Search The Directory The Web for Home > News > Online Archives > Wired > 1997 > Politics New! Submit a site   whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Medicare Halts Work on New Computer System - The Department of Health and Human Services halts work on a technology effort that aimed to streamline payments and save $3 billion over the next decade. [Wired News]   Members of Congress Seek Cassini Delay - Representatives Ron Dellums and Lynn Woolsey, both representing Northern California districts in which opposition to the plutonium-powered mission to Saturn is strong, ask NASA to take another look at the project. [Wired News]   Microsoft to Meet with Nader - Redmond execs apparently want to tell the consumer campaigner why they're giving away their browser and gaining market share. [Wired News]   Microsoft: Feds 'May Misunderstand' Decree - The software-maker says the Justice Department may not be fully mindful of some provisions of a court order that government lawyers signed off on in 1994-95. [Wired News]   Microsoft: Legal Troubles Won't Cost Us - In a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the software firm gushes confidence that it will suffer no adverse financial impact from the suits it faces. Also: The Senate's ready to take up computer export limits. [Wired News]   More Media, Less Killing? - As bad as TV, movies, or the Internet can sometimes be, there is an enormous difference between something that is offensive and something that is dangerous. [Wired News]   Morning Radio Marathon Across America - Jon Katz continues his book tour on "Drive-Time" radio and reiterates his rant: media doesn't cause the problems. [Wired News]   Motorola Joins Anti-Mine Drive - The electronics giant was "horrified" when a 10-cent chip it made turned up in Chinese-built land mines. Now the firm is a leader in a Human Rights Watch anti-mine campaign. [Wired News]   Mrs. and Mr. Roberts' Neighborhood - Cokie and Steven Roberts say the Net threatens democracy. Jon Katz says they are the ones who are threatenning. [Wired News]   Mutant Ruling Down Under - An Australian appeals judge, in an apparently inaccurate reading of US case law, ruled recently that words suggesting a crime are themselves criminal. Net activists see the ruling as a chilling precedent and are going all-out to overturn it. [Wired News]   NBC Number 1 in Rating Gamesmanship, Too - While others were taking alphabetical castor oil - the 'voluntary' V, S, L, and D television content ratings - the Peacock Network found a perch from which it could tell the government to mind its own business, and keep an eye on the bottom line at the same time. [Wired News]   NY Court Gets Net Tour in Decency Case - A US district court judge concedes little knowledge of the Net, as testimony in New York's version of the CDA continues for a second day. [Wired News]   NY Net Decency Law Goes to Court - The American Library Association and others are trying to halt enforcement of the state's version of the Communications Decency Act. [Wired News]   Name Truce in the Offing? - The two-day Forum on Internet Domain Names heard lots of talk about the future of Net self-governance and the distribution of decision-making power. Some consensus was reached, though: Much more talk is necessary, and Uncle Sam has a big role to play for now. [Wired News]   Nasa.com Back in Orbit - A lot of people looking for the nasa.gov site are irked to find the unrelated nasa.com site instead. NASA responded by shutting down nasa.com. It's not as easy as it looks. [Wired News]   Net 'Paradigm Shift' for Slow-Moving Congress - With the Web helping more and more voters make their ballot choices, Congress is struggling to go interactive. [Wired News]   Net Advocates Take the Pulse of Spam - Three groups want to help the FTC make sensible Internet rules with a survey about one of the most annoying features of digital life: junk email. [Wired News]   Net Decency Law Looks Like Dead Meat - In a tough hearing on one of the crucial free-speech cases of the century, some savvy-sounding justices question the sweep of the Communications Decency Act. John Heilemann reports from the high court. [Wired News]   Net Group Tries to Make Microsoft Sweat - A grassroots effort is aimed at getting federal antitrust investigators to resume their scrutiny of the company as it extends its reach further into the Net and users' operating systems. [Wired News]   Net Groups Blast German CompuServe Crackdown - In a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 23 groups in the United States and Europe condemn German prosecutors' latest attempt to hold online services responsible for Internet pornography. [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 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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