P2P hacking bill may be amended.  A controversial proposal in Congress to legalize hacking of peer-to-peer networks won't likely be enacted this year. Instead, the bill will be rewritten.  [CNET News.com] (also reported earlier by Scripting News) 

Making Spammers Pay.  IronPort, an e-mail gateway maker, is putting a novel spin on the war to end spam as we know it. Acting as a 'white' list, mass e-mailers agree to pay every time they stray.  [internetnews.com: Top News]

The incentive for marketers to join this list is the fact ISPs are other hosts are now free to crank up their filtering programs, and when that happens most mass e-mails, as well as the spam, will be sent right to the bulk folder.

The caveat to that, of course, is that marketers agree to play by the rules of the game; if they don't, they pay. Weiss said his company is still working out the details as far as pricing, but expects it will correspond with the size of the e-mail blasts the marketer sends out.

Interesting approach.  I have to admit that not all e-mail marketers are evil - some actually follow the real meaning of "opt-in" mailings.  Is this possibly a viable ISP level solution?   

Useless Thoughts.  "Convicted graffiti artists on the Isle of Man are forced to have replicas of their graffiti tattooed on their chests."  [...useless miscellany] 

Horst:  "This brings up an interesting question a friend of mine asked a couple of days ago: how on earth are the USA going to deal with a ground war in Iraq if they can't even deal with one mad sniper in their own country? After all, there's going to be more than one sniper in Baghdad."

I don't think the relatives of the murder victims can laugh at that any more than at the "desperate attempt at black humour" Horst linked to (and accurately assessed) elsewhere in his post.  Though I probably view the possibility of war with Iraq in the same light as Horst's friend (i.e., I don't support going after Iraq), trying to connect it with comparing a war with Iraq to the "mad sniper" situation is way out of line a disconnect, in my opinion. 

I definitely agree with you Steve.  Watching the reporters badger the police chief yesterday about whether the police were doing a good job, if he was withholding information that should be disclosed, and whether the case should be taken over by the Feds was more than I could stomach.  The story is already spectacular enough without all that embellishment.

Dix - roadkill and soul-less spirituals is a great piece... loved it.

Thanks Dane.

Rob pointed to an amusing episode of This Modern World at Salon.  I think the advertising model of a brief multimedia ad that redirects to the content, all in one window, is much more user-friendly (and probably more effective) than annoying pop-up and pop-under ads.

Gregory and Steve have both spotted snow.  That doesn't exactly ring my bell, though my wife Kim always gets excited when it snows for the first time (probably because she was born and raised in Florida).  BTW, she's been in Germany since Saturday and I can't wait to pick her up at the airport this afternoon.  Hmm... guess the mention of snow did ring my bell.  ;~)) 

Dave Winer:  "Vote for your favorite RSS Validation badge!" 

>>  "Hard work means hard parties" and when 20 students from TTVO in Tampere, Finland took a 5 day journey to Karlskrona and back, they decided to document it in the form of an experimental diary...  [Coolstop Daily Pick 10/23/02 via linkdup unfiltered] 

InternetWeek.com:  Vendor Warns Of New IE Holes; Microsoft Calls Reports Irresponsible.  A security vendor Monday claimed to have found nine new Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, many of them critical.  [Google Technology News]

GreyMagic's statements launched another round in an ongoing argument between software vendors and independent security consultants over how security flaws should be disclosed.

Good points made by both sides of the argument, though I'd say both parties are each motivated more by their bottom line than for the "safety" of users... 

October 2002

 


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