] It's time for a solution to the P2P conflict that pays
] artists, not lawyers. S. 2560 isn't only a profound
] threat to innovation, it's yet another step in the wrong
] direction.

The EFF's Statuatory Licensing proposal is far from outrageous.

EFF: EFF's Letter to United States Senators

] The ageing Data Encryption Standard (DES) is no longer
] secure enough for use by government and should be
] replaced by Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) instead,
] according to a key US government standards agency.

US.gov plans DES's retirement | The Register

] A new type of pump to help failing hearts will undergo
] clinical trials in autumn 2004 in the UK. Its design
]
] is intended to solve the problems of mechanical failure
] and blood clotting that have bedevilled artificial hearts
] and pumps since they were invented.
]
] The pump also has a curious side effect: people implanted
] with the device have no pulse.

UPitt has also been working on such a thing for some time, IIRC.

Simpler pump boosts failing hearts

] Radio host Bob Edwards, who drew millions of listeners to
] National Public Radio for three decades but was demoted
] earlier this year, is taking his signature voice to a
] competing radio universe, according to Edwards and
] executives of Washington-based XM Satellite Radio.

Former NPR Host Bob Edwards To Be XM's New Morning Star (washingtonpost.com)

!!!

ACLU - Pizza Flash

]
] The HP leaked memo about MS planning on attacking Linux
] with its patent portfolio is the subject flooding my
] inbox. What else is new? This is a surprise to whom?
] Anyway, memos like this don't leak. They *get* leaked on
] purpose. So, are we shaking in our boots? No. And here is
] why.

According to a memo leaked from HP, M$ is apparently planning a
big patent attack on Linux.

Groklaw: Keeping an Eye on Microsoft

Reuters is running a story that Vint Cerf announced at the ICANN
meeting that ICANN is "turning on IPv6." The story is scant
on details and icann.org has no information. I think they're maybe
talking about publishing IPv6 addresses (IN AAAA) for root servers...
anyone know anything else?

U:
Japan and Korea have apparently "turned it on" insofar as they've
published ipv6 addrs for their root servers.

$ dig -t aaaa a.dns.jp

...

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;a.dns.jp. IN AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
a.dns.jp. 96996 IN AAAA 2001:dc4::1

]
] Clear Channel Radio plans to announce today that it will
] begin limiting the number of commercials its more than
] 1,200 stations can play, in a move that analysts say may
] ripple through the industry even before it takes effect
] on Jan. 1.

Advertising: A Radio Giant Moves to Limit Commercials

]
] In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical
] framework of institutional economics to analyze the
] global policy and governance problems created by the
] assignment of Internet domain names and addresses. "The
] root" is the top of the domain name hierarchy and the
] Internet address space. It is the only point of
] centralized control in what is otherwise a distributed
] and voluntaristic network of networks. Both domain names
] and IP numbers are valuable resources, and their
] assignment on a coordinated basis is essential to the
] technical operation of the Internet. Mueller explains how
] control of the root is being leveraged to control the
] Internet itself in such key areas as trademark and
] copyright protection, surveillance of users, content
] regulation, and regulation of the domain name supply
] industry.

I saw this at the library today. Not sure if some of this has
ended up on CircleID, maybe?

Ruling the Root - The MIT Press

Anyone heard this yet?

Slabs of dub, slices of surrealism, and disembodied "found" voices make their appearance on the latest offering by ambient dub commandos The Orb.

Bicycles & Tricycles returns to the original Orb concept which isn't about songs, but lysergic landscapes. Industrial grinds propel you through one moment, only to be untethered into infinite space the next, before being snagged into synchronicity by a dub groove.

Bicycles and Tricycles | The Orb