Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1999 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Caldera: Throw Out MS Motion - In a special hearing to be held next week, Utah software firm Caldera will seek to have Microsoft's motions for dismissal denied. By Chris Stamper. [Wired News]   Campaigns Online, Off the Mark - A citizens group wants presidential candidates to wrap their minds around technology -- and keep their hands off. Few contenders have a clue. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Can Media Make a Killer? - What causes a good geek to go very, very bad? A new federal lawsuit blames videogames, erotic Web sites, and a violent movie for the deaths of three Kentucky high-school students. By Declan McCullagh. [Wired News]   Canada Aligns with EU on Privacy - While the United States resists the European Data Privacy Directive, Canada declares its support for the law aimed at giving consumers more control over their personal information. Matt Friedman reports from Montreal. [Wired News]   Canada Rolls into Fiscal 2000 - As the Canadian government begins fiscal year 2000, an army of bureaucrats keeps a sharp eye on Ottawa's mainframes. Matt Friedman reports from Montreal. [Wired News]   Canada Won't Regulate Net - The Canadian Internet industry breathes a sigh of relief as the government says that it won't ask Canadian Web sites to adhere to Canadian content policies. Not now, not ever. By Pierre Bourque. [Wired News]   Canada's Grid A-OK for Y2K - The Canadian Electricity Association promises a warm and bright Year 2000 for those north of the 49th parallel. Some power stations are already operating in the new century. Marlene Blanshay reports from Montreal. [Wired News]   Canadian Furor Over Net Filters - A Canadian provincial government tries using filters to block its employees' access to Internet sites that feature weapon-making, sex, and hateful material. Opponents call it an abuse of power. Jennifer Ditchburn reports from Ottawa. [Wired News]   Canadian Industry Is Y2K-OK - A gathering of high-level industry execs in Canada assures the country that everyday services will run smoothly in the new year. Jennifer Ditchburn reports from Toronto. [Wired News]   Canadian Privacy Law Dying - A proposed Canadian law that would align the country with Europe on the consumer data privacy issue is all but dead, the apparent victim of Quebec separatist squabbling. By Matt Friedman. [Wired News]   Case Closed for Cracker? - Kevin Mitnick's guilty plea won't stop the underground movement that bears his name. Their rallying cry says it all. Douglas Thomas reports from Los Angeles. [Wired News]   Case: Netscape Makes Browsers? - AOL's chief executive says he'll have nothing to bolster Microsoft's defense when he's deposed as a hostile witness in the antitrust case. [Wired News]   Casting a Wider Net for Learning - An international project to set up educational resource centers that provide Net access in developing countries hopes to foster cultural and political awareness. By Christopher Jones. [Wired News]   Centraal Wins Keyword Court Spat - A court finds in favor of the Internet keyword vendor in a patent-infringement suit brought by its main competitor, Netword. By Chris Oakes. [Wired News]   Chemical Plants Face Y2K Threat - A new report warns that chemical plants face "significant" risk of Y2K related failures. Worse, local governments seem to be oblivious to the problem. [Wired News]   Chemical Plants Under Wraps - A congressman makes a plea not to publish disaster-preparedness information on the Net. He worries it could help terrorists plot an attack. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News]   Child-Porn Ruling Splits Canada - Free-speech advocates are hailing a Canadian judge's ruling that merely possessing child pornography is no crime. Others, shocked, are trying to undo the decision. By Pierre Bourque. [Wired News]   China Cracks Down on Pagers - Shanghai orders paging stations and computer information providers to stop carrying political news. And those who wish to post Web news must ask the state's permission. [Wired News]   China Fought Bombs with Spam - NATO bombs Chinese embassy. Chinese hackers send junk email to NATO. A military official calls it an amateurish attempt at a "cyber blitz." [Wired News]   China Jails a Software Pirate - A man who sold slightly modified software stolen from an unnamed company gets four years imprisonment in what is believed to be the first case of China punishing a software pirate. [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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