9. December, 2002 - back to work you slacker!

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• Remember! Less than a week remaining to tell me why you should get a free camera.
• I wrote an essay about Maturity and what it means to me this morning. I think I'm against it.
• Feds Label Wi-Fi a Terrorist Tool, specifically open wireless networks. [boing boing]
• Software giants 'trample freedoms'. Source of the quote? RMS, natch. But he's got a point.
• Court Upholds Calif. Assault Weapons Ban, saying that the 2nd amendment is not an individual right. They seem to me to be confused. [fark!]
• Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President's Hotel. Apparently a camera is now a terrorist weapon. The police side of the story? They never arrested anyone matching his description. [boing boing]
• Hollywood Gets Norway to Try Jon Johansen Three Years Later. He's facing criminal charges for taking the necessary steps to view his own DVDs on his own computers. [boing boing]
• The ACLU's latest commercials are apparently pretty good. And pretty hard on John Ashcroft's view of the world. I haven't seen them yet, but I started complaining about this stuff beore USA-Patriot came to a vote. The situation hasn't gotten any better since.
• Soemthing's going on in Venezuela. I don't have much idea of what it is, or what to think of it, but The Devil's Excrement is a first hand account by a blogger. [Jim]
• Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Baked Beans, Spam, Spam, Spam, And Spam! Y'know, spam might not be that bad. It does give the gummint snoops more email to sift through. And they probably can't just toss all the spam out of hand, because someone might be including steganographically encoded messages. [endwar]
• Suit alleges deceptive Internet advertising banners. A lawyer's suing the Your computer is currently broadcasting an Internet IP address. With this address, someone can immediately begin attacking your computer. people. [fark!]

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:07:54.