] In practice, Kohno's paper says, his techniques "exploit
] the fact that most modern TCP stacks implement the TCP
] timestamps option from RFC 1323 whereby, for performance
] purposes, each party in a TCP flow includes information
] about its perception of time in each outgoing packet. A
] fingerprinter can use the information contained within
] the TCP headers to estimate a device's clock skew and
] thereby fingerprint a physical device."

Your TCP packets all contain a cookie.

Tracking PCs anywhere on the Net | CNET News.com

] In the next stage they plan to use stem cells from
] aborted foetuses to create an animal whose brain cells
] are 100 per cent human.
]
] Last week, the university's ethics committee
] approved the research, under certain conditions. Prof
] Henry Greely, the head of the committee, said: "If the
] mouse shows human-like behaviours, like improved memory
] or problem-solving, it's time to stop."

Well, thats gunna piss some people off... Make sure you read both pages of the article.

Science News : 'Stuart Little' mouse soon to have a human brain

] Have you ever wondered what good it does when they look at
] your driver's license at the airport? Let me assure you,
] as a former bureaucrat partly responsible for the 1996
] decision to create a photo-ID requirement, it no longer
] does any good whatsoever.

Post election season Richard Clarke is sounding like a more reasonable guy. An interesting mix of commentary here on ID requirements. I'm hardly convinced that smart cards and a big computer network are going to make it harder to forge an ID. I agree that government policies which seemed properly limited to real terrorism fighting would go along way toward earning trust, but in 15 years that I've paid attention to this I haven't been particularly impressed.

The New York Times - The Security Adviser: Real ID's, Real Dangers

] Warren Buffett, one of the world's most successful
] investors, has launched his most withering attack to date
] on the US trade deficit, describing Americans as "rich
] spending junkies" who could turn into a nation of
] "sharecroppers".

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Buffett attacks American spending junkies

] Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top
] of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the
] millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the
] bitstream.

Probably required skimming for people interested in things like MemeStreams.

This article underlines why Apple's "99 cents a song" model will go the way of the 8 track. Micropayments only make sense to accountants.

The price of the content that you want will be low, because you won't want the lowest common denominator "pop" information. You'll want the niche stuff with low demand. As price approaches zero the cost of music begins to look a bit like cellphone airtime. It will varry greatly depending on what new tracks you are checking out and how popular they are. Customers in this world will demand some way to make costs predictable, as they do with other metered services. And so the flat rate music service wins.

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail

] I yanked the kickass soundtrack from the North Korean
] Delegation animation. Quite frankly, I'm sticking this in
] iTunes and keeping it on repeat on my iPod as I ride the
] Greyhound to New York City for 8 hours. Meanwhile,
] remixers, start your engines!

Xeni Jardin's North Korean Blog adventure.

Boing Boing: North Korea promotes vacations with wacky Flash movie

] The next step is to build a real detector and then, if
] that works, to convince the authorities to support
] widespread deployment. A system that scanned every lorry
] coming into the United States would, the researchers
] estimate, cost about $1 billion. That is a lot of money
] in most contexts, but not all that much in the context of
] nuclear defence. The existing missile-defence programme
] has already cost over $130 billion, and is scheduled to
] spend at least another $50 billion in the next five
] years. And unlike missile interceptors, which on February
] 13th spectacularly failed their second test in two
] months, detectors at America's borders should actually
] work. Madness, it seems, may give way to science.

Economist.com | Finding nukes

Congrats to Tyree and Alisa Peters, who tied the knot on 3/4/05!!!

Congrats to Tyree and Alisa

Have you seent he new BK TV spot with Darius Rucker looking like a singing rhinestone cowboy? All I can say is WTF?!? . I quickly recognized the tune as "Big Rock Candy Mountain" but I didn't realize times had gotten so tough for Darius.

The lastest from Crispin Porter + Bogusky for Burger King is this strange commercial for their Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch sandwich. It is like an Old Navy ad on acid with some Playboy/Penthouse thrown in for good measure, somewhat typical of David LaChapelle's work.

One of the stranger things about this ad is the number of B-list celebrities. The ad stars Darius Rucker (a.k.a Hootie), the lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish, fitted out in cowboy gear, singing new lyrics to the tune of "Big Rock Candy Mountain", an old bluegrass song.

Yeah, this is the strangest commercial that I have seen in a while, for a kind of gross sounding sandwich. Ranch on a burger? And how can something be both tender and crisp at the same time?

Cowboy Hootie sings for Burger King

] Apple's attorney Riley countered by saying that free
] speech protection applied only to legitimate members of
] the press and not to website publishers. Freedom of the
] press was for the press, meaning the traditional media,
] he said.

The judge ruled in favor of Apple without explanation.

Bloggers not protected by Constitution, says Apple