between politics and technology that underpins the network, took another hit last week when the US Congress voted to ban [...]
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