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I'm off of Scoble's list

I'm off of Scoble's list 04/16/2005 05:34 AM

So Scoble gets together this whole blogging dinner with Jim Allchin and I wasn't invited.

They talked about Longhorn and the Windows Home Media Center. Thank God Doug Kaye and Thomas Hawk were there.

Back when I WAS on Scoble's list - he and his boss Lenn Pryor - got me into the Longhorn PDC '03. That's when I realized that Microsoft was validating many of our theories of islands connecting together into a archipelago of functionality and community.

Longhorn's vast futuristic vision has been methodically prodding along for several years now. By telescoping out so far in advance MS was able to inform us enough - to get properly prepared.

We're going to mesh right into MS and vice versa. Their lumbering giant dinosaur footsteps will give us small furry creatures plenty of time to get out from underneath.

And who survived the ice age - anyway? [John Perry Barlow quote...]

Also with InfoCards being announced - the mechanism to do all this is starting to appear. I wonder is Ev asked him about that?

Well anyway I won't hide my dissappointment of not being invited - even though I was in Seoul all week - getting cyber soul. That's perhaps one of the things MS and Allchin are missing about the future - how much the International community will play a part in all this.

The future is being crafted up in Redmond anymore - it's on the streets of Lan Kwan Fung, Itaewon and Akihabara. In Trieste, Reading and Amsterdam. And DEFINITELY in Banglore, Delhi and Bulgaria.

Anyway - I hereby publicly officially request an audience with his majesty. In addition to kissing his ring magnificently - I promise to make great suggestions on how Microsoft can participate in open standards - along with Yahoo, Google and Amazon.

We'll even let Microsoft help sponsor ourmedia.org. But only if they're nice and they take me out to a great restaurant.

Robert Scoble's Hotel Adventure

Robert Scoble's Hotel Adventure 07/26/2004 08:53 PM

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Robert Scoble has a bit of an unpleasant experience with a hotel that remains stuck in 1995. Apparently the the hotel in question was still using a DOS application for room bookings. DOS people! That is not the best of it, Scoble’s little adventure continued as he was locked out of one room, then the hotel gave another room to someone else. Needless to say, I do not believe that Scoble will be staying at…

Gartenberg says Scoble's suggestions
would be horrible for Longhorn

Gartenberg says Scoble's suggestions
would be horrible for Longhorn 12/10/2003 04:34 AM

Michael Gartenberg: "Making some of the changes that Robert describes would I think actually be a big step backward in getting Longhorn adopted."

"Winning Argument"

"Winning Argument" 06/22/2004 04:03 AM

Winning Argument

Winning Argument 07/14/2004 10:23 AM
When you’re a liberal and you’re in an argument with a conservative, here’s how you win .. Ammunition for debates with Conservatives

