15. June, 2002 - Saturday afternoon

• It seems that four hours in a couple bars, plus playing frisbee in a parking lot until the cops tell us to go home is a good way to ensure I sleep until noon. Who'd a thunk?
• It also seems that the background color I put on links you're hovering over screws up IE 6/Win. Blegh. So now it's gone.
• After 11 years, jury vindicates Earth First pair / FBI, Oakland officers must pay 4.4 million for civil rights abuses. The FBI is likely to appeal. The Judi Bari Website has more. [google news]
• EPA to relax air pollution rules for utilities, allowing old coal plants on which the utilities have been deferring maintenance to increase the amount of pollution they emit. Feh. [strib]
• Software End User License Agreement Upheld In Court in spite of the fact that few (if any) people ever read the damned things. [fark!]
• cellphones useful for clandestine bugging and tracking Use a cellphone as an inexpensive debugging device: turn off ringtones and attach an external microphone. Plant it in your boss' office and call in when he shuts his office door. It can also be used as a tracking device -- 911 regulations require that a cellphone broadcast its position, so that with suitable equipment, a phone placed in a trunk can serve as a means to track a vehicle. [Reed, via Dave Farber's List]
• Consumers Face Wiretapping Fees to pay for changes mandated under a 1994 law. It's things like this that make me think that having None of the Above on ballots would be a good thing. A further good thing would be that the seat stays empty if NOTA wins. That government is best which governs least, and it's hard to govern less than an empty chair. [librarian]
• America, broken as deisgned attempts to compare the design docs, implementation docs, and implementation for the US to see how the project went. Hopefully it's not a post-mortem, eh? [endwar]
• US invasion proposal shocks MPs: The Dutch parliament was shocked by a US legislative proposal giving an official green light to a US invasion of the Netherlands should it be deemed necessary to free US citizens from the International Criminal Court in The Hague. [boing boing]

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