] Both bills would flatly ban the possession, sale, or use
] of technologies that "conceal from a communication
] service provider ... the existence or place of origin or
] destination of any communication".

Decius:
] OK, who knows who in TN. This is a huge mistake and it
] needs to be combated. Anyone know Donna Hoffman? Can we
] get a copy of this thing?

NAT would be illegal?! Truly insane.

Yes, that must be stopped.

Law in TN MUST be defeated

] In the photo above is the webACE: a Fairchild ACE1101MT8
] microcontroller programmed as a Web server and containing
] two tiny web pages in its on-chip memory. Since the
] ACE1101MT8 is the smallest available microcontroller, I
] believe that this really is the World's Smallest Web
] Server.

This is the platform used in that fly article. This article is a little more informative. I don't really care about the fly. I care about the server. Links to a number of other more practical platforms such as PIC based servers (they are technically larger, but basically the idea is the same). A little digging and you'll find a number of open source TCP/IP stacks for microcontrollers.

This is of use if you want to embed internet connectivity into extremely small devices. The next question is how small can you make your bluetooth transmitter.

Tiny webserver, without the fly

For "Net-genners," Microsoft learned that using the Internet for socializing is a way of life.

Microsoft aims to tap 'Net generation' | CNET News.com

] "What we're seeing now is the weaving of electronic
] warfare, psyops and other information warfare through
] every facet of the plan from our peacetime preparations
] through execution," said Maj. Gen. Paul J. Lebras, chief
] of the Joint Information Operations Center, a secretive
] military agency based in Texas that has sent a team of
] experts to join the Central Command info-warfare team for
] the Iraq campaign....

] "We are trying very hard to be empathetic with the Iraqi
] military," said a senior American information warfare
] official. "We understand their situation. The same for
] the Iraqi population. We wish them no harm. We will take
] great pains to make those people understand that they
] should stay away from military equipment."

Firing Memes, US Wages Information War

"I'm Steve, and I'm a Supervillain..."

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] "Arnold Kling, in his article, Content is Crap, writes,
] 'While there are many Net-heads who share Dan Gillmor's
] [and Larry Lessig's] enthusiasm for Creative Commons, I
] do not. It has little or no significance, because it is
] based on a strikingly naive 60's-retro ideological view
] of how content intermediaries function.'

I recommend this for two reasons. First, and a minor observation, here Slashdot attempts to assemble a thread between a number of bloggers. If all of these people were using MemeStreams, the thread would already be organized and would be much easier to follow. :)

Second, Kling is wrong for all the right reasons. He argues that the Creative Commons License is useless because its simply a way to end run around the publishing industry, and the publishing industry is very important as a filter for the the mass of information available to us. However, and it is probably well understood by the readers of this site, the publishing industry is not a very good filter. They don't find the content we really want, because its too risky or too expensive or because it threatens them in some fundamental way.

We need to put the power to filter in the hands of the people, as we have put the power to elect a government in the hands of the people, and for exactly the same reasons.

And with the power to filter in the hands of the people there is a need, a requirement, for looser copyright restrictions. Artificial Scarcity, in this environment, it what prevents people from getting a hold of your ideas, not the thing that incents you to make those ideas available. And for this reason I think systems like Creative Commons may be quite important.

You're not selling artifically scarce "copy" for cash. You are giving copy away for reputation. Reputation is attention, and you can turn attention in cash.

Slashdot | Carping Over Creative Commons

] "GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will
] allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given
] location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web
] page of the restaurants near you."

This site is slashdoted to hell, but I think that ultimately this sort of thing will be extremely important. Espeically with respect to mobile devices. You will want to be able to attach a blog entry to a geographic location, and the reputation system will find blog entries of interest to you as you walk around town... This will allow you to share information about businesses in the area, history, etc...

GeoURL ICBM Address Server

] "In his experiment, Potter places a droplet of solution
] containing thousands of rat neuron cells onto a silicon
] chip that's embedded with 60 electrodes connected to an
] amplifier. The electrical signals that the cells fire at
] one another are picked up by the electrodes which then
] send the amplified signal into a computer. The computer,
] in turn, wirelessly relays the data to the robot.

Yes, you read that correctly.

This is good. Bio/computer integration is progressing at an acceptable rate. If things go according to my great plan, when my body is too frail to continue living, I will be able to implant my brain into a giant robot body with photon blasters and shit. Kind of like RoboCop, only not lame. I'm not thining human profile here. Being able to fly would be good, but not with some dorky jetpack like at the end of RoboCop 3, that was st00pid. Maybe like a transformer or something. Yeah.. And don't worry, none of that shit that happened at the beginning of RoboCop 2 would be an issue.. I will be _happy_ as a giant robot. I will roam the streets of America fighting corrupt corporations. And help old ladies cross the street and shit. Really.. I can code, so I will be able to preform improvments on myself. I can see this working out..

Technology Review - Rat-Brained Robot

(3) the social environment in which thoughts originate and evolve, and mindsets develop.

MemeStreams is not Yet Another Web Site.

Beyond 'Couch Potatoes' | First Monday

this is elonka's talk on steganography from phreaknic. elonka is a bad ass cypher freak. the slides are well worth 15 minutes of your time. some reasonable thought about the likelyhood that al-q actually used stegaNography in images tO conceal Their plans for 911. jonnyx's goggled face offers clear evidence that universities that have searched for stego on the web and not found it simply have not tried hard enough. the reader is left to ponder the possible.

Rattle: I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for inadvertently distrupting Elonka's panel. There was a little stir when several people realized that I had hijacked the wireless network as I was watching Elonka speak.

Elonka.Com - Steganography