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A Circular Argument

A Circular Argument 03/14/2005 06:21 PM

The Idea: A debate on how best to deal with the pressing global problems of overpopulation and overconsumption. Dave talks to himself. We need to reduce human population to sustainable levels -- no more than 1-2 billion people globally. Why? The problem isn't numbers of people, it's the amount of resources they consume. And as nations become educated, they control their own population. The global population is going to level off at 9 billion. And no other method beside education has ever had any enduring effect on birth rate anyway. You can't legislate it -- the need to reproduce is an imperative in our DNA. Well, then, we need to reduce consumption. Today we are already consuming resources and producing pollution and waste at a rate twice what the planet can sustain, and as third world countries aspire to first world living standards this is on track to rise to eight times what the planet can sustain by the end of the century. You underestimate human ingenuity and invention. Technology has already allowed us to increase crop yields enormously, to the point each acre of land can produce far more food than anyone ever expected. That same ingenuity will solve other shortages -- replacing oil with renewable sources, finding ways to refresh water, enabling us to put more people on each acre and still keep our cities pleasant and habitable, even growing food indoors. So then what. You have a whole planet packed with people, cities covering every square inch of the planet, and no room for any other species of life. In the first place, if the 9 billion all lived in healthy, well-designed cities, even cities full of trees and parks, those cities would still only take up 10% of the Earth's surface. The other 90% would leave tons of room for other species of life, But that's just idealism. The reality is that people don't live in well-designed cities, they sprawl out and clearcut and poison all the land available to them. Well, that's human nature. We want room. But historically people have actually flocked to cities, and are still doing so. If you make a city attractive, people actually prefer to live there rather than in the country. The key is reinventing our cities. Europe is showing how to do that now, and the rest of us will learn. Not everyone wants to live in cities. And much of the land outside the cities is used up and despoiled in order to provide people in the cities with what they want and need. Yes, and we'll have to learn to be more efficient. Europe basically ran out of land a century ago, and since then they have been pioneers: achieving population stability and even reducing population, reclaiming land as wilderness to increase biodiversity, making cities more livable and more efficient and self-sufficient with wind turbines etc. so the land outside the cities need not be used up and despoiled. We can even invent proteins that have the same flavour, texture and appearance as animal proteins, and free up the 70% of arable land now used for grazing animals and growing food for those animals. What you're describing violates the laws of thermodynamics. The stuff these 9 billion people consume has to come from somewhere. Yes, and right now it comes from a lot of wasteful and inefficient processes. We're still learning how to live properly. We will learn to reduce, reuse, recycle, to live within our means and consume no more than we produce. How can you be so optimistic? Open your eyes, and all you will see is evidence to the contrary. I guess you see what you want to see. I think we've come a long way from the middle ages. There is less barbarity now. There is more knowledge and understanding. We are much better connected and aware of what needs to be done. How can you be so pessimistic? All the wars and violence, poisoned food, water and land, preventable disease and suffering, global warming, end of oil, factory farming, government corruption, an economy dependent on unsustainable growth. I could go on... There have always been problems. Look at the Spanish Inquisition, the tyrannies of Stalin and Mao that together resulted in the deaths of over 100 million people, the two world wars, the cold war with two irrational fingers on the nuclear button. Somehow we seem to have the survival instinct to pull back from the brink in time. But this time we're heading over the brink with a lot more mass and a lot more momentum -- more, faster than ever before, like a heavily-laden car careening out of control. Maybe. If you think so, you should recognize human nature for what it is, very adaptable, very resistant to change, and slowly maturing. And then focus your attention on the "careening car's" vulnerabilities, areas where change is most possible. Go teach people, especially women, in the third world, and give them reliable, cheap, easy-to-use birth control, so they 'grow up' to the European model faster. Make it not worth their while to aspire to move to the West, and make them see that the Western European standard of living is a better model to emulate than the North American one. And in North America, work in urban planning to make sprawl and commuting unnecessary, to make urban communities efficient, self-sufficient, self-managed, and delightful to live in. Work in renewable energy and remediation technology. Help North Americans 'grow up' to see the value of the Western European model of land use, not to see value in each owning their own personal 50 by 100 foot piece of chemical-laden grass. There's not nearly enough time for that. It's already happening. Third-world population growth rates, though still too high, are dropping. India is starting to attract some of its emigrants back. 'Smart Growth' models, though poorly named, and telecommuting are helping to reduce sprawl and commuting in North America. And if you're right and this won't be enough to avert ecological disaster, well, then you might as well party, because no top-down political act or peer-to-peer meme is going to cause people to change their behaviour before they're ready, before they have no alternative. It's not in our nature. Hey wait a minute. I thought I was the pessimist. You are. I don't believe it will ever come to that. There are a lot of scientists and students of history who say it will. So do my instincts. So I believe we need to take a precautionary approach, using tax incentives and social and political pressure and technology to get people to voluntarily reduce human population to sustainable levels -- say, to 1-2 billion people globally. Uh, I already answered that.

