Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   'Augusto, You Don't Know Me ...' - The battle to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice spills onto the Web. Care to have a word with Chile's former dictator? Send him an email. [Wired News]   'Hey Orrin, Dot Com This' - Psst, Senator. Wanna buy your own domain name? A Florida man who owns senatororrinhatch.com offers it to the legislator who introduced an anti-cybersquatter law. By James Glave. [Wired News]   'I Want My MTV Money' - In a clash of coastal and corporate cultures, Imagine Radio and MTV battle over cash and plans to create a startup on company time. This case could be a survival guide for tech takeovers. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   'Melissa' Police Work Lauded - Officials heap praise on investigators from a special division of the FBI created specifically to fight cyber crime. Their nimble footwork leads to the arrest of a suspect in the "Melissa virus" case. Deborah Scoblionkov reports from Trenton, New Jersey. [Wired News]   'US Out of Broadband! Now!' - Government bureaucracy prevents widespread broadband access from becoming a reality, industry leaders say as they huddle at a major Net public policy conference. Chris Oakes reports from Aspen, Colorado. [Wired News]   .Web (TM)? - No one knows which new top-level domains will be added to the Web. But that's not stopping two companies from registering them as trademarks. By Oscar S. Cisneros. [Wired News]   2000 Looms for US Nuclear Plants - A third of the nation's nuclear plants will not meet a self-imposed deadline for Y2K compliance. What's more, 16 percent have yet to take the first step. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   A Baby Step for Encryption - A congressional panel approves a measure to ease export restrictions on encrypted software. But the bill has a bumpy legislative road ahead. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   A Campaign for Privacy - Presidential campaigns ask for ever-more detailed information about their supporters over the Web. Is anybody watching where the information goes? By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   A Crackdown on Credit Fixers - Consumer advocates claim credit-repair sites are one of the top 10 scams on the Net. But a nationwide sweep aims to put them out of business. By Heidi Kriz. [Wired News]   A Digital Milestone for Congress - Senator Strom Thurmond, whose political career is as old as the ENIAC, joins his colleagues in submitting the first-ever piece of digital legislation. Ironically, the bill is encrypted with PGP. A Wired News analysis by Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   A Domain Name Is Not a Toy - Mattel files suit against two speculators hoping to cash in on Barbie-related domain names. [Wired News]   A European's Net View of US - Americans look at regulation and the Net differently than their brethren across the pond. Chris Oakes discusses some of the issues with Euro Union official Gerard De Graaf. [Wired News]   A Fertile Valley for GOP? - Every presidential candidate is courting Silicon Valley for its money and its votes. Although the area is traditionally Democratic, the Republicans see an opportunity. If only they can get the voters to commit. By Lindsey Arent. [Wired News]   A Mickey Mouse Copyright Law? - An online publisher of rare books challenges an extension to the federal copyright law. He blames pressure from Disney and the late Sonny Bono for a bad law. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired News]   A Personal Data Privacy Bureau? - The online industry has failed in its promise to protect consumer data, say privacy advocates who want to turn the job over to a new federal regulatory agency. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   A Prescription for Trouble - Medical boards are cracking down on doctors who carelessly dispense prescription-strength drugs over the Net. New rules are on the way, and more busts are inevitable. By Oscar S. Cisneros. [Wired News]   A Slow Twist on QuickTime - A Microsoft manager denies that his company tried to disable Apple's multimedia software, saying that if there were problems with QuickTime, Apple brought them on itself. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   A Tale of Too-Big Cities - Why have Los Angeles, NYC, and Boston lured the hot multimedia firms, while Silicon Valley and Northern Virginia are hotbeds for high tech? It's all about space, and where the talent wants to live. Declan McCullagh reports from Jackson Hole, Wyoming. [Wired News]   A Tax Break for Snoopable Code - The chair of the House Intelligence committee introduces legislation that would give tax cuts to companies developing crackable crypto. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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