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what's really fucked, according to the wired article, it blocked this photograph ..

where are the skin tones?

Hmmm. According to this Wired story the technology blocks everything but smut.

This could be useful for people who don't want to see their porn cluttered with non-pornographic images on the same page. That stuff could be distracting!

ouch. Since when is the last time you trusted the PR group?
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*LOL* ...maybe that's who he was really working at the time he invented the internet?

Sigh...I submitted this Wired story several days ago. Word as a backup format?

here.

Well, Bill Joy seems to disagree with you, and I would tend to agree with him.

Interesting to note that the entire appeals cout will hear the case instead of the usual three judge panel. Does anyone have more info on why, or how unusual this migth be?

The Yahoo piece suggests it was a coup for MS to get it in front of the appeals court instead of going directly to the Supreme cout. I'm not so sure. To me it looks like Judge Jackson wins since his refusal to stay the conduct rememdies seems to have light a fire under M$'s arse.

Anyone know of one? Here's a solar radio, but haven't been able to find a server.. I'd sure like to solar power my DSL server 8P.. anyone doing this?

The way things are now, every time we log on to Web page we send up a foul little gush of soot somewhere.

I want a solar-powered logo on every Web page I see. I refuse to buy anything off your cheap, sleazy, oil-powered Web site. I want a clean Web. I don't want to be part of the problem every time I log on. I'm sick of living with that. It revolts me.

Bruce Sterling

• Industrial processes
• Environmental toxins and pollutants
• Space station air quality
• Medicine / body functions
• Food processing
• Military enviromnent
• Toxicology

• Quotidiano: Researchers developing an electronic nose
• JSOnline: Electronic nose takes on a higher profile
• Electronic Nose Club
• Electronic Nose Inspects Cheese, Hints At Human Sense of Smell Caltech Microelectronic Research Group
• Warwick-Southampton Electronic Nose Group
• Isoen2000 Olfactory and Electronic Nose 2000
• Press Releases: Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Fresh Fruit
• Electronic Nose Workshop
• Food Explorer Electronic Nose
• Electronic Nose User Forum
• An Electronic Nose For Business, NSF, NASA, and Others
• Wired: Electronic Nose

This was a wired story.. here is a link.

//Phizzy

There's been an example of this in New Zealand just in the past week. An indigenous fishing company, Moana Pacific, discovered the domain moanapacific.com had been registered by a competitor.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz /storydisplay.cfm?storyID=139411

They successfully had the domain overturned.

Wired has an article in the same vein as the CNN one:

http://www.wired.com/news/p olitics/0,1283,36899,00.html

Cheers,
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Yes, it was in the February 2000 issue (issue 8.02). It is on their Web site under the 8.02 section, and the article is entitled "Game Over." Overall, a good article...worth a read.

"The more we go digital, the less of a foothold pinball has, because the game is still sunk waist-deep in the old electromechanical biome. [...]In essence, the preferred playspace is no longer physical space at all, but the increasingly immersive digital space. Ironically, it was pinball that first seduced us into exploring a world behind glass, a world we could touch only by fusing our fingers with control devices. In retrospect, pinball was only a bridge between the machine age and the digital age. Like it or not, we have reached the farther shore."

Here's an article that was in wired magazine a while ago. "Game Over"

It was a while ago that I read it, but I think it mentioned the biggest pinball machine manufacturor had stopped making them. To big, bulky, fragile, and not exciting enough for the kids with no imagination.

Call me naive, but for some reason up until now I was actually buying the bullshit they were feeding me. I actually thought they were going after my.mp3.com because it broke copyright and facilitated piracy. I had my doubts once I'd gone and tried it out myself. Now it makes perfect sense that the more cynical (hell, smart) have been screaming the word money. They don't care about this stuff being done online. They care that they're not making enormous amounts of money on it.

Yet...

there is an article about it up at wired.

sure the register had something about it too, but can't find it now

btw is it just me or does their new format make it really hard to see where one article starts and another ends? still a great site tho.

Take a look at this: Video Clothes: 'Brand' New Idea . I might as well post it here, where it's relevant, if i submit it, it's going to get declined anyway.

