Tuesday, June 18, 2002
General IT Books?
Torulf would like to start an ongoing discussion on books that anyone in the IT field would benefit in having in their library.
Who's afraid of ultra wideband?
Dan Briody
All of which makes one wonder: why are the wireless carriers so afraid of UWB, especially as the FAA and DOD have been using it without incident for 40 years?
NPR's brutally stupid linking policy
Cory Doctorow
NPR joins KPMG and other bastions of cluelessness by requiring that anyone who wishes to link to the NPR site fill in this form. No matter how deep or shallow your link is, NPR requires you to fill in this form.
Discussion at Slashdot. This comment notes that it may be that NPR just doesn't want people directly linking to their audio and video archives. While this is also stupid, I can better understand their reluctance. However, if this is the case, they should still rewrite their "no-links" policy...
Cyberspace's Legal Visionary
Q&A with Lawrence Lessig
The thing I'm most worried about is what happens as the network moves from an essentially common carriage-regulated medium to pipes that are unregulated and increasingly encouraged to discriminate for or against the content they serve.