One More Argument for Security

One More Argument for Security 06/28/2004 01:18 PM
In an amusing instance of a less-than-brilliant criminal mind, a Maryland man is busted for trying to extort a company via emails sent from unsecured hotspots: In an effort to get back at a business that competes with his own, this fellow used unsecured hotspots around town to send threatening emails and demands for $17 million. Apparently he figured that using the unsecured sites would keep him anonymous. The trouble is, he slipped up when he instructed the recipients to write the checks out to him. The FBI had tracked down the emails to the hotspots but seeing as the owners of the hotspots had no connection to the business receiving the emails, they were clearly not involved....

How to Explain Everything

How to Explain Everything 05/22/2004 12:58 AM
Part 1: Decisions, Decisions. Are you going to eat out tonight or cook at home? Will you watch a TV program or read a book? Will you study something tonight or will you go out with friend? Do you go out every night or do you save up for a car? Do you get into a relationship or keep things casual? All of these questions are the subject of economics. Do you just flip a coin every time you need to make a decision? Sometimes? Only when there's really no difference between the choices to you? How do you balance unlimited desires with limited resources? In the big picture, economics is the study of choices. While many think of it as the study of making money, it isn't. It's just that most choices hinge around money because of what money is, but that's jumping too far ahead. If you want to understand how the world works -- how you and everyone else make decisions -- economics provides a lot of insight. This is the first in a series.

"explain"

"explain" 04/08/2005 04:53 AM

That Would Explain It

That Would Explain It 08/20/2004 11:15 PM
Shark Tank: Help desk staffer complains that her voice-over-IP phone calls are breaking up. So the network team puts a sniffer on the line and tracks down something on the network that's using a lot of bandwidth. ...

"A Few Notes from the Grokster Argument"

"A Few Notes from the Grokster Argument" 03/29/2005 11:44 PM

"a nicely documented argument"

"a nicely documented argument" 04/29/2004 09:09 AM

The Republic of Texas Argument

The Republic of Texas Argument 04/14/2004 11:52 PM

Heh... I worked 16+ hours today (sucks to be in a suit that long), but got this email in my inbox from a buddy today and figured I'd share it. Sort of tells the "why Texans think so much of their state" story a little differently:

From: The People of Texas
To: All Concerned Voters

With the presidential campaign in full swing, Texas has a message for all those complainers out there. After seeing the whiners, the folks from Texas have decided that we might just take matters into our own hands.

Here is our solution:

1. Let Kerry become President of the United States (all 49 states).
2. George W. Bush becomes the President of the Republic of Texas.

So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?

NASA is in Houston, Texas. We will control the space industry.

We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.

Defense Industry - we have over 65% of it. The term "Don't mess with Texas," will take on a whole new meaning

Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. Yankee states - sorry about that.

Natural Gas - again we have all we need and it's too bad about those northern states. Mr. Kerry will have to figure a way to keep them warm.

Computer Industry - we currently lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications: Small places like HP, Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Semiconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Delphi, Nortel, Alcatel, Etc,Etc. The list goes on and on.

Health Centers - We have the largest centers for Cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world and other large health planning centers.

We have enough colleges to keep us going: Texas A&M, U.T., Texas Tech, Rice, SMU, University of Houston, Baylor, UNT, Texas Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the south anyway.

We have a ready supply of workers. Just open the border when we need some more.

We control a good portion of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc.

In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don't have an army, but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an army in 24 hours if we need it. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over a couple of Texas Rangers.

We are totally self sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs and vegetable produce and everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food from anywhere else.

This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Kerry: Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Kerry will be able to drive around in his 9 mile per gallon SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.

You won't have any TV as the space center in Houston will cut off your satellite communications. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes but since Mr. Kerry has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas.

Signed,

The People of Texas

Here we have the final argument to be
made

Here we have the final argument to be
made 09/10/2004 06:43 PM

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Passing an Argument to an Executable

Passing an Argument to an Executable 09/19/2004 04:36 AM

mobl0gging a subway argument

mobl0gging a subway argument 08/27/2004 02:15 PM
man, i'm glad i'm not *that* guy

Grokster argument, the electronica mix

Grokster argument, the electronica mix 08/22/2004 07:30 AM
Cory Doctorow: MLFG, a techno artist, has set the good guys' closing arguments in the Grokster case to music. This is the dancing-est legal argument I've ever heard: pub-pub-pub-pub-pub-pub-public domain materials. Seriously, this rocks. Part 1, 1.5MB MP3 Link, Part 2, 970k MP3 Link (Thanks, Shawn!)

