] The framers, of course, believed in the absolute
] necessity of limiting power and pitting power against
] power so that no entity could get overweening power. Yet
] Congress is now attempting, with the Act, to deprive the
] federal courts of jurisdiction to check Congress's
] wayward ways -- in an arena where Congress was
] specifically believed by the framers to be dangerous.
] (Recall that phrase from the First Amendment's
] Establishment Clause, "Congress shall make no law.....)
]
] Do the members of Congress genuinely think that 50 state
] supreme courts -- with a host of disparate views -- could
] possibly keep Congress in check? Or do they perhaps,
] believe that as members of Congress, they need no check?
] My money is on the latter, but either way, they are very
] wrong.

Sigh...

CNN.com - Lunacy of Pledge Protection Act - Sep 23, 2004

]
] As long suspected by some, the IETF is going to be
] closing up the Mail Transfer Agent Authentication in DNS
] (MARID) Working Group according to today's post by Ted
] Hardie, co-AD for Applications. Larry Seltzer of eWeek
] was right on target about this:
]
] The rest of the SID standards process will now be a
] waste of time thanks to Microsoft, and the other
] participants will afterwards pick up the pieces and get
] the job done with another spec.

MARID is Dead

]
] PARIS, Sept. 21 - Iran defied the United Nations' nuclear
] agency on Tuesday, announcing that it had begun
] converting tons of uranium into gas, a crucial step in
] making fuel for a nuclear reactor or a nuclear bomb. The
] International Atomic Energy Agency called Saturday for
] Iran to suspend all such activities.

Iran Moves Toward Enriching Uranium

] The lawsuit, sent to the jury in United States District
] Court for Northern California on Tuesday, asserts that a
] county policy that allows the authorities to smear pepper
] spray ointment on the eyes of protesters constitutes an
] unnecessary and excessive use of force, tantamount to
] torture.

Pepper-Spray Case Goes to Jury in California

] WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 - The Transportation Security
] Administration said Tuesday that it planned to require
] all airlines to turn over records on every passenger
] carried domestically in June, so the agency could test a
] new system to match passenger names against lists of
] known or suspected terrorists.

U.S. Wants Air Traveler Files for Security Test

]
] The marketing effort that has been invested in this
] report is impressive. A friend of mine who has no
] Internet-specific expertise (although interested in
] technology generally) heard about it on the radio here in
] Australia and asked me if I knew of it. But the fact that
] the report is being sold as a product makes it
] intrinsically less valuable to me. Not only can I not
] afford to buy it (as a PhD student), I wouldn't consider
] it very valuable if I were given a complimentary copy,
] since the limited readership reduces the amount of
] intelligent discussion available on it.

Can TCP/IP Survive?

dmv wrote:
] ] The minute your mail starts flowing, a dedicated team of
] ] over a hundred trained Screening and Preselection
] ] Specialists, working 24 hours a day**, will begin
] ] manually reviewing, hand-picking and approving important
] ] correspondence, vigilantly discarding all junk mail.
]
] Like Pigeon-Ranking. Would be effective, if a dreary job.
]
] Can you imagine what you'd actually have to pay people to
] spend their lives skimming email and deleting spam? I know
] when I clean out my sites' spamtraps, after about 1000
] messages I want to KILL.

The DSPAM and CRM114 folks say that humans aren't actually all that accurate anyway...

RE: eProvisia LLC - Spam Eradicator

] SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19 - Standing before 30 executives
] from a Wall Street investment banking customer, Jonathan
] Schwartz, the 38-year-old software executive who is
] trying to revive the foundering computer company Sun
] Microsystems, acknowledged why his company was in
] trouble.

Sun's relaunching itself yet again. Not much new here ... McNeely still hysterically screaming how their going to beat Dell and IBM
because their tech is so much better... or something.

Anyone played with Solaris 10 yet?

Sun Looks to Wall Street in a Comeback Bid

] Record labels and Microsoft are in discussions about ways
] that the next generation of the Windows operating system,
] code-named Longhorn, can support copy-protected CD
] technology.

Labels, Microsoft in talks on CD copying

]
] TCP (The Transport Control Protocol) in particular has
] come in for significant criticism, and a growing body of
] experts believe it will need to be replaced. Indeed, if
] it were easy to change a fundamental Internet Protocol
] this may have been done some time ago. It's the
] complexity of the change management problem that has
] delayed action rather than lack of recognized need for
] change.

Who is this guy?

U: He's involved with internetmark2.org which is selling
(for the low low price of $300) a report on how broken the
internet is.

Can TCP/IP Survive?