12. June, 2002 - politics & technology

• Sorry the updates have been spotty lately. If it's any comfort, I'm behind on everything else, too.
• Congress Spends, Future Generations Pay the Bills. Sneaky how they avoided going on record to raise the national debt limit. [endwar]
• In Greens to Liberals: Drop Dead! Harold Meyerson says that the Green Party is gunning for the Democrats. He seems to think that's a bad thing, but I don't quite understand why. [karl]
• NM concealed weapons law ruled unconstitutional, because it allows cities and counties to ban guns. [instapundit]
• ReplayTV Users: "We are not thieves": ReplayTV customers today sued the entertainment industry to protect their rights to skip over commercials and record television programs for later viewing using digital video recorders. [boing boing]
• Irish Times Article - Police recruit survives bomb attack tells the story of the latest bombing in Northern Ireland. Dissident Republicans clearly attacked a CATHOLIC graduate of the Police academy to show their displeasure with the new Police Service of Northern Ireland(PSNI) which is replacing the Royal Ulster Contabulary (RUC). [Jim]
• Wireless safe for now The petition to the FCC filed by the satellite radio provider Sirius has been withdrawn. It asked the FCC to limit 'out-of-band' transmissions from 802.11 wireless devices. If pursued it may have resulted in the hobbling of wireless range. No word yet on why the petition was withdrawn.
• 2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband using off-the-shelf 802.11b hardware with some software tweaks.
• There's a Big Threat to 802.11b Networking, Yet Nobody Seems to Care -- Here's Why points out that even though Fusion Lighting would be clobbering the fastest 802.11b links (11Mb), it doesn't really matter because nobody's using that bandwidth today, and soon we'll be moving to 802.11a.
• Lots more news about 802.11b (and a and g) at 802.11b/WiFi News. It's geeky enough for me to cover, but besides doing isbn.nu, Glenn does a bang-up job covering wireless stuff, too. Read him regularly if you want your fix of wireless news.

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Thu, 13 Jun 2002 07:51:26.