Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said the bill, to be introduced next week, will create a "universal obligation for all online companies" to not track people who set a browser flag or cookie saying they don't want to be tracked.

"This bill will offer a simple, straightforward way for people to stop companies from tracking their every move on the internet."

Sony has given us a flurry of updates describing the steps being taken to get the service back up, the company has announced that PlayStation Network members will be given a year of identity theft protection, and Sony CEO Howard Stringer has offered another apology.

It's a simple thing to order a new credit card and change your passwords, but when we buy a game we expect it to work online. We want to play it right the heck now, and some gamers are going to be flat out angry after an outage this long.

LastPassLastPass, a Web based password management firm, advised its customers to change the password they use to access the service following what the company discovered signs that its network may have been compromised.

An analysis of the outbound data transfer from the server is large enough to have included "people's email addresses, the server salt and their salted password hashes from the database."

The request came from officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that in February took the unprecedented step of seizing domain names accused of streaming live pay-per-view sporting events.

According to a blog post published on Thursday by Mozilla General Counsel Harvey Anderson, ICE officials alleged MafiaaFire circumvented their seizure order and asked Mozilla to remove it.

For all organisms, the ultimate goal is to pass on one's genes. The problem with altruism is that sacrificing individual gains for the greater good can compromise that goal

The robots have two independently operating wheels and a "nervous system" composed of sensors and a camera, which allow them to detect small discs - a stand in for food.

Some of these "mutations" helped the robots better gather the food disks, while some made the robots less efficient at the task.

The more closely related the robots, the quicker they cooperated.

You can't trust anyone on the Web. Just ask the millions of people who signed up for Sony's PlayStation Network and who now must protect against possible hack attacks on their bank accounts and other private data lost due the recent data breach.

In addition to your credit card number and e-mail address, Web services may require--or at least request--other personal information. Unless the company will be shipping something to you, there's no need to give out your street or mailing address.

For example, when a service requires that I fill in my birth date, I use the earliest date it allows, such as January 1, 1905. I get a big kick out of seeing the geriatric-aid ads this generates.

In a "compound" near an area deep inside Pakistan called Abottabad - not far from the capital of Islamabad - U.S. operatives engaged in a "firefight" with bin Laden's handlers, Obama said, and killed the terrorist leader.

The Afghanistan war will surely continue. Drone strikes in Pakistan will surely continue. Al-Qaida will surely proclaim imminently that it's merely transitioning into its next phase. But Obama called it the "most significant achievement to date in our effort to defeat al-Qaida."

The most dire scenario is that attackers gained, or tried to gain, control of the part of Sony's network that issues updates for the PlayStation 3.

"It's justification for Sony freaking out. They could lose control of their whole PS3 network."

Researchers speculating on the cause of the PSN breach are reading the posts as evidence that it may be possible to override Sony's security using modded PS3s, particularly if it was premised on the assumption that it was impossible for jailbroken consoles to access the network.

Dominating the discussions is the labels concern that personal cloud services will exacerbate piracy and erode their business even further.

All songs without a proof of purchase would be assumed to be unauthorized and not accepted into the system.

Sony wants loading to happen from only one computer. Each locker owner would have to designate a single location from which they could upload songs. Users could load music from either their laptop or desktop or office computer but not all three.

Locker owners would only be able to download their music files a single time if they claimed they were lost. All future downloads would be forbidden.

What WMG would like to see happen is that a central locker authority would administer all locker assignments.

Got enemies on Facebook? Facebook is so eager to protect copyright that the mere accusation of copyright infringement is enough to get an account locked.

Prior to the account lockout, we had received no notices of infringement or warnings. Truly, we awoke to find that Facebook had summoned a judge, jury, and executioner and carried out its swift brand of McJustice all without bothering to let us know that there was even a problem.