Thursday, November 11, 2004

Very fine Veterans Day piece at Pipeline. Happy Veteran’s Day This one’s for my dad.  And yet, I don’t know that I want him to read it.  He never reads this site, so the only danger of it happening is that my mom will read it and tell him about it.  Your choice, mom.  10:42:21 PM    comment []

Korea: Spam Mail Senders to Be Fined Heavily, by Seo Jee-yeon, Korea Times. 10:42:10 PM    comment []

If a kid's diary is online, should mom peek?: In a click, an Internet journal could reveal a teen's world -- but lead to suspicion. 1:40:24 PM    comment []

The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines.  . . . This article originally appeared on openDemocracy.com. [Schneier on Security] 5:47:50 AM    comment []

E-mail crash kills messages. Thousands of e-mails were lost around midnight Nov. 8 when the faculty and staff e-mail server crashed without warning. Some professors and administrators lost all of their stored e-mail from professional colleagues and students, and are unable to retrieve the lost information. [The Journal] 5:47:01 AM    comment []

Still awaiting Microsoft's search entry. Despite hype of a full-fledged search engine release, company is only updating its "alpha" search site introduced in July. [CNET News.com] 5:43:23 AM    comment []

MPAA scare-ads removed by polite letter to mall Th0m sent a nice letter to the people who run his local mall in Dublin, Ohio, telling them that the big MPAA anti-piracy ads were offensive and got on his nerves, and they took 'em down! The ads are tantamount to a legal threat to the general public about their property, and they do it opposite advertisements for children's movies. My response is that I do not want them to do that in my community, in the public space where I'm trying to live. I am an artist too, and just because they have a problem with free downloads, doesn't mean they can give the impression that people in *my* community can't download my copyrighted works for free. It is not that I think that copyright infringement is justified. Rather, corporations are giving legitimate downloading and new internet-based media a bad name by claiming they are a victim of new technology. Link (Thanks, Th0m!) [bOing bOing] 5:42:00 AM    comment []

Show Time for Stem-Cell Science. It's time to get down to business for stem-cell scientists and administrators after the tremendous boost they received from the passage of California's Proposition 71. Two advisory board appointments have been made; there are 25 to go. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] 5:41:24 AM    comment []

Has TiVo Forsaken Us?. Sometime in the next few months, your machine will quietly download a patch that makes it respond to a new copy-protection scheme from software maker Macrovision. By Lucas Graves from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 5:41:17 AM    comment []

Election Day in Ohio: A First-Person Account from a Lawyer Helping the Democrats. A lawyer I know writes: I am an attorney from a safe Democratic state who went on a campaign trip to Ohio this election day. I wrote the following email for a list to which I contribute about my experiences... [Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates] 5:37:26 AM    comment []

Alex's Lemonade Stand Exceeds $1M Goal. On Foxnews: U.S. & World [NewsIsFree: Popular Items] 5:35:07 AM    comment []

Apple details plans to Spotlight desktop search. Recently posted document throws a little light on a key feature of the next edition of Mac OS X. [CNET News.com] 5:32:47 AM    comment []