] No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call
] Registry will stop most, but not all, telemarketing
] calls. Some businesses are exempt from the national
] registry and still can call you even if you place your
] number on it. Exempt businesses include:
]
] * long-distance phone companies
] * airlines
] * banks and credit unions; and
] * the business of insurance, to the extent that it is
] regulated by state law.
]
] However, many telemarketing calls are placed by
] professional telemarketing companies, and even if the
] company whose goods or services are being sold is exempt,
] the telemarketing company may be covered.
]
] You may still receive calls from political organizations,
] charities, telephone surveyors or companies with which
] you have an existing business relationship.

Hrm. See, I got fairly excited about this thing... Then, after being woken up at 9 AM on Saturday Morning by the F.O.P., I decided to really look at it. Turns out, its basically useless. MOST of the telemarketing calls I receive are:

1. Surveys.
2. Charities.
3. Long Distance Services.
4. Credit Services.

All of these things are exempt. Thank you government, for yet again appearing to do something without doing anything at all.

- Decius

National Do Not Call Registry: Not all its cracked up to be

] At the urging of the Wi-Fi Alliance, the trade group that
] actively promotes Wi-Fi and other 802.11 technologies,
] the FCC is seeking public comment about whether it should
] change the rules to allot an additional 255 MHz of
] spectrum for unlicensed use to the wireless industry.
] (Unlicensed use means that the wireless industry would
] not need to purchase a license the way cellular carriers
] are required to do in order to sell wireless Internet
] service to customers.)

] The change in rules would increase the availability of
] airwaves for wireless broadband by 80 percent.

Wired News: FCC: More Spectrum for Wireless?

More unlicenced spectrum or bust!

] Ensure that the Internet continues to provide an open
] platform for innovation: The Internet is different from
] the phone network and radio and broadcast television in
] important ways. It is easier for individuals and small
] organizations to be producers as well as consumers of
] information. The Internet allows for “many to many”
] communication as opposed to the “one to many”
] communication of broadcast television. Innovation can
] occur at the edge of the network. A student, an
] independent software developer, or a small high-tech
] company can come up with an idea for a new application,
] protocol, or kind of content. If enough people find it
] useful or worthwhile, this idea can spread like wildfire.
] Even as the Internet evolves, it important to ensure that
] it continues to provide an open platform for rapid and
] decentralized innovation, and for the exchange of ideas.

Will IP issues get some focus in the political retoric of the somewhat near future? We could use some IP clue in The Senate.. If issues of technology and innovation find they way into poltical retoric, I could picture serious discussion about IP issues following.

I still have a lot of lingering anger over Eldred. And then there are things like the recent SCO fiasco.. And the lumbering media giants who want to own all the infrastructure and content sources.. In general, I fear for the public domain. We have hit this point with our computer technology where we are building technology off other technology, off other technology, etc.. In order to work together, its necessary to place what I call "infrastructure level" technology (OSs, librarys, critical apps, etc) into the public domain. OSS. Its not a hippy-happy-love thing, its pratical. It create an environment ripe for innovation with a very low barrier of entry. It create opportunities for innovation to happen in everywhere from academia, to the corporate world, to the hacker in the garage. Its what we need if we are to live up to the promise of the information age.. I do, honestly, and seriously, fear that the powers that gain their wealth through control, and not innovation, are going to get the upper hand.. And this truly wonderful thing we have happening could be stopped dead in its tracks.. Keep in mind, this is still the beginning.. The Internet "happened" in 1995. It can't be allowed to be killed in its youth. Same think with OSS. That "happned" about the same time. This is all young stuff.

I eagerly hope for more focus on these issues. I guess, this is a good start. "Many to many".. Time to start connecting the dots.

Leiberman's technology plan

] All funds WILL be used to provide counsel to those in
] need of it (where interz0ne may be involved).
]
] Mail funds to:
] Legal Defense Fund
] c/o Interz0ne
] PO Box 420754
] Atlanta, GA 30342
]
] Please make your checks payable to "Interz0ne Legal
] Defense Fund". Any and all amounts will be greatly
] appreciated, and properly used!

If you have some spare liquid capitol, support these folks. I know all the senior Interz0ne staff, they are trustworthy, and this will be used to protect the speech freedoms of those who are associated with the convention.. Currently, its going to be focused on the Blackboard case involving Billy Hoffman and Virgil Griffith.

I'm assuming a Paypal method of donating to the fund will be setup soon. I will inform you all when that time comes..

Interz0ne Legal Defense Fund Started

] He had turned to God at the age of 40 as a way of kicking
] alcoholism, and his faith had kept him on the straight
] and narrow ever since, giving him the drive to reach the
] White House.
]
] But all that changed on the day of the attacks on the
] Pentagon and World Trade Center.
]
] Those close to Mr Bush say that day he discovered his
] life's mission.
]
] He became convinced that God was calling him to engage
] the forces of evil in battle, and this one time
] baseball-team owner from Texas did not shrink from the
] task.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush puts God on his side

This is a complete Super-DMCA page with the text of the laws in various states and detailed information. Who can fight this in Tennessee??

Freedom to Tinker: Status of State Super-DMCA Bills

] But the real success story is the Contras, or rather
] their modern successor: al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden's crew
] is a band of government-funded anticommunist
] counterrevolutionaries who grew up and cut the apron
] strings. These new-model Contras don't need state support
] from Washington, Moscow, or any Accessory of Evil. Like
] Project Democracy, they've got independent financing: oil
] money, charity money, arms money, and a collection plate
] wherever a junkie shoots up in an alley. Instead of
] merely ignoring and subverting governments for a higher
] cause, as Poindexter did, al Qaeda tries to destroy them
] outright. Suicide bombers blew the Chechnyan provisional
] puppet government sky high. Cars packed with explosives
] nearly leveled the Indian Parliament. We all know what
] happened to the Pentagon.
]
] The next Iran-Contra is waiting, because the
] contradictions that created the first have never been
] resolved. Iran-Contra wasn't about eager American
] intelligence networks spreading dirty money in distant
] lands; it was about the gap between old, legitimate,
] land-based governments ruled by voters and the new,
] stateless, globalized predation. The next scandal will
] erupt when someone as molten, self-righteous, and
] frustrated as John Poindexter uses stateless power for
] domestic advantage. That's the breaking point in American
] politics: not when you call in the plumbers, but when you
] turn them loose on the opposition party. Then the Empire
] roils in a lather of sudden, indignant fury and strikes
] back against its own.

Wired 11.04: The Secret War Machine (Bruce Sterling)

] U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had this to say
] on Tuesday: "The Constitution just sets minimums ... Most
] of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the
] Constitution requires." According to Scalia, during
] wartime, "the protections will be ratcheted right down to
] the constitutional minimum."

] The next day Justice Scalia received a "Citadel of Free
] Speech" award from the Cleveland City Club. The camera-shy
] justice banned broadcast media from recording his remarks
] at the award ceremony, leading a C-SPAN vice president to
] write the City Club, commenting that the ban "begs
] disbelief and seems to be in conflict with the award
] itself. ... How free is speech if there are limits to its
] distribution?"

Justice Scalia says rights excessive, can be scaled down in wartime

] President Bush on Tuesday signed legislation creating a
] national "do-not-call" list intended to help consumers
] block unwanted telemarketing calls.

CBS News | 'Do Not Call' Is Law | March 11, 2003 14:49:40