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Wednesday, July 23, 2003 |
Dave:
 Wired News has a beautiful new (beta) application for RSS. Give it a search term, and it returns articles that include the term. For example, this feed shows all the articles that contain my name; subscribe to it, and you'll be informed of anything new written about me on Wired News. We used to call this ego surfing, now I have an ego aggregator. Progress is amazing. As Steve Gillmor says, aggregators are the new desktop, RSS the format that ties together information flows. We call this information routing. Powerful stuff.
[Scripting News]
9:58:10 PM 
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Joel:
 Need a disposable email address so you can sign up for some web site, quick? You've already got one, at Paul Tyma's clever Mailinator. Just send an email to any address @mailinator.com. Your email address already exists. Get your email sent here, THEN come check mailinator. Your mail will be waiting.” More proof that great UI design is done by taking away, not adding things.
[Joel on Software]
9:55:53 PM
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Teachers cut off from email (AAP).
Teachers at Strathfield South High School in Sydney's
inner-west are to stop work for one hour during lunch today in protest
against what they have described as a paltry pay offer.
They had planned to email politicians during the stop-work to express their
anger and frustration, but NSW Teachers' Federation representative John
Poulios said that would not be possible.
The DET (Department of Education and Training) has advised the principal
that all computers should be switched off to prevent teachers from sending
emails to members of parliament during this time, Mr Poulios said.
2:39:59 PM
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Update on RIAA suits, via BNA News:
Schools Balk At RIAA's Subpoenas
Some US universities, citing procedural grounds, are
rejecting stepped up demands from the RIAA to hand over
names of alleged student file swappers. Boston College and
MIT said they are barred from immediately handing over the
names of students to the recording industry by the Family
Education Rights and Privacy Act, which requires
institutions to notify students before releasing any
personal data.
While The Targets Of Subpeonas Listed Online
The U.S. District Court, which has been handling the RIAA
subpeonas, provides a searchable service that allows
visitors to identify the actual subpeonas including user
names and the songs the RIAA says the users shared online.
EFF says its hopes to offer the same information online
shortly.
1:39:50 PM
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Here's more, following on
yesterday's report of the
Advanced Instant NT
Password Cracker.
- The
project home page includes
results of recent queries. (A lot of them are the same, because people are
just submitting the example hash from the submission page, rather than any
actual LanMan and NTHash of their own. A lot of examples on the page are
listed as "notfoundnotfound" meaning that they are not alphanumeric --
either they are real hashes of passwords with punctuation marks or the
like, or more probably they are made up rather than real hashes.)
- a paper explaining
Making a Faster Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Off, by Philippe Oechslin.
- the
LASEC for dummies page, which now features prominently press reports of
the Instant Password Cracker.
Testing uses a 1.4GB lookup table and one computer running an AMD 2500+
processor with 1.5GB RAM.
11:38:51 AM
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P2P hide-and-seek. BitTorrent technology, anointed by the tech-savvy as an answer to file swapping's network traffic jams, runs into legal and practical problems as it breaks into the mainstream. [CNET News.com]
7:24:09 AM
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Ben Kerschberg asked me to link to
Ben's written the book, PIERCING THE VEIL, which is a memoir about mental
health and suicide and related issues. He writes
I have pledged 100% of my royalties to charity, namely the
hospital to which I was admitted after my failed attempt.
I'll begin working on Book Two -- no more memoirs, ever -- in about six
weeks, when I'll be returning to Yale Law School on a two-year fellowship.
I plan to write about how American society stigmatizes mental
illness.
4:37:43 AM
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