Jeff Nichols: TechItems of professional interest.(Untitled)- December 31, 2002 Perhaps this will be my last DMCA-bashing post of the year. Or perhaps this post will force me, my ISP and Radio Userland (the weblog's host company) to shut down. This article from Wired is as depressing and frightening as anything I've seen all year. To me, it's every bit as frightening as watching the towers fall on 9-11-01. The article describes how Dow Chemical took offense to a site making fun of them, and used the DMCA to force the site to shut down. Because of a stupid move on the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/31.html#a476 (Untitled)- December 22, 2002 My email is now officially a mess. The domain "nicholsgrp.com" is somewhere in DNS hell. Verisign may be in the process of moving the hosting site, or may just have edited the DNS entry and pointed the domain into the bit bucket. We'll see.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/22.html#a464 (Untitled)- December 21, 2002 It seems I'm not alone in problems transferring domains from Verisign's grasp. From supportem.com: "It has come to our attention that Verisign (was Network Solutions) has some 'unoffical' polices to make it difficult to transfer domains 30 days before expiring. Previously VeriSign has tried other questionable business tactics and has made it very difficult to transfer domains away from them. We are recommending if you are thinking of moving your domain away from VeriSign start the process as...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/21.html#a461 (Untitled)- December 21, 2002 Adam Curry: "Is it just me, or is iCal an incredibly good looking piece of crap" Scripting News No Adam, it's not just you. So far, iCal is just that. Disappointing.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/21.html#a460 (Untitled)- December 19, 2002 Did you notice that the DMCA is going down Well, it is.. Some nice evidence here. The Doc Searls Weblog This would be a very fine Christmas present. The DCMA is horrific, and deserves to be put down. Thanks, Doc.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/19.html#a456 (Untitled)- December 18, 2002 My friend Matt beat me to the punch on this one. According to the NYTimes, the DoD is looking to regulate WLANs, as they might interfere with military weapons and comms systems.. Great, that's all we need - take the one Next Big Thing that tech has produced in the last two years and kill it in the name of Defense. I'm with Matt - if the DoD can't work around 2.4 Ghz and 5 Ghz, then we're in real trouble.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/18.html#a453 (Untitled)- December 18, 2002 Sharp piggybacks WLAN for PDA voice service. Cool The Register I really think this is the architecture for the future. WLAN is the perfect last mile connection, and why not pipe voice and data through it Cable companies and telcos should be slugging it out to offer the best neighborhood WLAN possible if they want to be the transport for the future. And, they won't have to dig up our streets again.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/18.html#a450 (Untitled)- December 17, 2002 Here's a cool new thing in the world: Froogle.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/17.html#a448 (Untitled)- December 15, 2002 Keeping Track of John Poindexter. Online pranksters have turned the tables on the man behind the government's controversial Total Information Awareness effort. They are posting his personal information on hundreds of sites. By Paul Boutin. Wired News This seems a little harsh, but it sure gets the point across. TIA is a nightmare; 1984 come true. Our best hope is that the work being done on TIA will take 10 years and become mired in government procurement and management processes.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/15.html#a443 (Untitled)- December 12, 2002 Doc on blogs: "Anyway, pardon me for being a humanities major and all, but what blogs are about isn't complicated. Simply put, they're journals, and the category they're changing most is journalism. Here's what I said about it to a Stanford class not long ago in an interview. Of course I might change my mind after this conference we're talking about. I have no idea, which is exactly the idea." I like the way this guy thinks.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/categories/workJournal/2002/12/12.html#a440 |