My Querystring Argument Neurosis

My Querystring Argument Neurosis 03/22/2005 04:32 PM

I have a serious Web development neurosis: I hate querystring arguments. You know the garbage after the page name in a URL? Like this:

page.php?thisArgument=thisValue&andThisArgument=thisValue

I hate them. I think they're ugly, unweidly, and expose too much of your application to the world. This is an utterly irrational thing, I know, because querystring arguments work perfectly well. I just need to get over myself.

But is the querystring argument falling out of fashion? A lot of apps now run all requests through a single page, and they grab and parse the URL themselves. For instance:

/products/hunting_gear/1

This would show page 1 of products in the hunting gear category. There is no "products" or "hunting_gear" folder or file named simply "1." Instead, this URL is mapped to an actual block of code. You can do this with a RewriteRule pretty easily (you could do it with a PHP auto-prepend file too).

In my PHP apps, I use an AliasMatch rule to route everything to a single page and I have a mapper like this:

/product/[0-9]+/edit = edit_product.php

This uses a regular expression to map a URL pattern to a file. If the first "directory" is "product," the second is a number of some kind, and the third is "edit," then send them to the page to edit a product. That page will grab the number out of the URL and use it to load an object.

J2EE does this too, to map URL strings to servlets (I forget what the file is called..."web.config," maybe?). I have no doubt that .Net has the same functionality in there somewhere. I think Rails does this too, from what Joe tells me.

Using the A cceptPathInfo directive for Apache, you can do things like this:

index.php/this/is/some/extra/info

But that just looks sloppy to me. I don't know why. eZ publish does this by default, and it bugs me to no end.

Finally, today I found this, and it's what prompted me to write this little diatribe:

/messages.cfm/forumid:4/threadid:39092

So they're using AcceptPathInfo, but each "directory stop" along the way is a key-value pair. I like this. It speaks to the aesthetic in me, or to the neurotic, depending on how you look at it.

This last example perhaps proves that it's just the syntax I don't like — all those &'s and ='s floating around are like fingernails on a blackboard to me. This example is key-value just like traditional querystring arguments, so the function is the same, just the syntax is different. The colon-slash syntax just looks cleaner to me.

Am I the only one with this problem? Does anyone else hate querystring arguments as much as me?

Developers Explain: Why RSS 1.0?

Developers Explain: Why RSS 1.0? 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Developers Explain - Why RSS 1.0?

Developers Explain - Why RSS 1.0? 01/09/2004 09:54 PM

Microsoft disputes key Oracle argument

Microsoft disputes key Oracle argument 06/24/2004 12:53 PM
IHT Jun 24 2004 5:15PM GMT

Grokster argument analysis from law
student

Grokster argument analysis from law
student 03/29/2005 05:20 PM
Cory Doctorow: This law student who attended Grokster has written a stellar account of the argument, giving a good, nuanced analysis of what the lawyers and the judges were up to.

At least some of the Justices, Scalia in particular, seemed troubled by how an inventor would know, at the time of inventing, how its invention might be marketed in the future. How, some of the Justices asked MGM, could the inventors of the iPod (or the VCR, or the photocopier, or even the printing press) know whether they could go ahead with developing their invention? It surely would not be difficult for them to imagine that somebody might hit upon the idea of marketing their device as a tool for infringement.

MGM's answer to this was pretty unsatisfying. They said that at the time the iPod was invented, it was clear that there were many perfectly lawful uses for it, such as ripping one's own CD and storing it in the iPod. This was a very interesting point for them to make, not least because I would wager that there are a substantial number of people on MGM's side of the case who don't think that example is one bit legal. But they've now conceded the contrary in open court, so if they actually win this case they'll be barred from challenging "ripping" in the future under the doctrine of judicial estoppel. In any event, though, MGM's iPod example did exactly what their proposed standard expressly doesn't do: it evaluated the legality of the invention based on the knowledge available to the inventor at the time, not from a post hoc perspective that asks how the invention is subsequently marketed or what business models later grow up around it.

