tina wrote:
] ] By selecting Edwards, Kerry went with the smooth-talking
] ] Southern populist over more seasoned politicians in hopes
] ] of injecting vigor and small-town appeal to the
] ] Democratic presidential ticket.
]
] Totally works for me. I fall for the hot young populsits every
] damn time.

The gamble here is that Edwards will help pick up votes
in rural America, esp the South. Whatever you think of Cheny,
he is certainly a skilled and experienced politician -- probably
more so than Edwards.

RE: Kerry Picks Edwards!

] REGULATORS FROM the UK, US and Australia have formed a
] mutual defence pact to battle spam.

Australia, US, Britain declare war on spammers

] Evidence is growing that IPv9, hyped up the
] widely-adopted foundation of a next generation Internet
] infrastructure in China, is really a marginal project
] backed by few even in China.

China disowns IPv9 hype

Mike the Usurper wrote:
] That's when Cheney unloaded with the "F-bomb,"

NPR dutifully reported it on All Things Considered
this afternoon :P

RE: Way to go, dick.

] The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA) is a
] collaborative effort between six leading Mailbox
] Providers and the Internet community to establish
] technical and non-technical solutions for handling
] unwanted and unsolicited e-mail (spam). ASTA founding
] members include America Online, British Telecom, Comcast,
] Earthlink, Microsoft, and Yahoo!. We came together
] because we share a common set of experiences and problems
] associated with spam. It is our intent to promote an
] inclusive process that embraces a broad range of ideas
] while ensuring that all proposals and recommendations
] address economic, technical, user, and resource impacts.
] To that end, we have involved representatives of state,
] federal, and international governments, consumer advocacy
] groups, marketers, large commercial e-mail senders,
] enterprises of all sizes, technology providers, industry
] standards groups, and trade groups representing other
] interests.

Postmaster.Info: The Proposal

] Internet mail suffers from the fact that much unwanted
] mail is sent using spoofed addresses %u2013- "spoofed" in
] this case means the address is used without the
] permission of the domain owner. This document describes
] mechanisms by which a domain owner can publish its set of
] outgoing MTAs, and mechanisms by which SMTP servers can
] determine what email address is allegedly responsible for
] most proximately introducing a message into the Internet
] mail system, and whether that introduction is authorized
] by the owner of the domain contained in that email
] address.

Here's the internet draft. This is the merger of Microsoft's "Caller ID for email" and SPF.

I-D: MTA Authentication Records in DNS

]
] Canadian broadband wireless technology provider Wi-LAN is
] suing industry giant Cisco Systems for patent
] infringement, Wi-LAN officials announced Thursday. And if
] the lawsuit goes well, the company may keep on suing.
]
] All of the patents in question relate to OFDM (orthogonal
] frequency division multiplexing), the modulation
] technique that enables high-speed data transfers for both
] the 802.11g and 802.11a IEEE WLAN (wireless LAN)
] standards.

Is Wi-LAN looking to be the rambus of 802.11?

Wi-LAN Sues Cisco over Data-Transfer Patents

Kick ass!

Ghost in the Shell 2 - In theaters Summer 2004

] The Supreme Court today placed more limits on the power
] of judges to decide sentences for criminals, voting 5 to
] 4 to set aside a prison term in a Washington State
] kidnapping. The four dissenters predicted that the
] decision would wreak havoc on sentencing procedures in
] many states, and perhaps in the federal penal system as
] well.

This doesn't seem to directly speak to minimum-sentence laws but I'm
not really familiar enough with the case-law to say...

Justices Tighten Limits on Judges in Sentencing

] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Communications Commission
] Chairman Michael Powell plans to offer to Nextel
] Communications Inc. (NXTL.O) the airwaves the company
] wants, in order to end interference with public safety
] communications in another band, a source close to the
] matter said on Wednesday.

F.C.C. Chief Said to Back Nextel Plan for Airwaves