22 August 2002

HELP my AirStation PCMCIA Card See my AirPort   HELP! -- I need to tweak something to get my Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11G PCMCIA Card talking to my Apple AirPort. The WLI-PCM-L11G connects to my laptop's PC card Type II slot. The WLI-PCM-L11G uses the IEEE802.11b standard to communicate over the 2.4 GHz radio frequency at up to 11Mbps. I need to make the card communicate with the AirPort using P2P or ad-hoc mode.

Enough. John Robb -- If the RIAA has its way, it will start shutting down selected Internet nodes. That a $20b industry can inflict $100b of damage for less than $1b of damages boggles the imagination.

Give a URL and Become Visible NEC.com -- I've presented at several international conferences and when I've offered URLs to my working notes, drafts or presentation materials, my stuff got mentioned more often. That compares to achieving absolutely zip recognition for papers presented in the 70s. Online or Invisible reports that papers published on the web are more often cited than papers not web-ified.

EUCD in the UK STAND.org.uk -- "What will copyright look like in the 21st century? Many people have many different ideas - it's all very much still in flux. The European Union, however, decided exactly how it would be on the 22nd of May, 2001. That was the date the European Directive on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the Information Society was passed. It will become law across Europe by Christmas of this year at the very latest: countries failing to follow the order will be in breach of the Treaty of Rome." The British government's consultation period runs until October.

Babeblogs Doc Searls -- Bored with the "male kinda shit that seems to comprise 5/4 of the blog world," Doc led me to the smartest babeblogs on the Web: Dawn (up yours and more helpful tips) and Moxie (HiQ Attitude).

All That Really Matters is Freedom WERBACH.com -- Kevin Werbach astutely fingers the conflict between Hollywood and the technology industry. "One sees content as the critical resource, and data networks as simply another mechanism to deliver it. The other sees connectivity as the essential factor, with movies being one of many resources that can travel along those connections. Hollywood sees a moral dimension in protecting its property and the creative works of its artists, as well as a nobility in bringing entertainment to the masses. The tech industry things bits are bits, and the only moral value that really matters is freedom."

Bookmark: Lawrence Lessig's Weblog Lawrence Lessig -- He's fun to hear, good to read and true-to-form in his weblog. Welcome Lawrence Lessig to the blogosphere by paying him a visit in cyberspace. Then mull over Dave Winer's rebuttals before you decide to buy any of Lessig's books.

Personal WiFi Hotspots Tim Kirby -- From coffee chats with Tim Kirby, I've learned that most American cell phone operators are now integrating 802.11b service with their networks. This means you could use a mobile network with a card phone (like the Nokia D211) to create a personal hotspot within 300 feet of your cardphone. This could make personal WiFi hotspots as pervasive as mobile phones.

American Justice Department Will Prosecute File Sharers NEWS.com -- John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, said Americans should realize that swapping illicit copies of music and movies is a criminal offense that can result in lengthy prison terms. Speaking at the Progress and Freedom Foundations annual technology and politics summit, Malcolm said the Internet has become "the world's largest copy machine" and that criminal prosecutions of copyright offenders are now necessary to preserve the viability of America's content industries.

Students Expect Internet Tasks PEW INTERNET.org -- A recent report concludes that students are far more adept than their teachers when it comes to finding creative educational uses for the Internet. "Many schools and teachers have not yet recognized — much less responded to — the new ways students communicate and access information over the Internet."

Finding WiFi Hotspots 80211b NEWS -- Starbucks's wireless store locator is merely an extension of their current store locator (select wireless from the popup menu), and it doesn't appear to offer a simple way to, for instance, find all activated stores in a geographic area -- only city by city. T-Mobile's location finder is just a modified MobileStar location finder code, except you can select entire categories.