Turns out we aren't the only ones who like our privacy... Privacy-loving space aliens put the smack down on SETI: "A 'pulsating blue beam' streaked out of the sky and slammed into the 250-foot Rand Wilson telescope near Johannesburg, South Africa, lighting up the facility and a quarter-mile area surrounding it, witnesses reported to the [Weekly World News].

Bad patent abuser! From the CNet article, "According to one person familiar with the companies' deal, Unisys had requested as much as $3.8 million under one licensing scenario that Accuweather rejected."

Let's look at what's going on in other countries. Most of these stories have occurred in the last week!

Now, as far as I know, this is correct. Court decision on extending that have been a mixed bag and probably can't be trusted in the future, so let's examine the issue, hmmm?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I can't find the message where this was said, but somebody pointed out that the First Amendment only applies to governments, not corporations.

I assume most of the readers of this weblog have been following the ruckus over at Scripting News, starting around April 4th, where Conxion, an ISP, attempted to exert editorial control over Dave Winer's statements about Conxion.

CallTheShots cofounder and CEO Reza Moazzami contends – rather unconvincingly – that most Web sites should be delighted to have chunks of their content cherry-picked for a ComboPage, because when someone clicks on a link within an element, it will lead to the third-party Web site. "I'm sure there will always be situations where sites will express that kind of concern," says Moazzami. "What we try to do is make sure we address those concerns." He says his company, which is still in beta, has yet to receive a complaint from a third-party site.