Friday, February 21, 2003

Dave: Twice in the last two days I've heard people say that Manila costs $900. Yes it's true, if you want to operate your own server, you can license Manila for $899 and host 1000 sites on that server, making the cost approx $1 per site. If you're not interested in 1000 sites, you can get Manila hosting from weblogger.com for $9.95 per month per site. They even do template design and static rendering. Compare this against hosting options for any other easy to use content management system. I think you'll find it's quite competitive. Let's compare apples to apples. Smart informed experts should be armed with all the info. [Scripting News] 4:07:28 PM    comment []

'Honest Thief' confronts music industry. Dutch company PGR says it "will become to file sharing what the Swiss are to banking." It's the latest threat to the entertainment and recording industry. [CNET News.com] 4:06:30 PM    comment []

Week in review: Flagging the pirates. If copyright pirates are starting to feel a little paranoid, it's because tech companies and the entertainment industry are working hard to catch them. [CNET News.com] 4:03:37 PM    comment []

Bookseller purges files to avoid potential 'Patriot Act' searches (AP). Bear Pond Books in Montpelier will purge purchase records for customers if they ask, and it has already dumped the names of books bought by its readers' club. When the CIA comes and asks what you've read because they're suspicious of you, we can't tell them because we don't have it, store co-owner Michael Katzenberg said. That's just a basic right, to be able to read what you want without fear that somebody is looking over your shoulder to see what you're reading. 12:57:33 PM    comment []

Good news on the Community Technology Centers Program and the Technology Opportunity Program. Civil Rights Coalition Applauds Preservation of Funding for Federal Community Technology Programs: Urges Continued Bipartisan Support for Ongoing Federal Leadership to Bridge Digital Divide (press release). 12:57:30 PM    comment []

U. of Michigan Draws a New Type of Recruit. As president of the University of Michigan, Lee Bollinger reached out to colleges and businesses to gain their support as the school faced attacks on its admissions policies. By Diana Jean Schemo. [New York Times: Education] 6:49:36 AM    comment []

What’s in a millisecond? From t'other blog a year ago and featuring: Of Time and the Luger: As Olympic timing gets atomically precise, the U.S.’s top timekeeper asks, ‘what’s in a millisecond?’ The Enron Voice Mail System, 2002. (I think this is a joke.) Coverage of U.S. Copyright Office proposal on Webcasting Rates Non-US'n news Iran nets another revolt: The Iranian government may be draconian, but the internet remains uncensored. New restrictions loom for Malaysia's Internet Thailand to impose curfew on Internet cafes Privacy Peeking Over Your Shoulder: Using inexpensive software, more than half of the world's largest firms keep tabs on workers' Internet use. Microsoft Player Logs User Info And the rest Why blacks love Bill Clinton Research Power vs. Hacker Potential: 'Distributed' Projects Raise Security Issues http://www.fightaidsathome.org/ http://members.ud.com/projects/cancer/index.htm http://www.distributed.net/rc5 http://www.distributed.net/ogr/ http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ 'SURVIVOR' 'SCREW-UP' COSTS CBS $200G, MTV's 'Real World' begins filming for 12th season Right-Wing Myths Exposed (a work in progress) Sylvan Learning Acquires a Controlling Interest in Walden U. for $8-Million Dot-Com Halo: The Rise and Fall of Michael Saylor An Estimate of the Type, Quantity, and Value of Munitions Dropped on Afghanistan, October 7 - December 10, 2001 (If you're a bottom-line kind of a reader, I'll clue you: TOTAL: $285,611,722.) 4:56:12 AM    comment []

At the University of Melbourne: Recording firms ask to scan university computers, by Leonie Lamont, The Sydney Morning Herald. Counsel for the companies, Mr Tony Bannon SC, said industry studies of piracy had found public institutions such as universities and libraries were the biggest repositories of unlawful sound recordings. . . . One of the student's web pages had a list of his top 15 songs, with the following invitation: These are my favourites and here are the links to my MP3 file. Justice Brian Tamberlin asked: Where did he get them from? Mr Bannon: I don't know. Where are they stored? asked the judge. That's another thing we don't know, was the reply. Mr Bannon argued the companies should have access to email accounts, as evidence of an email with an MP3 attachment would prove that copying and transmission had occurred. He said one of the students had 500 MP3 files. Mr Bret Walker, SC, for the University of Melbourne, told Justice Tamberlin that the present proceedings were punitive, and the university opposed everything in principal. 2:55:53 AM    comment []