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Digital Media Consumer Rights Act Overwiew Digital Media Consumer Rights Act Section by Section Breakdown Congressman Boucher’s Statement to the Press, October 3, 2002 Digital Media Consumer Rights Act Supporter List Copy of the Bill Visit the Site
Reps. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) introduced the Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act (DMCRA), which counterbalances some of the more sweeping provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. Read the Full Article
“It’s more difficult to find help now,” said Penny Rice, former coordinator of OCASS. “It’s a disadvantage to not have one person or a group to contact.” Read the Full Article
But those students often get a rude surprise if they try to transfer to a traditional college: Its course credits don’t count toward anything at many traditional institutions. Read the Full Article
The Internet Society, often known by its acronym, ISOC, will manage the domain starting in 2003, said Mary Hewitt, spokeswoman for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Read the Full Article
The Fall 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting will be held Sunday, October 27 through Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The Program Committee has fashioned a superb program that highlights the work of the Internet2 community. Visit the Conference Site
When Brian Frye decided last winter to head for law school, he knew he’d need a big scholarship to make ends meet. He had an excellent undergraduate record and unusual work experience, but he wasn’t sure how interested schools would be. Read the Full Article
Responding to companies’ needs for greater information security training and in support of new federal government initiatives, RedSiren™ Technologies, Inc., the world’s largest privately held information security solutions firm, today announced the immediate availability of enterprise-wide licensing for courses conducted through its Information Security University™ (InfoSecU™). For the first time, organizations are now able to […]
This paper describes the construction of ‘Reach for the Clouds’, an inventive scheme to build a resident-maintained ‘networked community’ in Atherton Gardens, an ethnically-diverse, low-income, high rise public housing estate in Melbourne, Australia. The project was developed by the InfoXchange, a not-for-profit Internet service provider with a ‘social entrepreneurial’ orientation. It involves a consortium of […]
Education has made significant use of print materials since the invention of the printing press. Students and teachers with so-called print disabilities long had to exert themselves far beyond others to be able to compete in schools and universities. Thousands have done this and succeeded well. Information technology coupled with the necessary adaptive computer technology […]