[free-sklyarov] AAP at it again - "DMCA essential to the future of E-Commerce"

[tom poe]

On Sunday 23 September 2001 23:30, Will Janoschka wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:07:32 Xcott Craver sacraver at EE.Princeton.EDU said:
> >   SSSCA mandates the inclusion of security technologies nobody
> >   invented yet, and which nobody ever will.
> >     Xcott
>
>      But they can spend lots of your money trying.  The funding part of the
>      leaked SSSCA is interesting.  Funding NIST for six years   
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Hi:  You know, a few weeks ago, I commented on a topic about this.  I follow 
the federal bid proposals across the agencies, and one thing stood out, among 
others.  The NIST is way out of balance with handing out "sole source" 
contracts, compared to other agencies.  Laws are in place to require bids to 
be put to market, but this agency has all but abused the practice of "sole 
source" bidding requirements, which they invariably write off to "he's the 
only one, or that company is the only one".  Interesting fodder for possibly 
taking a closer look at this impression.  It might just be OMBUDSMAN time, 
eh?  Tom