Friday, May 24, 2002
Baby Bells win FCC victory
Tiffany Kary
Local telephone companies won a major victory Friday when an appeals court overturned a Federal Communications Commission ruling that requires them to share lines with their competitors.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Untangling the Future
Paul Saffo
Technologies never move in straight lines. They wander. They cross-pollinate. And they create opportunities you'd never expect.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Don't get burned by bad mapping
Wayne Greenwood
Poor mapping is evident when a control does not relate visually or symbolically with the object it affects, requiring the user to stop and think, "what's going to happen when I turn this knob?"
How to create a Blogroll with Radio's outliner
system.verbs.builtins.radio.macros.blogroll changed on Thu, 23 May 2002 19:12:19 GMT: Renders blogroll links given the URL of an OPML file.
What have we here? Will I finally manage to bring some order to my bookmarks so I can share them with the world?
Nah, probably not. Still, it looks useful. I'll work on it tomorrow. Er, today, that is. I should probably think of sleeping sometime soon. Or, even better, move beyond thinking about sleep to actually doing it...
Hollywood Wants to Plug the 'Analog Hole'
Cory Doctorow
The plan is to embed a "watermark" (a theoretical, invisible mark that can only be detected by special equipment and that can't be removed without damaging the media in which it was embedded) in all copyrighted works. Thereafter, every ADC would be accompanied by a "cop chip" that would sense this watermark's presence and disable certain features depending on the conditions.
Discussion at Slashdot. I especially liked this comment.
Give it away now
Thomas Claburn
"You want to stop piracy?" asks Jack Scalfani, CEO of independent music site FightCloud.com. "Make your CDs affordable."
Discussion at Slashdot.