ARTICLES ABOUT LINUX GOING MAINSTREAM BEGINNING TO GO MAINSTREAM
News Organizations Feel More Comfortable About Reporting On Open-Source OS

ATLANTA, GA (AP) - News organizations such as CNN and ABC News are beginning to warm up to the Linux operating system. Linux, which is an "open source" operating system that provides an alternative to Microsoft Windows, has been seeing gradually more media coverage over the course of the past year or so. Although the popular operating system has been in use in the industry's mainstream for quite some time now, news stories about the OS's mainstream status were considered "fringe" by major media outlets, and were generally avoided.

"A year or so ago, you would never have seen an article about how Linux has entered the mainstream," explained Steve Kinsworth, a senior editor at Brill's Content. "Articles like that were considered 'niche articles' that had a very limited readership. The majority of people would have no use for such articles, and would be better served by articles about systems such as Microsoft Windows. These days, though, everybody is jumping on the Linux mainstream reporting bandwagon. Reporting about Linux's mainstream status has jumped from fringe to mainstream. We are very excited by all this."

Leonard Shaffer, Vice-President of Corporate Egotism at Wired, echoed Kinsworth's sentiments. "The media is in love with Linux and stories about how it has gone mainstream. Just a few months ago, if you had gone into your editor's office and suggested doing an article about Linux, the response would have been 'Huh?' or 'You wanna write about what?' These days, editors and managers all over are chomping at the bit to get more coverage of mainstream Linux onto the pages of their magazine."

Not everybody shares the enthusiasm, however. Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp. and owner of the Fox News Channel, has publicly decried the coverage of the operating system. "I am deeply disturbed by the mainstreaming of coverage of Linux as mainstream," Murdoch said. "We at the Fox News Channel cater to the Christian Right and to ultra-paranoid conservatives," Murdoch explained. "We have absolutely no interest in blubbering all over some sort of leftist free-love collectivist liberal mishmash of computer code." Fox News contributor Bob Dornan agreed, calling Linux author Linus Torvalds "the anti-Christ."

Ted Turner contributed to this story.

• There are a dozen game sites at least as good as this one. It's nothing new.
• How many articles focusing on "Games are violent" "I'm addicted to games" "I play games... and I'm a girl!" can you possibly stand?
• The writers are smug, but in the wrong way. Rather than obsessing on their own substance abuse or misspent youth, maybe they should talk about the games, point their hip cynical cleverness at the true topic at hand. For my money, a site like Something Awful does a much better job of expressing game "culture" by writing well about games themselves. And yes, some of the reviews are hilarious bitchslaps, but that's appropriate. SA's writers are contributing to gaming culture's smart-aleck, blunt, trash-talking nature, not writing article's spelling out these attributes.

According to Wired, Napster reached an accomodation with Offspring

Hmm, kind of gives you that warm fuzzy feeling again about Napster, doesn't it :)

According to this article on Wired, both Napster and Offspring decided to sell the merchandize. So nobody is ripping nobody off.

For:
Courtney Love

and they are not the only one testing the internet waters, check out this article on wired about India's use of the web help the farmers of the country...

TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken

and they are not the only one testing the internet waters, check out this article on wired about India's use of the web help the farmers of the country...

TastesLikeHerringFlavoredChicken

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The Rolling Stone interview linked from the offspring's website (http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/ne wsarticle.asp?afl=&NewsID=1069 4&ArtistID=153) said that the reason they came out was that Wired pissed them off saying they were thinking about suing. Anyone see the Wired article about how The Offspring is ripping off Napster? http://www.wired.com/news/cu lture/0,1284,36733,00.html

I wonder how long until someone hacks up this Quake level to replace Eminem with a Napster character. Little kitty blowing away the Doctor. Haha.

Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.

I wonder how long until someone hacks up this Quake level to replace Eminem with a Napster character. Little kitty blowing away the Doctor. Haha.

Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.

Dude where have you been in the past few years?
MSFTs competitors have been making better products for years... Netscape, Borland, Novell, Sun to name a few.

Maybe you need to read the findings of the fact and see how MSFT punished OEMs who tried to include competitor products in their installation packages, or how MSFT has deliberately reneged on contracts, agreements and deals they have made with both the government and other corporations when they thought they could get away with it. Frankly I am as much against the government becoming involved in the world of software as the next guy but this is a case where it is needed. For instance, do you think Linux would be such a mainstream success if not for the DOJ investigation? Hell, no. Do you think the Dells and Compaqs would be selling Linux servers today if not for the fact that they are sure there will be no reprisal from MSFT? Heck, they didn't even have the balls to defy MSFT and preinstall Netscape Navigator on their machines when Netscape was still clearly better than MSIE. And remember that these sell more linux servers than pure linux companies.

