] For its part, Verizon has been stressing the privacy
] implications of allowing the use of DMCA subpoenas to
] become more widespread. It's backing Brownback's bill,
] which requires that a lawsuit be filed before an Internet
] user be unmasked. (The exact language: "An Internet
] access service may not be compelled to make available to
] a manufacturer of a digital media product or its
] representative the identity or personal information of a
] subscriber or user of its service"--unless, that is, a
] civil lawsuit or criminal prosecution is pending.)

more backlash against DMCA subpoena foo

] The Dell of software?
]
] Sun's latest plan to convince the world that it has a
] future

This may well be Sun's last stand. They can't beat Dell at hardware (at least not for machines costing less than $50k) and they can't beat IBM at integration/consulting/service.

Economist.com | Sun Microsystems

] This patch change djbdns's dnscache program so that it will ignore
] the IP address given in the ignoreip file. I wrote this patch
] because of Verisign's oh-so helpful wildcard A record for *.COM and
] *.NET.

For those of you running dnscache... this is the new and improved patch which supports blackholing multiple IPs ... apparently, other TLDs are now taking the cue from verisign (sigh):

*.ac 194.205.62.122
*.cc 206.253.214.102
*.com 64.94.110.11
*.cx 219.88.106.80
*.museum 195.7.77.20
*.net 64.94.110.11
*.nu 64.55.105.9
and 212.181.91.6
*.ph 203.119.4.6
*.sh 194.205.62.62
*.tm 194.205.62.62
*.ws 216.35.187.246

Patch for djbdns/dnscache

] Read "The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus" and then see Al on the "Fair
] and Balanced Tour"

Supply Side Jesus

] Someone asked me this morning how to parse the
] MemeStreams RSS feed. So I present this. This is a simple
] Perl script which uses XML::RSS to parse the headlines
] from a number of news sites, including MemeStreams, and
] post them to a Prolite LED sign. There is a lot more in
] that RSS object then a title, but hopefully you can use
] this as a starting point for your projects.

LedNews -- Example RSS perl script

It is gratifying to hear someone like Card share my views on this -- almost letter for letter!

Art Watch - September 7, 2003 - MP3s Are Not the Devil - The Ornery American

] Israel has asked the United States for $9 billion in loan
] guarantees aimed at jumpstarting its economy which has
] been damaged by nearly three years of violence.
]
] The United States had threatened to reduce the package by
] the amount Israel spends on a security barrier cutting
] through the West Bank. Israel and the United States
] disagree over the course of the barrier, with Washington
] trying to minimize the amount of West Bank land included
] on the ``Israeli'' side.

Finally, the US is starting to take a harder line against Israel. I think its fair to say that a lot of our troubles with the Islamic world are directly attributable to our (totally bogus) policy towards Israel.

U.S. Threatens to Cut Aid to Israel Over Barrier

] In the past two decades, the price of textbooks has
] soared. The price of educational books and supplies has
] risen 238 percent, while the price of consumer goods over
] all has increased only 51 percent, according to the
] Consumer Price Index. At four-year private colleges, the
] College Board found, students spent an average of $807 on
] books last year. Some students, particularly science and
] math majors, spent that much in one semester.

I'm glad this issue is getting some attention. We've all had this experience and it keeps getting worse and worse. The textbook industry is totally evil. Maybe its high time for Open Curricula or something.

When Books Break the Bank

] Intel Corp. has built a prototype of a "personal server"
] that could become the personal multimedia diary of the
] future.

Interesting idea....

Intel Foretells 'Personal Server'

Decius wrote:
] bucy wrote:
] ] It built fine for me on debian after I installed the
] ] glut-devel packages. Pretty cute.
]
] Hrm... Cute? I ought to go through the rigamoral of
] installing debian on my laptop in order to play with it, cute?
] Or just cute?

Probably "just cute" at this point. It shows promise but doesn't seem terribly useful (to me) at this point.

RE: 3d file browser for linux