Hezbollah's campaign is a clear sign of how the democratization of missile technology -- cruise missile technology, in particular -- is reshaping global realities.

"We are trying to wage war as if it still mattered that our forces are comprised of ‘the few and the large' -- a few large heavy divisions, a few large aircraft carrier battle groups -- when in fact war is migrating into the hands of the many and the small -- little distributed units. We live in an era when technology has expanded the destructive power of a small group and the individual beyond our imaginations."

The Lebanon War and the democratization of missile technology

There's a website to analyze and duscuss particular AOL users: http://aol.zanoza.lv

"My neighbour is killing cats": http://aol.zanoza.lv/user/723190
"ways to kill yourself": http://aol.zanoza.lv/user/9486162
"wife killer": http://aol.zanoza.lv/user/17556639

A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749: http://aol.zanoza.lv/user/4417749

(Some good links here courtesy of maxevil. This is the best AOL data interface that I've seen yet, by far.)

RE: AOL Search Database

This font pkg makes ansi fonts work in the terminal.app of osx. Hello my name is timball and I'm addicted to irc.

Put the ASCII.ttf into /Library/Fonts/ then in the terminal.app:

Terminal - Window Settings...
[Display]
Set Font...
All Fonts - New - Regular - 11pt

Set as default if you want it that way... I know I do.

--timball

Decius: Thank You! If someone had done this, say, 20 years ago macs might have actually been useful for BBSing and apple might have been in a better place in the market.

ASCII Font

"This was a screw up, and we're angry and upset about it," AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein said. "It was an innocent enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant."

AOL: Searches by 650K People Got Out

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) and Apple® today announced that hit programming from CNN, Adult Swim and Cartoon Network is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes® Music Store (www.itunes.com). The new content features such favorites as Cartoon Network’s “Johnny Bravo,” Adult Swim’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” and original episodes of the award-winning documentary series “CNN Presents,” all available for viewing on a computer or iPod®.

At $2 a show is this reasonable? Yes, actually, I think it is. If I add up the cost of my Tivo subscription and full cable, and divide by two, I think the resulting number is higher then the amount of television I watch a month. As more programs get added to this thing, I can just pay per view whenever I'm bored and I want to watch something. Television, for me, is now dead. I might miss it on days when, like, airplanes have hit the world trade center, but I'll bet I'll find other ways to get the information I want.

Only real thing that I'm waiting on is MTV. I want my MTV. Not bullshit MTV with the Real World and all that crap. The old MTV. With music videos all the time, and the occaisonal extremely strange animated feature. Maybe what I really want is MuchMusic. Whatever. I want it to just stream to me all the time. I don't want to pay per click or choose things from a menu, and I don't want to have to install a satellite system in order to watch it. Where is my MTV? Why is there no market for this? Kids these days. God!

New TBS, Inc. Network Programming from CNN, Adult Swim & Cartoon Network Now Available on the iTunes Music Store

Catonic posted about this but he linked the main BarCamp site, which I had already memed. If they find a location this could be fairly cool, but so far the talk list is a little blah. Perhaps we should have a hacker contingent show up and spice things up a bit. It might also be cool in incorporate some amateur rocketry people, given the location.

BarCamp / BarCampBirmingham

Rambam was arrested this afternoon by FBI agents just moments before he was to lead a panel discussion on privacy here at the HOPE hacker conference in New York City.

Slashdot | Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE

Windows XP ships with system sounds that were created with a cracked version of Sony's SoundForge program -- and the sounds contain a thank-you screen acknowledging the warez dood who cracked the Sony program.

blahahaha

Boing Boing: Windows XP sounds created with warez

"I once asked Ivan, 'How is it possible for you to have invented computer graphics, done the first object oriented software system and the first real time constraint solver all by yourself in one year?" And he said "I didn't know it was hard."
-- Alan Kay on Ivan Sutherland.

Lisa Rein's Tour Of Alan Kay's Etech 2003 Presentation

Silicon Valley guru Bill Joy has a message: limit access to information and technologies that could put unprecedented power into the hands of malign individuals

Anyone got access to this?

New Scientist Premium- Interview: Bill Joy is still at it.