] It's time for a solution to the P2P conflict that pays
] artists, not lawyers. S. 2560 isn't only a profound
] threat to innovation, it's yet another step in the wrong
] direction.

The EFF's Statuatory Licensing proposal is far from outrageous.

EFF: EFF's Letter to United States Senators

] TOKYO (AP) -- After decades of evading the public eye and
] U.S. justice officials, former world champion Bobby
] Fischer -- possibly the best and certainly the most
] eccentric chess player ever -- has been taken into
] custody by Japanese immigration after allegedly trying to
] leave the country with an invalid passport.

Search for Former Chess Champion Ends at Tokyo Airport

] Inventors usually try to come up with things that will
] change people's lives. But Robert Barrows is hoping to
] make an impact after their death. He is patenting
] video-equipped tombstones to let cemetery visitors watch
] messages from the dead.

High-tech messages from the grave

tina wrote:
] ] By selecting Edwards, Kerry went with the smooth-talking
] ] Southern populist over more seasoned politicians in hopes
] ] of injecting vigor and small-town appeal to the
] ] Democratic presidential ticket.
]
] Totally works for me. I fall for the hot young populsits every
] damn time.

The gamble here is that Edwards will help pick up votes
in rural America, esp the South. Whatever you think of Cheny,
he is certainly a skilled and experienced politician -- probably
more so than Edwards.

RE: Kerry Picks Edwards!

] Standard SMTP email is anonymous and forgeable.
]
] SPF closes this loophole. SFP is primarily an
] anti-forgery effort. Any benefits in the area of reduced
] spam, worms, viruses, etc are pleasant side-effects. That
] said, if SPF causes spammers to send mail from their own
] domains, we'll be better able to identify and block those
] domains.

Another flavor of sender-authentication. This is a superset of
both Reverse MX and the Designated Mailer Protocol. This is pretty
easy to deploy both sender and receiver side.

SMTP Sender Policy Framework

] Has the entire Goddamn universe become snared by the
] siren song of City of Heroes? Everywhere I look, monitors
] glow with bobbing superhero ass. I played it, and it was
] great at what it did - Diablo plus Unprecedented
] Character Creation. I declared it inoffensive and moved
] on. And now, I'd say eighty percent of my friends can't
] pry themselves from that superteat.

Tycho on City of Heroes

Decius wrote:
] ] By an 8-0 vote, the justices overturned a controversial
] ] decision by a U.S. appeals court in California that
] ] reciting the phrase amounted to a violation of
] ] church-state separation.
] ]
] ] The ruling by the justices was based on the technicality
] ] that Newdow could not bring the case before the court
] ] because he did not have legal control over his daughter,
] ] on whose behalf he was arguing.
]
] Bullet dodged...

"Good answer!"

RE: Supreme Court Decides Pledge Case on Technicality

flynn23 wrote:
] ] Its justification for existence was weak 70 years ago,
] ] but advances in technology since then have eliminated
] ] whatever arguments remained. Central planning didn't work
] ] for the Soviet Union, and it's not working for us. The
] ] FCC is now an agency that does more harm than good.

I halfway agree with this article. I strongly reject the notion that spectrum should be owned outright like land. I think software
defined radio may be the way ... all of the devices in a given
area can collectively divide up the spectrum. Given the
entrenched FCC licencees, I'm afraid its a pipe dream, though.

RE: Why the FCC should die

] per capita income in the period prior to
] the late 1950s was right around number three in the
] world, behind the United States and Canada. But by 1984,
] its per capita income had sunk to 27th in the world,
] alongside Portugal and Turkey. Not only that, but our
] unemployment rate was 11.6 percent, we’d had 23
] successive years of deficits (sometimes ranging as high
] as 40 percent of GDP), our debt had grown to 65 percent
] of GDP, and our credit ratings were continually being
] downgraded. Government spending was a full 44 percent of
] GDP, investment capital was exiting in huge quantities,
] and government controls and micromanagement were
] pervasive at every level of the economy. We had foreign
] exchange controls that meant I couldn’t buy a
] subscription to The Economist magazine without the
] permission of the Minister of Finance. I couldn’t buy
] shares in a foreign company without surrendering my
] citizenship. There were price controls on all goods and
] services, on all shops and on all service industries.
] There were wage controls and wage freezes. I couldn’t pay
] my employees more – or pay them bonuses – if I wanted to.
] There were import controls on the goods that I could
] bring into the country. There were massive levels of
] subsidies on industries in order to keep them viable.
] Young people were leaving in droves.

Lessons from New Zealand.

Rolling Back Government

] Linus Torvalds, the undisputed - except by the Alexis de
] Tocqueville Institute - inventor of Linux, has let
] LinuxWorld have his immediate comment on the AdTI
] president's claims that the parentage of Linux is somehow
] in doubt. Read his startling admission exclusively here:
] Linux is in reality the handiwork of the Tooth Fairy and
] Santa Claus.

Linus Discloses *Real* Fathers of Linux