Link (Thanks, Donna!)

Update: Timothy sez, "I'm not just a 'law student,' I'm an attorney with ten years of experience in Supreme Court and appellate litigation."

Realistic Argument for Broadband Access

Realistic Argument for Broadband Access 04/29/2004 05:54 PM
While many communities around the country vaguely hope that wireless networks will bring business to town, this Indiana town has some very real reasons for wanting broadband: Scottsburg, Ind. couldn't get any kind of broadband access from the incumbents so it spent $350,000 to build a wireless broadband network. The network equipment comes from Alvarion, which means that it's probably proprietary gear based on 802.11. The network has a very tangible economic affect on the town. Apparently, Chrysler promised to shut down the local Chrysler repair shop, which employs 60 people, if they couldn't get fast Internet access. Other local workers who telecommute threatened to move if they couldn’t get high-speed Internet access. Plus, the school system is saving a bundle with the new service. This Indiana town most certainly isn't alone in wanting broadband but failing to get it from the incumbents. While we already see lots of wireless ISPs serving these small markets, clearly they aren't serving every community that wants broadband. Perhaps WiMax will drive down prices enough to encourage WISPs to build out in more small towns....

Which side is out of line in the Harmony
argument?

Which side is out of line in the Harmony
argument? 07/29/2004 08:36 PM
Has RealNetworks adopted the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod? Or should Apple back down and let consumers be the ones choosing what music goes on their iPod? Does the DMCA even apply to this issue?

Which side is out of line in the Harmony argument? -- post your opinion in our online survey

A Weekend Trip Where I Don't Have to
Explain My Job

A Weekend Trip Where I Don't Have to
Explain My Job 09/11/2004 01:04 PM

I'm at O'Reilly Media's F oo Camp this week, a weekend tech-folk retreat at O'Reilly's Sebastopol offices. Lots of old friends from EFF, iBiblio, MusicBrainz, Mozilla, OSAF, BBC and more, plus plenty of new acquaintances. I'm a bit awed by the crowd and just doing a lot of listening and learning.

AGP on Intel 9xx chipsets? We explain
how

AGP on Intel 9xx chipsets? We explain
how 06/04/2004 05:18 PM

Please, can any body explain me what is
DVD+R and DVD-R media and DVD-RW and
DVD+RW

Please, can any body explain me what is
DVD+R and DVD-R media and DVD-RW and
DVD+RW 08/21/2004 07:29 AM
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Job Specialization and Why it's hard to
explain what I do...

Job Specialization and Why it's hard to
explain what I do... 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
Ever since switching jobs a while back, one of the questions I'm asked most often by co-workers and friends I don't see that often is... What exactly is your job, anyway? The funny thing is that I've never had a short answer for it. Instead, I have to rattle off a medium sized list of loosely related things I end up getting involved in. And people seem generally puzzled at first but eventually say, "oh... that's kind of cool." Reading...

I often try and explain it by quoting
Barbarella

I often try and explain it by quoting
Barbarella 08/03/2004 07:32 PM
I mean, who wants to transform themselves into an alien, you know? Joshua does. With disturb ing results .

Q: And his ears?
A: I cut them off. It was not hard.

Shark Tank: That would explain it

Shark Tank: That would explain it 03/14/2005 05:10 PM
Support pilot fish gets a frantic call from a secretary at another site who tells him that her computer screen has gone completely blank in the middle of typing a document that's needed ASAP. Can he help?

FBI Must Explain 70 Probes Before
9/11-Panelists

FBI Must Explain 70 Probes Before
9/11-Panelists 04/11/2004 01:23 PM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 11 2004 4:46PM GMT

Does O'Reilly's new book explain what
you need to know about JMX?

