FCC has voted 4-1 to allow companies to lease/trade frequencies.
There was a 40-year old requirement that license holders physically
control all of their infrastructure that prevented this in the past.

I'm not sure whether or not I think this is a good thing; the licensing system in this country is pretty broken IMO.

U.S. Moves to Allow Trading of Radio Spectrum Licenses

] In February, the Feds seized the domain from David
] "krazy8" Rocci, a 22-year-old in Blacksburg, VA, who used
] the site to sell 450 Enigmah mod chips. After facing
] $500,000 in fines and five years in prison for allegedly
] violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Rocci was
] sentenced in April to spend five months in the slammer
] and pay $28,500 in fines. That's an unprecedented ruling
] in the brief history of the DMCA. And it shows how this
] quirky gray market hardware is leaving so many companies
] and federal agents running scared.

Not really news at this point but anyway ...

Game Over for Mod Chips?

] NEW YORK -- The man known as the "Buffalo Spammer," who
] allegedly has sent 825 million unwanted e-mails, has been
] arrested and arraigned, New York State Attorney General
] Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.

I'm somewhat wary of spam legislation but there's no question that it has become a colossal problem. At least 50% of the mail volume to my work mailbox is spam.

I think the fraud-oriented legislation is probably preferable to having the government define what spam is; spoofing mail headers, abusing other peoples' mail servers, etc, would be what the spammers might be prosecuted for. "Legitimate" spammers would have to have their own servers, not spoof and provide a real opt-out system. They'd probably also have a hard time getting connectivity.

Wired News: Fraud Bust for 'Buffalo Spammer'

] But not everyone likes the switch to electronic
] balloting. Some of the loudest opposition, in fact, is
] coming from computer experts who say the new technology
] could prove more troublesome than its predecessors. They
] warn of equipment malfunction, unchecked tampering and
] the lack of secure proof for each vote.

To Register Doubts, Press Here

] Last summer, Orlando Ayala, then in charge of worldwide
] sales at Microsoft, sent an e-mail message titled
] Microsoft Confidential to senior managers laying out a
] company strategy to dissuade governments across the globe
] from choosing cheaper alternatives to the ubiquitous
] Windows computer software systems.
]
] Mr. Ayala's message told executives that if a deal
] involving governments or large institutions looked
] doomed, they were authorized to draw from a special fund
] to offer the software at a steep discount or even free if
] necessary. Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief
] executive, was sent a copy of the e-mail message.

Dumping by any other name...

How Microsoft Warded Off Rival

] McWane Inc., a major manufacturer of cast-iron pipes and
] one of the nation's most persistent violators of
] workplace safety and environmental laws, is the target of
] a federal criminal investigation, according to law
] enforcement officials and current and former employees
] who have been questioned in the inquiry.

Someone blogged this a few months ago ... looks like the feds are starting to take interest in the case.

Criminal Inquiry Under Way at Large Pipe Manufacturer

] Commercial users and distributors of the Linux operating
] system could face legal action from the key patent holder
] of Unix, which said Wednesday it will suspend sales of
] its own Linux products.
]
] SCO Group, formerly known as Caldera International,
] claims its intellectual property has been illegally
] included in all distributions of the Linux operating
] system.

This is soooooo stupid. SCO is basically begging for IBM to
buy them. It really is time for SCO to go away...

Wired News: Unix Developer Stops Linux Sales

] Diagnoses of autism have nearly doubled in the last four
] years among children in California, state officials
] reported yesterday. They said they could not explain the
] increase.

Wired had a thing about this awhile ago ... all the hackers must
be breeding, finally.

Autism Diagnoses Double in California

] On May 1, Stephen L. Joseph, a San Francisco lawyer,
] filed a suit in Marin County Superior Court against Kraft
] Foods, the maker of Oreos, seeking to ban the cookies in
] California because they contain trans fats, which exist
] in hydrogenated oil. That oil is found in 40 percent of
] prepared foods, including most cookies, crackers and
] microwave popcorn, according to the United States
] Department of Agriculture.

In 30 years, the obesity epidemic in this country may well look like smoking does today -- like a major public health problem. Nevertheless,this is pretty silly. People need to be responsible for the consequences of their choices at some point

A Suit Seeks to Bar Oreos as a Health Risk

] In two papers presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security
] and Privacy here, the graduate students suggested simple
] modifications to network software that could defeat
] denial-of-service attacks and that could be implemented
] in the current protocol used by the Internet. The
] symposium, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and
] Electronics Engineers, began Sunday and lasts through
] Wednesday.

I know these people ...

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