Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Japanese Cops Storm PC Maker - Authorities seize the assets of a computer maker because it is suspected of having ties to the doomsday cult that launched the 1995 nerve gas assault on a Tokyo subway. [Wired News]   Jerry Brown's Oakland.net - The former California governor is Oakland's new mayor. His challenge is to revive a major city that sits smack in the middle of high-tech America. So what's the plan? Christopher Jones reports from Oakland, California. [Wired News]   Jesse Jackson's New Campaign - The civil rights leader says he'll fight to bridge the so-called digital divide between some minorities and the upper echelons of the technology industry. By Joseph Rose. [Wired News]   Journalist Admits Eavesdropping - A freelance writer who taped phone conversations of celebrity couple Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise pleads guilty to a wiretapping charge. [Wired News]   Judge Bork: Break Up Microsoft - Keep Microsoft in line by splitting the company three ways, says the former Supreme Court nominee. [Wired News]   Judge: COPA Went Too Far - Hours before the controversial Child Online Protection Act was to become law, it's declared unconstitutional. What now for Net censorship? Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Justice Department Appeals COPA - With only hours to spare, the Justice Department appealed its loss of a lawsuit that restricted online erotica in the name of protecting children. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Keeping Disaster Data Offline - A House committee passes a bill to keep worst-case chemical disaster assessments off the Internet. By Louise Knapp. [Wired News]   Keeping Tabs on Sex Offenders - Texans -- and everyone else -- can locate the whereabouts of sex offenders by dropping in at the Texas Department of Public Safety Web site. Not everybody thinks that's a good idea. By Jill Priluck. [Wired News]   Keeping the FCC's Mitts Off Net - New legislation introduced Friday will end the Federal Communications Commission's policy of charging for metered Internet connections. Or will it? Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Kennard Takes Up AOL's Cause - AOL gets a boost from the FCC in its quest to regulate what sorts of Internet access that cable companies will be allowed to provide. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Key US Computer Lags on Y2K - The US Department of Health and Human Services switches its tactics on Y2K compliance, jeopardizing federal funding for everything from Medicare to airports. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Kid Glove Treatment for Gates - Microsoft's chief gets a polite, if guarded, reception on Capitol Hill, where he's taking part in a technology summit. His antitrust troubles are scarcely mentioned. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   King for the Domains in Sight - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers finalizes proposals that will lay down the law on .com -- as well as .biz, .xxx, and other future top-level domains. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Klein Mum on MS Trial - The Justice Department's top antitrust lawyer disappoints an audience waiting to hear his take on Microsoft. Free markets? Just another term for nothing left to sue. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Know Your (Customer) Rights - The defeat of far-reaching bank monitoring regulations won't protect individual accounts from surveillance. Privacy advocates of all political stripes mount protests online. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Kosovo Won't Be Televised - International live TV transmission from Kosovo went black Wednesday before the bombs started falling. Serbian police are blamed for a satellite shutdown, preventing Baghdad-like live telecasts. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Landmark Ruling on Encryption - A presidential order limiting encryption exports is ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals panel, which says encryption software is protected by the First Amendment. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Latest Cracker Caper: Nasdaq - The same group that cracked the Drudge Report, C-SPAN, and ABC-TV sites claims responsibility for attacking the Nasdaq-AMEX site. By Chris Oakes and Leander Kahney. [Wired News]   Lawsuits: Free the Domain-Name 7 - There may be gold in f***.com or c***.com. But Network Solutions has refused to sell the domain names. Two separate litigants try to force their release. By Chris Oakes. [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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