 The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh. He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period". Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web. "What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said. "Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring." ...
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 Privacy worries over web's future |
The next phase of the web could face "big privacy" issues, a senior UK academic has warned. Hugh Glaser of the University of Southampton made the comments at the WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh. He was describing the semantic web, an attempt to make the web more intelligent. Privacy problems could occur, he said, because the semantic web deliberately combines multiple sources of information about people and places. Although some semantic web programs have been developed, it will be many years before they are publicly available. "I don't want to even speculate on when people may be using it," said Mr Glaser. However, researchers are keen to start tackling concerns about the next wave of web technology early. ...
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| Clear Sailing For Immigration Bill Senate Votes To Close Debate; Final Passage Expected This Week |
The Senate voted Wednesday to limit debate on election-year immigration legislation, clearing the way for final passage later this week of a bill that calls for tougher border security as well as an eventual chance at citizenship for millions of men and women in the country illegally. The vote to advance the measure was 73-25, 13 more than the 60 needed. The outcome was not a surprise, and even some of the bill's opponents said they were satisfied they had been given ample opportunity over past weeks to try and give the bill a more conservative cast. CBS News correspondent Bob Fuss reports that after more amendments, the bill will likely pass Thursday. But then comes the hard part – reconciling it with an enforcement-only bill that passed the House, declaring everyone here without papers a felon and making it a crime to help them. ...
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| Afghan clash 'kills 60 Taleban' |
Sixty suspected Taleban militants and five Afghan security personnel have died in a major clash in the south, a top Afghan military commander says. The fighting took place in Uruzgan province late on Tuesday, Gen Rahmatullah Raufi told reporters. The US military in Afghanistan has confirmed the incident, but says only 24 militants have been killed. Separately, a UK spokesman says a British aircraft has been involved in an incident in Helmand province. No details are available but reports say an aircraft is on fire in the airstrip at the provincial capital, Lashkargah. A BBC correspondent says he can see a huge plume of black smoke from the site. US-led coalition forces and Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were involved in the fighting in Uruzgan which took place near the provincial capital Tirin Kot. Officials say the clash began when a joint ANA and coalition patrol came under attack. ...
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| Hamas denounces Bush over borders |
Palestinian militant group Hamas has denounced the US president's support for Israeli plans to unilaterally redraw its borders if peace talks fail. A Hamas spokesman said it would spell the end for the Palestinian cause. George W Bush described Israel's plan as "bold" after talks with Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, but urged him to pursue direct talks with the Palestinians. Hamas, branded a terror group by the US, Israel, and the EU, won elections in January and formed a government. Mr Olmert is proposing the withdrawal of tens of thousands of Israelis from isolated settlements in the West Bank while, at the same time, consolidating other settlements housing hundreds of thousands of others. Palestinians see the Israeli plan as a land grab of territory captured by Israel in 1967 and have condemned it. ...
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| Tariq Aziz, one of Saddam's top aides, testifies that a 1982 crackdown on Shiites was needed |
Tariq Aziz, once a close member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle, testified for the defense in Saddam Hussein's trial, saying the regime had to strike back with a crackdown on a Shiite town after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former Iraqi leader.The 70-year-old Aziz, a former foreign minister and deputy prime minister, took the stand wearing checkered pajamas and looking pale. Aziz, who is in U.S. custody, has complained of health problems and his family has been pressing for him to be released temporarily for medical treatment.Chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman opened the session with a sharp warning to the defense lawyers and the eight defendants that he would not allow insults to the court. In the previous session, Abdel-Rahman threw out a defense attorney when she tried to speak after he warned he not to....
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