OMG! Its like a car. Except that its like a bike. Except that its like a fighter jet.

I used to dream of vehicles almost exactly like this when I was in elementary school! My imaginary carbike was red with beige interior. You sat with your legs almost directly out in front of you, like sitting on the floor. It could seat two, but just barely. It had two wheels at full speed, but when it slowed down two stabalizer wheels would automatically fold out of the sides and touch the ground. And it had front mounted machine guns and a rear oil slick capability, of course.

I used to imagine weaving it through traffic at high rates of speed on important national security type missions while stuck in the back seat of our car on long, long holiday drives... Its kind of amazing to see a real one. Its like someone read my mind.

CARVER - The most athletic car in the world

The News Corporation, making one of its largest bets on the Internet, announced today that it is paying $580 million in cash to acquire Intermix Media Inc., a Los Angeles-based company whose chief asset is MySpace.com, a Web site that is enjoying surging popularity with young audiences.

News Corporation to Acquire Intermix for $580 Million - New York Times

Last year, Mr. King was referred to Dr. Victor Aziz, a psychiatrist at St. Cadoc's Hospital in Wales. Dr. Aziz explained to him that there was a name for his experience: musical hallucinations.

Neuron Network Goes Awry, and Brain Becomes an IPod

] SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a
] simplified version. The real thing.

Oh Fuck.

Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken

] Login to a website in seconds versus minutes
]
] Create multiple identities ("personas")
]
] Control both the security and type of personal data (your
] "attributes") when logging into a website
]
] You decide a safe location ("Homesite") to store your
] personal data

When I have sat down and thought about how online identity should work I've imagined solutions that sound a lot like this. It will be interesting to see how this develops.

Sxip Networks - personal digital identity

] The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has
] announced its proposed policy to provide all dot-ca
] domain name holders with increased privacy safeguards,
] bringing it in line with recently-enacted Canadian
] privacy laws.

I applaud this. This is the right way to do this. Its interesting to note that it is required by federal legislation in Canada. In any event, could the person with the clue here please take a trip to L.A. and give it to ICANN? Please!?

CIRA Proposes New Standard for Domain Name Whois Privacy

] In a case that has spurred intense soul-searching in
] legal circles, a 25-year-old convicted drug dealer, who
] was arrested two years ago for selling small bags of
] marijuana to a police informant, was sentenced on Tuesday
] to 55 years in prison.

Is there no end to the idiocy!?

http://famm.org/
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-458es.html

Judge Questions Long Sentence in Drug Case

]
] ICANN confirmed today that Judge A. Howard Matz of the
] U.S. District Court, Central District of California has
] issued an order dismissing VeriSign, Inc.'s anti-trust
] claims against ICANN, with prejudice. In dismissing
] VeriSign's anti-trust claims, Judge Matz noted that
] VeriSign had failed in its first amended complaint to
] sufficiently allege an anti-trust claim.

Today is a good day!!

VeriSign's Anti-Trust Claim Against ICANN Dismissed

]
] Recently, the news that China is adopting IPv9 is making
] rounds on the Internet. While some of them write off as
] an April Fool's joke (in July?) like RFC 1606, others
] wonder if there is more than meets the eye. But most of
] them wonder what this IPv9 is and how does it actually
] work. And some of the English translated articles are so
] badly done that it is impossible to get any useful
] technical information except that 'It is developed and
] supported by Chinese government!'

Explaining China's IPv9

] Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, said the law would simply
] cut off a revenue stream for companies that are knowingly
] providing the tools to commit crimes.

Why is everyone screaming at Hatch? Hatch is a known IP industry tool. We should be screaming at Leahy. I'm so disappointed to see him backing something like this. He is usually computer literate. I used to think he was one of the few people in Congress whose positions I could trust. Unfortunately I'll have to view him with suspicion from now on. He has consorted with the devil.

Bill to Curb Online Piracy Is Challenged as Too Broad