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Slashback: DRM, Eldred, Aridity
Looking sharp in their suits. Declan McCullagh writes: "Here are some photos from after the arguments, including activists who slept on the courthouse steps, an exhausted but optimistic Larry Lessig, and the Internet Archive bookmobile, which visited Washington DC for the event."
A new meaning for 'decimation.' Martin writes "Here is a good write-up on what happened with the whole sendmail hack a week or so back. Apparently every 10th copy of the source that was downloaded from sendmail.org received the trojan'd version. Nice to see a linux hack getting some attention for a change, instead of the usual MS bashing. Here is the write-up."
I won't be charging entrance fees to Shangri La, either. After a report posted the other day indicating that Microsoft was considering charging customers more for certain security features, Software writes "According to a little snippet from Yahoo News (look towards the bottom), Microsoft won't be charging for security updates after all. As Yahoo puts it, 'Microsoft, however, said Mundie was referring to an internal proposal to begin offering stand-alone security software in the future.' No confirmation of this on Microsoft's site for the press"
As denials go, that seems like a weak one.
Where is Deep Fritz's deep game? screenbert writes "In an exciting best-of-eight chess match-up, the human is leading the computer 2 1/2 to 1/2. I find the fractions of winning amusing, almost as amusing as seeing that the best-of-eight series will take at least nine games since one of those games was a draw. For a general overview there is a good review here(1) or here(2) or here(3). And to save the 38 mandatory karma whoring comments I'll say it: Imagine if Deep Fritz ran on a beowolf cluster."
So it's back to BYOB. gnarly writes "An earlier report of detection of water masers on extrasolar planets has been debunked."
Workaround: Get your congresspuppet hooked on Free software. Several readers wondered why (complained that) the post offering a link to the place where you can submit your comments on DRM technology to the Senate Judiciary Committee was posted section-only. So here's a reminder; if you live near D.C. (or get a chance to stop by a local office), perhaps you'll be able to stop to chat a bit about how you determine who gets your vote. (Maybe you should check out the sections, too.)
I hope they get run out of business (or AOL/TW buys them--which is the same thing, isn't it?) Rumor about a merger is here
Someone should also do something about their pedophile infested dot-com division!
You've been trolled. If PhysicsGenius ever says anything that seems innoffensive, it's because he's trying to get karma so he doesn't get banned when he trolls.
Don't worry about it.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
I guess whoever modded this didn't bother reading it... I wonder why I'm not suprised.
It seems that any post about Microsoft that doesn't start with "Microsoft sucks, Linux rules" often gets modded down. My post wasn't even really 'pro' microsoft.
Oh, well. No big deal.
The WWW is an assortment of web pages accessable over the Internet.
Web pages contain "links", called "hyper-links". The idea is that when a word or phrase naturally leads to another page you link it.
Here is a counter-example:
where the text in italics is a link to some photos. See, THE WORD PHOTOS SHOULD BE THE FUCKING LINK.
Next time we will discuss why the word "here" shouldn't be linked, unless it is to here.
-Peter
I knew that, long before I clicked the submit button.
I just had to respond, though. I get steamed when people even suggest that our freedoms are less important than a person's "right" to make a buck.
I'm not worried about it. It's nice to spell stuff like that out once in a while though, don't you think?
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous