Wednesday, December 18, 2002

Consume not, lest ye be consumed

Just so you don't feel alone being mislabeled as a consumer.

Be confused. Be very confused.

Here's a speech by an FCC commissioner. Not sure whether to be creeped out by it or not. "Definitional issues" and the like have me equally bored and curious.

More on DMCA blogging

Here's an email list.

Here's a pointer to several candidates.

Net to Pentagon: Find a real problem

John Markoff in the NY Times: Limits sought on Wireless Internet Access:

The Defense Department, arguing that an increasingly popular form of wireless Internet access could interfere with military radar, is seeking new limits on the technology, which is seen as a rare bright spot for the communications industry

It isn't what you know. It's how.

Here's AKMA on Learning & Desire. Good stuff.

More on Elcomsoft

Here's Dan. Lisa Bowman. I'll add others as they come along, after I wake up.

Okay, here ya go. Also here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Those are your mainstream press reports.

In the blogstream there's this, this, this, this and this.

Let's not forget where this thing began, by the way. Not pretty.

Ring of Net

On the NEA (Nobody owns it, Everybody can use it, Anybody can improve it) debate (that started here and continued here) about the nature of the Net, Chuq explains how Linus doesn't really own Linux... or, why he does and doesn't. Not an easy line to draw. It's a yes but no kinda thing.

Which is why it's just easier to use the NEA characterization than to explain its many exceptions. Think of it as a slogan, a tagline or a rallying cry — like Land of the free, home of the brave. Yes, there are exceptions; but it has the ring of truth to it. That ring alone makes its point.

Here's more from Britt.

Eric blogs back. No time to explain what I meant by a 'commie kind of place' other than to say it was a (successful) red herring.