] Monitor DPI (pixel density) calculator

Handy.

DPI Calculator

] Poland has tipped the scales by voting against the
] proposed text agreed to by the EU Council in May. A
] majority now opposes the current proposal. Those
] supporting the proposal now lack the votes to pass the
] proposal as written.

Poland Rejects Proposed EU Software Patents - Majority Now Opposed

] Security isn't Microsoft's biggest problem, anyway. Their
] biggest problem is people hate them because of their
] business practices. It takes a while for such feelings to
] reach critical mass, but I believe it is now reaching
] that point. They may have dodged some bullets in the
] antitrust case here in the US, but it left their
] reputation in shreds. Geeks and those in the industry
] already knew Microsoft for what they were, but the
] average guy did not, and when they heard all the evidence
] and Microsoft was found guilty, a sleepy public woke up
] and said to themselves, "They've been doing *that*?"

Groklaw on Ballmer speech

] In a case that has spurred intense soul-searching in
] legal circles, a 25-year-old convicted drug dealer, who
] was arrested two years ago for selling small bags of
] marijuana to a police informant, was sentenced on Tuesday
] to 55 years in prison.

Judge Questions Long Sentence in Drug Case

dmv wrote:
] ] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - EarthLink Inc. ELNK.O and Yahoo
] ] Inc. YHOO.O said on Monday they would begin tests of a
] ] new anti-spam technology that encodes digital signatures
] ] into customers' e-mail as a way to separate legitimate
] ] messages from unwanted spam.
] ]...
] ] Yahoo's DomainKeys embeds outgoing messages with an
] ] encrypted digital signature matched to a signature on the
] ] server computer that sends the message.
]
] In the absence of a consensus, we will again have a
] competition of who carries the most weight and includes the
] most users. This is a good start toward that. If AOL comes
] onboard, we'd have a significant percentage of usage;
] considering that Microsoft, the other big player, has worn out
] its welcome, that may be enough to be declared Critical Mass.

The nice thing here is that consensus isn't really necessary. I think there will be on the order of a dozen authentication technologies out there. The big choice is not which one you verify on inbound mail -- they're not mutually exclusive so check them all -- but which one you use to certify outbound mail. And that choice will be one of which technology fits best into your mail system and users' habits.

RE: Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

]
] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has submitted a
] friend-of-the-court brief [PDF] in a case that could have
] a profound effect on the privacy of Internet
] communications.
]
] The brief argues that the decision in US v. Councilman,
] soon to be reheard by the full First Circuit, should be
] overturned. A panel of First Circuit judges previously
] ruled that it does not violate criminal wiretap laws when
] an email service provider monitors the content of users'
] incoming messages without their knowledge or consent.

EFF Files Brief in Support of Email Privacy

] The country's first criminal trial about spam ended in
] Leesburg, Virginia earlier this month with a conviction
] of Jeremy Jaynes, better known under his nom de spam of
] Gavin Stubberfield. I was an expert witness for the
] prosecution, the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Putting a Spammer in Jail

] more broadly than that, a full dns client-side api is
] needed. we drafted one a couple of years ago but couldn't
] find the funding for it. c and c programmers should
] have the same high level access to the dns protocol that
] perl programmers have (through the excellent Net::DNS
] module).

I finally pinged the IETF DNS WG about resolver API foo that
I've been whining about for years. Here's Vixie's initial reply.

Re: SRV resolver API?

] FreeCulture.org
] an international student movement for free culture

From Lessig's blog.

freeculture.org: an international student movement

] ICANN has initiated arbitration [PDF] (before the ICC's
] International Court of Arbitration) against VeriSign
] under the .net Registry Agreement, seeking declaratory
] judgments that many things VeriSign has done or attempted
] to do over the years (Sitefinder, ConsoliDate, IDN, WLS,
] and stemming the abusive actions of shell registrars when
] they destructively query the registry for secondary
] market purposes) violate that agreement.

ICANN, VeriSign, and the Swamp