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1:36 pm EDT, May 23, 2002 |
"Can you imagine having Stephen Jay Gould as a babysitter?" Gould's Serious Fun |
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S.F No. 2908, 3rd Engrossment |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
1:23 pm EDT, May 23, 2002 |
Minnesota has passed a very tough internet privacy law. In general it offers all the right things, but the ISP industry is protesting because they claim its too expensive to deal with different regulations in different states and want a federal law. S.F No. 2908, 3rd Engrossment |
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Lawmakers seek to purify Web records - Tech News - CNET.com |
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1:17 pm EDT, May 23, 2002 |
"People who provide false data when registering a domain name on the Web could be thrown into jail for up to five years, if a recently introduced bill becomes law. " Well, THATS a bad idea... Whois is a relic of the past. Why should you be forced to give up your telephone number to the world simply because you want to register a domain!! The proper way to investigate a host is to look the IP address up in ARIN's database and then contact the ISP it was assigned to. Lawmakers seek to purify Web records - Tech News - CNET.com |
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Salon.com Technology | Give it away now |
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| Topic: Economics |
1:15 pm EDT, May 23, 2002 |
"At FightCloud.com, the price is right. Scalfani sells CDs for free. That is, if you don't count the $4.95 "shipping" charge. Of course, that would be a mistake. Buried in the shipping charge is the secret ingredient: a modest profit. Less costs of $2.31, the company nets $2.64 on each "free" disc, half of which goes to the artist." Salon.com Technology | Give it away now |
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Music swapping firm to fold under weight of lawsuits |
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1:10 pm EDT, May 23, 2002 |
"The collapse of Kazaa, however, is not expected to slow trading activity on the company's network, one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world. Kazaa said it has sold the network to another firm that the music and film industry has not sued yet. The Web site and the software behind it are now owned by a privately held firm called Sharman Networks, based in Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific. " Kazza attempts to avoid lawsuits by reorganizing in a data haven. Music swapping firm to fold under weight of lawsuits |
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FBI Agents Indicted for Fraud Scheme |
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1:01 pm EDT, May 23, 2002 |
"Two FBI agents were among five people charged with securities fraud for allegedly participating in a scheme to feed confidential information to an Internet stock analyst." FBI Agents Indicted for Fraud Scheme |
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Wearable Computer Laboratory |
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11:42 pm EDT, May 22, 2002 |
Using the Tinmith system described earlier, the students at UNISA (in Australia) have been able to get Quake working as an Augmented Reality system on campus. Movement is controled by GPS positioning and firing is controled by a toy gun. Wearable Computer Laboratory |
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BookCrossing.com - Home - READ and RELEASE! |
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12:20 pm EDT, May 22, 2002 |
"The "3 Rs" of BookCrossing... * Read a good book (you already know how to do that)
* Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book
* Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in an airliner seatback pocket, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records journal entries for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it!" BookCrossing.com - Home - READ and RELEASE! |
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