Alan Davidson

Alan Davidson
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it was a mixed day for the Internet on Capital Hill.
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It's just a matter of our blokes lifting their game. They haven't been playing to their usual standard.
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Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.
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I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.
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The Internet has flourished as the most revolutionary communications medium in history, based on a model where carriers do not interfere or choose what people do online. Even simply picking winners among services threatens the basic Internet model of communications, where users get to decide which services are the most important to them.
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From a group that cares about civil liberties and cares about kids, this is the right answer.
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Pay teachers to turn up on Saturdays and after school to promote school football. Better facilities would also help.
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Overwhelmingly, businesses are failing to protect themselves by not securing their domain names as trademarks. While the numbers are moving in a positive direction, most businesses on the Internet are at risk that a trademark owner may appear and tell them to 'cease and desist' using that domain name.
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This finding, if it's true, still doesn't change the basic argument we're having about the standards under which Carnivore should be used,
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No, there are a wide range of issues that affect our users, ... related to a number of our services.
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We ought to build systems that encourage 911 location services but that are not just personal tracking systems.