] An engineer working for America Online was arrested
] yesterday and charged with stealing 92 million e-mail
] addresses of AOL customers and selling them to spammers
] that were peddling penis enlargement pills and online
] gambling sites.

Yikes!

AOL Worker Is Accused of Selling 93 Million E-Mail Names

] Mr. Hatch also said the induce bill - the name is short
] for "inducement devolves into unlawful child
] exploitation" - was intended to defend children, who he
] said make up about half of the users of file sharing
] software. "This for-profit piracy scheme mostly endangers
] children, who are ill equipped to appreciate the
] illegality or risks of their acts," he said.

Fuck you, Orin Hatch. Has everyone lost their fucking minds?!

At least we have the telcos lining up to fight this, this time.

Bill to Curb Online Piracy Is Challenged as Too Broad

This has become a major mess for AOL; you'd think Google would have
come up with a better answer.

UserFriendly on GMail's Namespace Problem

Here's SPF for qmail-smtpd. It adds Received-SPF:
headers to inbound messages and can be configured to reject
messages under various circumstances, e.g. when SPF says that
the source IP isn't allowed to MAIL FROM: the address in question.

qmail SPF patch

] Four large Internet service providers agreed yesterday to
] a partial truce in their battle with one another over
] potential technology to stop junk e-mail in hopes that
] they can devote their united energy to fighting spam.

SPF is starting to get some traction...

4 Rivals Almost United on Ways to Fight Spam

This is ridiculous. It took more than 600 takes. And its
one shot, no tricks.

New Honda Commercial

]
] Motorola hopes investors will pay up to $19.50 a
] share, or nearly $2.73 billion, for slightly more than 30
] percent of Freescale Semiconductor, its chip subsidiary,
] according to documents filed yesterday by Freescale with
] the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Motorola Will Spin Off 30% of Subsidiary in Microchips

]
] Is the internet on the verge of a meltdown? A non-profit
] organization, People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR),
] is concerned that there is the risk of "imminent
] disruption, degradation, unfair manipulation, and other
] negative impacts on critical Internet services..." PFIR
] believes that the "red flag" warning signs of a potential
] meltdown include "attempts to manipulate key network
] infrastructures such as the domain name system; lawsuits
] over Internet regulatory issues... ever-increasing spam,
] virus, and related problems..."

Thank you, chicken little...

Internet Meltdown?

]
] It appears that BT (British Telecom) intends to move its
] current phone network to an IP-based network by 2009
] thereby sending the circuit-switched technology off to
] the attic.

Phone Always Busy? Must be DDoS on VoIP Network

Micro Fuel Cells Inc has a new "direct methanol" fuel cell that
is small enough for cell phones and is expected to last
2 to 10 times longer than batteries.

(Tom: there's some javascript badness on this page that makes
the bookmarklet not work)

New technology could aid fuel cell manufacturing