26. March 2001 - Public nuisances

Fake Fans, Fake Buzz, Real Bucks offers a look at how movie studios are putting up fan sites to draw attention to upcoming movies. Sleazy and perhaps unethical. Would I do it if someone paid? Now there's a trickier question to answer.
With deception everywhere, Net calls for hierarchy of trust. More on the subject of bad information on the web.
Attention, Fat Corporate Bastards! We know about your plans for the Internet. Although you won't listen, we would like to point out how wrong you are now, so we can point out gleefully how right we were later.
The Spam Wars and Questions and Answers with Tim Pozar regarding spam. These came to my attention because Verio is censoring John Gilmore's email [ mirror at http://cryptome.org/verio-censor.htm ]. Verio are the big ISP who have been buying up smaller ISPs. One of them they bought was best.com, which is where some of my stuff is hosted. The Tim Pozar interview is most interesting, but while he makes Brightmail sound good, he ought to. He works there.
School shooter was a brooding loner. The only good news from the story is that the nuisance was stopped by an armed officer assigned to the school.
Congress hasn't the authority to dictate the blood-alcohol level for a DWI. Or to blackmail states by threatening to withhold highway dollars. Of course since the feds have already taken our money, they don't see a problem with putting conditions on its distribution. It's ours. We stole it fair and square.