Saturday, November 01, 2003

U.K. Plans to Extradite Spammers. Calling the flood of junk e-mail a criminal threat rather than a mere irritant, British lawmakers hatch a plan to bring overseas bulk e-mailers to trial. [Wired News] 4:16:54 PM    comment []

China Locks Up Net Dissident. Chinese security agents have detained civil servant Du Daobin, whose essays are banned by Beijing on the Internet, for 'subverting state power.' It's all part of China's intensified crackdown on online dissent. [Wired News] 11:21:32 AM    comment []

Update on the letter from Dan Goldin concerning the Boston University Presidency about which he and the Trustees had agreed contractually: Boston U. Pays Its New President Just to Go Away. Just one day before he was to take over, Daniel S. Goldin, the former NASA administrator, agreed to walk away from the post for a reported payment of $1.8 million. By Sara Rimer. [New York Times: Education] 8:04:57 AM    comment []

DMCA exemptions humor from the Register of Copyrights. From deep, deep, down in the Register's recommendation for DMCA exemptions, presented for your amusement: A few commenters submitted comments relating to source code or data file formats. These comments, however, were at times more difficult to decipher than encryption... [Infothought] 7:59:45 AM    comment []