] The Recording Industry Association of America said
] Wednesday it sent out subpoenas to Internet service
] providers prior to filing lawsuits against hundreds of
] individuals who illegally distribute songs over the Web.

Sigh...

Wired News: RIAA's Flurry of Subpoenas

] Their legislation, introduced Wednesday, would punish an
] Internet user who shares even a single file without
] permission from a copyright holder with prison terms of
] up to five years and fines of up to $250,000.

Totally asinine.

House proposal targets file swappers | CNET News.com

] The Columbia astronauts lived for almost a minute after
] their final communication with mission control, well
] after signs that the craft was in serious trouble,
] investigators at NASA and the Columbia Accident
] Investigation Board said yesterday.

IMHO, the shuttle system has become a case study of how not to do large scale engineering. We need to mothball the shuttle and build a new system ASAP...

Crew of Columbia Survived a Minute After Last Signal

] Biologists and demographers are greeting with
] considerable enthusiasm a new theory of aging that
] extends Hamilton's idea and explains the features it
] doesn't account for well. The new theory, proposed by Dr.
] Ronald Lee, a demographer at the University of California
] at Berkeley, was published in today's issue of The
] Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Why We Die, Why We Live: A New Theory on Aging

AOL has cut Mozilla loose. Not clear what AOL's motivation is; maybe cuddling up to M$, maybe just plain old cost cutting. Not obvious to me what this means for Mozilla. May be bad news in the short run since AOL was pumping a ton of cash into it...

mozilla.org

] Internet chat groups, particularly those using a format
] called Internet relay chat, or I.R.C., now play an
] important and growing role in online credit card fraud,
] according to a report released last week by a group of
] Internet security experts who form the Honeynet Project.
] The project sets up computer systems called honeynets
] that are intended to be easy to infiltrate in order to
] monitor and record how hackers work.

Pfffft.

Internet Chat Seen as Tool to Teach Theft of Credit Cards

] The estimate is given on the fourth page of an eight-page
] table, in the third chapter of an 11-chapter first volume
] of the environmental impact statement for the plant, the
] Modern Pit Facility. The Energy Department is considering
] building the plant to make smaller nuclear bombs and
] bombs to replace old ones that it says may become
] unreliable.

Sheesh ... they really seem to want to make more small bombs...

U.S. Predicts Cancer Deaths at Proposed Plutonium Plant

] In the age of the leak and the blog, of evidence
] extraction and link discovery, truths will either out or
] be outed, later if not sooner. This is something I would
] bring to the attention of every diplomat, politician and
] corporate leader: the future, eventually, will find you
] out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of
] transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you
] will be seen to have done that which you did.

William Gibson on Orwell.

NY Times | The Road to Oceania

How do they think this will possibly help them? The music industry seems to be trying to sell itself out for next quarter's numbers and is going to find in just a few more years that it is so widely reviled that noone will do business with them!

RE: Music labels to sue hundreds of music sharers

This just in: in a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court has reversed its 1986 decision and struck down Texas's anti-sodomy statute.