John Robb:  "Here is a great overview of the amount of money from the entertainment industry that is buying votes in Congress.  Berman tops the list on this election cycle..." 

DaveNet:  Hollywood wants the right to hack your computer  [Scripting News] 

Music Bill Is Bully on IMs.  A bill in Congress that would allow record labels to use computer attacks to stop people using peer-to-peer networks would also allow the big, instant messaging companies to continue to distribute music. By Brad King.  [Roymond Radio < Wired News] 

Microsoft says no to music swapping  [CNET News.com]

Also see Tech execs: Hands off P2P 

Eric Norlin:  "Palladium can prevent the Bill that this DaveNet is disgusted with." So can voters taking responsibility for their Representatives. We don't have to trust Bill Gates to prevent this Bill. We can just vote the bastards out of office. Every member of the House is up for re-election in three months.  [Scripting News] 

Glenn Fleishman on Hollywood hacking:  "So if an entertainment company disabled 1,000 machines for a week, say, and people used these machines for personal entertainment and finance, and only one of those machines had illegal content on it, the penalty would be...nothing ..." 

4 Wives Slain In 6 Weeks At Fort Bragg.  In the past six weeks, four wives of soldiers at Fort Bragg have been murdered. Each death is blamed on the husband.  [Loebrich.org] 

When someone says something like "I generally ignore flamewars, but..." to start a thought, you can bet your bottom dollar that what follows will be an ugly, irrational attack on someone's character... 

Warning!  Do not click! 

"Hits Ho" surely must go into my newly created topic.itzagas - it's very funny... ;~)) 

Statement of Rep. Howard L. Berman: Introduction of the Peer to Peer Piracy Prevention Act (July 25, 2002)  [Scripting News] 

UPDATE 1/5/03:  Davezilla is now generating his own RSS feed.  The information below no longer applies.

I'm tickled to announce that Davezilla, one of the funniest people I know, has allowed me to create a news feed for his wonderfully amusing humor site.  If you don't know him, he says he's "like the Flying Monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, only dirtier."  I interviewed Davezilla last year at coolstop...

       davezilla.com

Enjoy! 

Analysts question mass move to .Net Server.  Are the software giant's customers hungry for the next version of its server operating system? The company is banking on it, but industry watchers aren't so sure.  [CNET News.com] 

Valenti backs away from P2P hack bill.  Not good enough for Hollywood  [The Register] 

Pondering Palladium  [Linux Today < The Snewp - Search Results] 

IBM and Linux our biggest threats - Microsoft.  Inspirational  [The Register]

Rudder said in 2003 Microsoft must ensure .NET becomes the preferred architecture for application development. To achieve this, Microsoft must convert millions of developers using existing versions of C/C++ and Visual Basic onto .NET versions of the company's languages.

What a great example of "Microsoft-centric" thinking... 

Bryan is such a Ho!.   I just wish he would link to me more, but he's too busy playin' with google (no, I don't understand that last link either, but it keeps showing up in my referrers - hehe)... 

July 2002

 


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