Dammit, I have to go, the girlfriend's getting mad but a quick wrap up. No matter how good Linux, Mac OS or BeOS etc are MSFT would still control the desktop server market by any means necessary and is now using all sorts of bundling and machinations (Kerberos, MS Java, etc) to leverage that into forcing a server monopoly. They need to be stopped and it looks like the market would never have done it.

On a side note -- Wired magazine had an article a few days ago about how American Express will no longer cover credit card transactions from porn sites. AMEX says that porn sites have such a high charge back rate from fraud that they are no longer interested in working with those companies. One thing the article pointed out is that a lot of the fraud from these sites doesn't come from stolen cards or invalid numbers, but from people disputing what are probably valid charges because they don't want to admit to embarassing purchases. ("No, honey, I don't know how that charge got on my bill. Someone must have stolen my card...")

Considering how lucrative the online market is for porn and other goods and services people would rather purchase with the benefit of anonymity, credit card companies should probably focus some of their security research on techniques for nonrepudiation, not just improving methods for authentication and preventing interception of card numbers.

***BZZZTTTT*** I'm sorry; that answer is not correct.

The correct answer is: The Supreme Court has upheld the right to anonymous speech in several cases (e.g. MacIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, Talley v. California).

Assuming true anonymity were possible, the person harmed has no recourse. It is almost impossible to "un-prove" something.

First of all, true anonymity is certainly possible. If I were so inclined, it would be simple enough for me to post an AC message declaring "K33FA IZ A D00FUS" instead of tearing apart your position using facts and logic.

As for "recourse", it is impossible in any case to refute every hare-brained notion that someone might circulate. Ultimately, it comes down to a matter of credibility -- which is the advantage of this post over the random insult described in the previous paragraph.
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From the article:"In Georgia, the rail plow is ahead of schedule, digging up the red clay at a rate of three miles a day. One moment Smith and Meiklejohn are calculating how long it will take the man who restores the gravel portion near the track to catch up with the unexpectedly fast work of the plow. The next moment they're determining where the nine-car train can be pulled off the tracks so a scheduled freight can pass."

Useing the existing railroad system solves many other logisticle issues such as how to get thousands of miles of fibre optic cable to the rail plow in an affordable way (by rail!, of course).
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From the article:"In Georgia, the rail plow is ahead of schedule, digging up the red clay at a rate of three miles a day. One moment Smith and Meiklejohn are calculating how long it will take the man who restores the gravel portion near the track to catch up with the unexpectedly fast work of the plow. The next moment they're determining where the nine-car train can be pulled off the tracks so a scheduled freight can pass."

Useing the existing railroad system solves many other logisticle issues such as how to get thousands of miles of fibre optic cable to the rail plow in an affordable way (by rail!, of course).
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But is this "satellite-related data" which requires an ITAR license for export?

Who owns the undersea cables?

If they're mostly owned by US-based companies, then the US negotiators were probably laughing up their sleeves when they made this "concession."

Maybe Neal Stephenson can track it down for us...

Recent legislation (May 16, 2000) has recently been passed and is now actually on the books. This new law is an amendment to the United States Code and it may lead to taxation of IP telephony.

Here is the bill with the amendment.

The bill is supposed to not allow the taxation of internet services, but at the last minute due to pressure from the TelCo companies, a new paragraph was added to the end making IP Telephony taxable.

What do you guys think?

For more information:
Internet Rally against HR1291
A Wired.com article about this legislation.
A ZDNet article.

Rami James
Pixel Pusher
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However, perhaps this problem could be alleviated with a government backed authentication scheme. This may sound like sci fi (and it is), but it's essentially a digital analogy of your driver's license or social insurance number, but for each and every citizen. It has to be government backed in order to be trustable and to ensure each person has an digital identity. Plus, the government already tracks information like who is the child of whom.

Then, whenever a site needed to verify that a person is either over the age of 13 or that his or her parent consented, the end user can authenticate him or herself.

A shadow identity may also be an interesting twist on this.

Clinton is so right.

The basic principle is use modern materials to ensure that ou can spin the thing much faster than traditional flywheels, whilst making sure that in the event of catastrophic failure it doesn't kill any people near it (which won't be a problem on a sat). Using magnetic bearings and mounting the wheel in vacuo, there is very little frictional energy loss.

More here, with echoes of Slashdot's suspicions.

