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Ex-Canadian ambassador Cook guilty of slander
“On January 8th and 9th 2007, hundreds of police and soldiers in Guatemala forcibly evicted the inhabitants of several communities who were living on lands that a Guatemalan military government had granted to Canadian mining company INCO in 1965″, said Rights Action three years ago, continuing: “Local indigenous people claim the land to be theirs, and resent the exploitation of a foreign corporation. “Canada’s Skye Resources now lays claim to the land, and paid workers a nominal sum to destroy people’s homes. “With the force of the army and police, company workers took chainsaws and torches to people’s homes, while women and children stood by.
Continue reading »iPhone Jailbreak Videos: A Legal Primer and a How-To
The U.S. Copyright Office and the Librarian of Congress are due to rule any day whether iPhone jailbreaking should be exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Electronic Frontier Foundation asked regulators 18 months ago to add jailbreaking to a list of explicit exemptions to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions. Jailbreaking is hacking the phone’s OS to allow consumers to run any app on the phone they choose, including applications not authorized by Apple.
Continue reading »U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. SPC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division.
Continue reading »No Secrets: Julian Assange’s Mission for Total Transparency.
The house on Grettisgata Street, in Reykjavik, is a century old, small and white, situated just a few streets from the North Atlantic. The shifting northerly winds can suddenly bring ice and snow to the city, even in springtime, and when they do a certain kind of silence sets in. This was the case on the morning of March 30th, when a tall Australian man named Julian Paul Assange, with gray eyes and a mop of silver-white hair, arrived to rent the place.
Continue reading »‘Pay What You Want’ Indie Game Sale Breaks Million Dollar Barrier
Last week, we reported on a so-called crazy idea of a sale where customers set the price of a pack of video games. This crazy idea has now earned over 1 million dollars. In the first 24 hours of the Humble Indie Bundle got over a quarter of a million.
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