Senator Joe Biden has spent 36 years in the Senate.

Biden has alot of favors to take care of. Obama took a HUGE insider as his VP. That alone goes against his stance.. but hey he dumped his chruch pretty quick..

Joe is a great guy. He knows quite a bit about hair plugs. Now if it has an electric plug he is lost.

For a vast number of Americans, details on a candidate has little to do with whether they get their vote. Rather it mostly a popularity contest and who the voter can best relate to. The American voter is old. Majority of Obama supporters are young and less likely to vote.
I don't see Obama being elected - IMHO.
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I will also add to the discussion that if you think that Joe Biden's positions, especially on copyright, won't influence Obama's decisions, I think that's a bit foolish.

At least Biden counters Obama's downright stupid support of the new FISA bill.

It doesn't really matter if he is Anti-piracy anyway.
Bills still have to go through a process of voting and hashing and rehashing and restating and more to get passed.
By the time the proposed bill is "complete", the original idea is so boiled down that loopholes are created and another bill has to be proposed and passed to cover THOSE holes... it's an ongoing process.
Heck, by the time the original idea DOES get passed, 4 years would have come and gone and he may not even be in office anyway.
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Now, for the record, this is not showing favortism to one party or the other. But rather, to calm the masses explaining that they don't have to freak out about it.
You can't kill piracy, and no one ever will (tough luck, RI**).
I buy software, but I also "borrow for an extended period of time" on titles that are way too overpriced to buy (things like OS's, graphic design software, etc.). Not to mention, I am always looking for freeware, or open-source, alternatives to the over-priced titles.
But I stray from my original point.
No one has to worry about new "laws". Piracy will continue to thrive and it won't stop.

Except committee chairman have vast power over what is even allowed to come out of committee for discussion and the form it will take.

You need to go back and find out how the process of legislation actually occurs. And no, it does not just morph in haphazard ways as you seem to assume.

" Hollywood Reporter in May 2007, "When somebody holds you up on the street and takes your wallet, we call it robbery. And when somebody steals your idea and creation, we call it theft, plain and simple."

YES! and when you go to ARBYS and order a burger you should not have to pay twice for the same burger because you gave the burger to someone else

If the burger comes with a copyrighted, single-user lisencing agreement, to which you readily agree as part of your being a customer at Arby's, and then you violate that agreement by giving it to somebody else, then yes, you've violated the law.

In fact, if you work as a chef in a restaurant and then use their exclusive recipes when you open your own place, your former boss can sue you for stealing her intellectual property.

If the burger comes with a copyrighted, single-user lisencing agreement, to which you readily agree as part of your being a customer at Arby's, and then you violate that agreement by giving it to somebody else, then yes, you've violated the law.

In fact, if you work as a chef in a restaurant and then use their exclusive recipes when you open your own place, your former boss can sue you for stealing her intellectual property.

1) Someone is ordering a burger at Arby's?
2) What kind of person wants that burger after the person that ordered it has already "used" it?

Wait a minute, don't answer question #2, pun not intended.

*shudders*

WHAT EVER ! :)

Actually, I thought it was a good article and since it discussed his positions on technology, well, it does fit on the site. Kudos to the site for broadening their scope and provide readers with a variety of news from all over the tech spectrum.

Thanks for the good words, wykidangel. I know some have been asking, why cover essentially political topics on a site called "BetaNews?"

Here's my answer: If you are a network administrator or a software developer, or if you are anyone in a position to improve the way software and technology works and the way information flows for yourself and for other people (including beta testers), then you are in the "Beta" business. So any topic that deals directly with the way the technology is evolving, the way the industry is progressing, and the way the law is protecting its principles and ethics, directly impacts you.

And that makes where Joe Biden and Barack Obama and John McCain and {insert Republican VP nominee here} stand on technology issues, beta news. It's news for us who are in the business of change.

Besides that -- and I know Ed will agree with me on this -- this upcoming US presidential election is easily the most important one in at least the last three decades, if not longer. Our choices will reflect the stand we take on all issues, including technology-related ones; and if we choose not to vote, then apathy is the stand we choose to take. And apathy helps no one.

-SF3

Yeah, and it's a cryin' shame any of the candidates aren't up to the task.

It doesn't matter, as there will be little to no change in the way things are ran. Have you not learned from the past? None of the candidates have ever followed the lines that they set while running, when elected. This is a moot point and just really wasn't worth the read. However, I will give you credit on your attempt at spinning this story to relate to anything. That was a creative work of manipulation.

huh? politics on betanews? WHY? Stick to what you're good at BN

I was going to say they're actually pretty good at writing opinionated blogs and bashing Democrats but Ed's done a great job of actually writing a piece of, just the facts, news. Perhaps it'll catch on here.

This is BetaNews, right? http://www.betanews.com/...ology_issues/1219872202

Yeah, The URL says that it is. Hmmmmmmmm, that is funny.

who cares.... he should use it for better hair plugs....

God these people are boring. Politicians are the bottom of the barrel. I don't care what Biden's position is on anything, he's a fruitcake. Obama's a flake, and the whole damn lot of them are the worst collection of useless idiots I've ever seen gathered in one place. There has got to be a better way to run a country than dealing with these utterly wretched fools. The DNC Convention proves that every night it comes crawling like slime out of the TV set.

With the VP not worth much, the importance of both senator Obama and Senator MCCain are more important than their VPs. Biden's role is pure and simple - go out and do the dirty work of trashing McCain. After that, he gets a nice house, if they win, and health care coverage for life which he allreadys has from being in the Senate.

So this would have been a better article if the article had focused on what are the positions of Senator Obama and Senator McCain. This applies not only to the issue of Net Neutrality but also to taxes as taxes will tend to stifle innovation if not handled properly. Just my opinion.

Have a nice day and let the Dogfights begin (the 2 VPs going for the juggler)

They have a juggler too?

These politicians are really pampered!

Hmmmm...

Just out of curiousity, who do you think is responsible for such issues?

The President doesn't do squat with regards to this except sign or veto legislation.

And WHO, pray tell authors and passes such legislation? Congress. And as a Committee member and Chair of the committee, who was a principal in establishing the laws as they exist today????????

The only good thing about Biden is that he is (at least temporarily) effectively removed from doing more harm in Congress.