"Posted, wondering if there's life in these old threads once they drop off the main page."
I guess not. But, in case anyone's still reading, here's Wired's article

Please alert Timothy that this site's main value is that it helps busy people home in on quality net content that is relevant to their techno-geek interests. Posting this guy's class report on F 451 is not only preaching to the choir, but it's absolutely redundant and off-topic. It should be a given that anyone visiting this site has read F 451. If they haven't covered the prerequisites for browsing SlashDot, then they should find everything over their head and quietly click on the back button until they return to the Wired article that linked them here.

OTOH, every page view counts to a commercial enterprise... Maybe it's better to retain the mainstream visitors by writing on that level. Follow the style guide used by newspapers and anytime the word 'internet' is used in an article on SlashDot, follow it up with 'the network that connects computers around the world'.

There was an article in today's Wired explaining Britain's lack of interest in tech and IPO's, and this same attitude helps explain why strong encryption isn't regarded as such a threat there.

The socialist mindset of the typical European is such that "civility" is considered one the the highest attributes a person should posses. This dictates a deep social drift towards peace, and as such things like terrorists aren't generally feared because guns and such are so rare. To quote from the article:

"The full-blown libertarian futurism that's propagated by (Wired magazine) is not well received in this country," he said. "People here loathe that stuff."

Indeed, in states with strong socialist tendencies fear of terrorism and making money just aren't concerns for most people. Contrast that with the US, where "Libertarian futurism" is considered the only valid social choice, and it becomes clear why the US backs export restrictions on encryption. As a violent country (compared with the rest of the world), US citizens understand the inherent evil that many posses, and therefore seek to limit the ways these people can damage their country. The paradox of simultaneously owning weapons of their own is lost on these people, but it can not be denied that their familiarity with violence makes them more naturally disposed to understanding the many ways it can manifest itself.

There was an article in today's Wired explaining Britain's lack of interest in tech and IPO's, and this same attitude helps explain why strong encryption isn't regarded as such a threat there.

The socialist mindset of the typical European is such that "civility" is considered one the the highest attributes a person should posses. This dictates a deep social drift towards peace, and as such things like terrorists aren't generally feared because guns and such are so rare. To quote from the article:

"The full-blown libertarian futurism that's propagated by (Wired magazine) is not well received in this country," he said. "People here loathe that stuff."

Indeed, in states with strong socialist tendencies fear of terrorism and making money just aren't concerns for most people. Contrast that with the US, where "Libertarian futurism" is considered the only valid social choice, and it becomes clear why the US backs export restrictions on encryption. As a violent country (compared with the rest of the world), US citizens understand the inherent evil that many posses, and therefore seek to limit the ways these people can damage their country. The paradox of simultaneously owning weapons of their own is lost on these people, but it can not be denied that their familiarity with violence makes them more naturally disposed to understanding the many ways it can manifest itself.

A source familiar with the products confirmed that IBM will this week unveil an agreement to use its copper and silicon-on-insulator technology to make chips for Hewlett-Packard

My former university (Cornell) has always stood up for its students right to free speech on the internet. e.g. Godfrey vs Cornell. This is important, because it goes to the heart of what a university is - an institution where freedom of expression is respected. And yes, Oxford does have all that money.

I would argue that it is hard to comment or report upon something without actually viewing what it is that is to be commented on. So even those posters who merely posted the entire document could be said to be furthering disscussion on the document.

At least one 9th Circuit judge disagrees with you. Judge Ronald M. Whyte, who is also the judge in the Sun v. Microsoft case, ruled against H. Keith Henson for doing precisely this--posting the entirety of a short document on a Usenet newsgroup to discuss its ramifications. A Wired article discusses this. It was Henson's contention that the document, NOTS 34, demonstrated illegal practice of medicine by the Scientology cult.

Judge Whyte was roundly criticized in a Wall Street Journal article for "Pecksniffian literalness" and for having "turned copyright law on its head."

The document, NOTS 34, is discussed, along with many other such documents, at Dave Touretzky's NOTS Scholars Page, and a description of the earlier parts of the trial is at Ron Newman's old page while the jury trial for damages is transcribed at Sten-Arne Zerpe's page. Incidentally, Judge Whyte dismissed trade secret claims in this litigation based on Internet distribution, as well as similar claims in other cases.

Quote: "A CD has much higher fidelity, liner notes, graphics. It's not going to be threatened by a cruddy MP3 file."

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