Thursday, July 22, 2004

Gerard is following the US CARRIER DEPLOYMENT SURGE, and askin Is the Deployment Surge Just an Exercise?. (See also Summer Pulse '04, or, as Gerard notes, To track you'll have to Google Summer Pulse and Majestic Eagle.) 5:42:04 PM    comment []

TIPS FOR EFFICIENT WEB SEARCHING from Eszter. 1:41:09 PM    comment []

Explanations of current and future technologies, from Public Knowledge, including Copyrights and Wrongs -- Damming the Flow of 'Free' Information, Hand-Held Device For DVD Movies Raises Legal Issues, SACD, DVD-A, DVD, Mesh Network, MP3, and WiFi. 7:39:18 AM    comment []

Four years ago in my weblogging Toysmart can sell its database, but the FTC is making some stab at protecting privacy, all the same. E-Mail Sniffing Program's Bark Worse Than Its Bite, FBI Says You may have read that Stephen King will be selling his next novel online, a chapter at a time. The plan is to post the first chapter, and only to post the second if seventy-five percent of those who download the first send a dollar to King. The first chapter would be pulled after the third is posted, or something like that. Now comes news that amazon.com will handle the payments for King, although he declined to make the 'co-publishers.' Kevin Poulson's report on the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference notes striking differences from former versions of the event--most notably an upsurge in 'hacktivism,' and discussions of things like the WTO 'Battle in Seattle' by attendees such as former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra. 4:38:50 AM    comment []