We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on
our hidden web-sites and our show-case site GWEI.org.
With this money we automatically buy Google shares via
our Swiss e-banking account. We buy Google via their own
advertisment! Google eats itself
- but in the end we will own it!

Everyone needs a hobby.

GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself

bucy wrote:
Paul Vixie is involved with this ... I'm not sure what the point is.

Vixie explains his motivations here. The point is the demonstrate that the international community can resolve national security and national sovereignty concerns related to US control of ICANN without resorting to UN control of ICANN or fragmenting the DNS. Furthermore, as Canada has demonstrated with their privacy policies, national TLD's need not comply with ICANN regulations when they violate local laws. So there is no problem here with US control of ICANN unless other countries wish to use DNS to coerce people. More info here. Make sure you read Vixie's comment.

RE: European Open Root Server Network with IPv6 Support

Rattle has been asking for a tinyurl replacement that allows you to see what your going to be viewing before you get redirected to it, with a cookie based option for turning that feature off... Here it is...

Make A Shorter Link

TIM O'REILLY CREDITS NEW BOZO LOCATOR TECHNOLOGY FOR HELPING TO INSULT HIS TARGET MARKET: UNINVITED LONE WOLF ASPIRANTS.

This is perhaps the most beautiful and strange commentary on FooCamp that I have seen.

BetterBadNews: Foo!

Rattle wrote:
Don't miss that privacy policy link. Think of what Google could do.

Security is Surveillance.
Privacy is Publicity.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Google is Good.

RE: Google Secure Access: Frequently Asked Questions

The satellites are tiny--they weigh a kilogram and generally measure about 10 centimeters on each side--but they cost far less than conventional commercial satellites. A CubeSat unit costs roughly $40,000 to build and only $40,000 to launch. As part of the program, Cal Poly takes care of the bureaucratic and logistical hurdles.
Satellite photos

By contrast, a conventional satellite can run between $150 million and $250 million to build and $100 million to launch.

"I kind of look at this as the Apple II. The ordinary person can get something into space," said Bob Twiggs, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford and one of the principals behind CubeSat. "We don't know what the ultimate use is, but look what happened to the Internet."

DIY satellites reinvent the space race | CNET News.com

"When we say 'controllable,' it means it's like a car; you can steer it anywhere on a flat surface, and drive it wherever you want to go. It doesn't drive on wheels, but crawls like a silicon inchworm, making tens of thousands of 10-nanometer steps every second. It turns by putting a silicon 'foot' out and pivoting like a motorcyclist skidding around a tight turn."

Still too big to put inside a person. Anyone got an application idea for this thing? Note whose funding the research...

Dartmouth News - Dartmouth researchers build world's smallest mobile robot - 09/14/05

Few virus writers now want to hit the front pages, said Mr Hypponen, most prefer to have their creations sneak under the radar, rack up a few thousand unwitting victims who are then milked for money or saleable data.

It appears that Mr Essebar was intending to make money several different ways from the people caught out by the Mytob and Zotob viruses he is alleged to have created.

It seems we are entering a new era of organized crime online. Viruses are no longer the product of kiddies trying to prove they are capable of doing damage. Instead viruses have become a tool of spammers and adware installers.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Money motive drove virus suspects

In a decision with dangerous implications for competition, consumer choice, reverse engineering, and innovation, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled against three software programmers who created a free, open-source program to allow gamers to play games they purchased with others on the platform of their choice. The court held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibited the reverse engineering needed to create the program and that "click-wrap" and "browse-wrap" licenses are enforceable to prevent reverse engineering.

This is bad. Naked Emperors.

EFF: DMCA/Click Wrap Anti-Reverse Engineering upheld

Identifying falsified images can be straightforward if you know a few tricks.

I'm pretty good at telling fake images, but this info is interesting...

oe magazine - photofakery