Does O'Reilly's new book explain what
you need to know about JMX? 02/11/2003 02:24 AM
CNET Feb 11 2003 1:24AM ET

Java Web Start argument injection
vulnerability

Java Web Start argument injection
vulnerability 03/19/2005 03:10 AM
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Rehashing the same stale file sharing
argument

Rehashing the same stale file sharing
argument 04/05/2005 11:48 AM
Over on Dangerousmeta I saw a link to this Op-Ed by Daniel Henninger from the Wall Street Journal,Can Justice Scalia Solve the Riddles Of the Internet? Without profit even the digital world will break down. Having recently read the excellent profile of Justice Scalia in The New Yorker (which frustratingly doesn't appear to be online), I was curious to read the article. I was disappointed to discover it rehashed the same old fallacious arguments about people "stealing" music online, and worse, that it got mired in questions of morals. One would expect the article, beginning with its subtitle, "Without profit even the digital world will break down," to espouse a pro free-market stance (it is the Wall Street Journal, after all), but one only has to read half of the piece before Mr. Henninger begins to crow for old business models to be locked in place by the government if "the people" (Pirates, I'm looking in your direction...) won't follow the old rules: [T]here will always be another wave of digitized aliens hacking through the copyright walls. There has to be a better way.There is. It's called right and wrong.It may seem quaintly old school to suggest that people should stop downloading culture without paying simply because it's the right thing to do. But that may be the best option available.For starters, if "the people" don't solve this problem themselves, Congress will, and you won't like the solution--unless you enjoy the tax code. Why it's up to "the people" to solve a problem that's surely not theirs I don't know. Worse, the presumably pro free market writer Mr. Henninger, (who is the deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page) threatens/encourages/suggests government intervention rather than identify the real source of the problem: the media companies themselves. Instead he hints that downloaders may just well be a bunch of Commie freeloaders! I would push this even further; it requires a moral or at least philosophical commitment to the legitimacy of profit. Absent that, there's no hope. If only Mr. Henninger, the RIAA, and those enamored of their old business models predicated on tangible media would stop litigating for the past, they would see there's a whole lot of hope out there. According to this Pew Internet & American Life Project March 2005 Data Memo (warning: pdf): Current file downloaders are now more likely to say they use online music services like iTunes than they are to report using p2p services. The percentage of music downloaders who have tried paid services has grown from 24% in 2004 to 43% in our most recent survey. There are two things happening with online file sharing: 1. It's the market's way of saying not that it doesn't see profit, per se, as legitimate but that the prices charged, for example, by BMG for Shakira's CD don't reflect its perceived value. 2. People are willing to pay when there's a means available for them to do so that embraces what's great about the digitization of media (easy access, portability, recommendations/sharing with friends and family, etc.). Just because large companies chose to ignore this technology rather than embrace it doesn't mean the market should as well. The market is actually working as it should, and consumer demand is driving the development of stores like iTunes. The people/market aren't wrong, it's the companies who'd rather litigate instead of catching up, or leading. What if big media companies -- instead of pouring millions into lawsuits like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer v. Grokster -- invested money to: 1. Digitize all the content in their catalogues, and offer it for sale through iTunes or some other online music store of choice. During the 2003 Eldred v. Ashcroft case, the Supreme Court found that 98 percent of all copyrighted works are not commercially available. Digitize all that, and suddenly there's a whole lot more to sell. 2. Continued to explore and expand ancillary revenue streams from all the album extras like concerts and merchandise. I seem to recall from a New Yorker article that this is where a lot of the money comes from anyway, and a large amount isn't from CD sales. 3. Embrace the web -- not just to create a distribution mechanism for the digital bits, but also for the fans. Create lively sites for each artist, populate them with real consistent content, create conversation space for aficionados (what fans have already done with sites like green plastic radiohead, a fan site for the band Radiohead) and build the traffic. Make money off of the ad revenue. How hard is it to adapt and evolve one's business model to the changing time? I think that's what irks me the most about all this -- taking it to the courts to ensure that because something once was, it should (be legislated to) always be. All this "copyright" is just code for "profit." P.S. What about a bumper sticker that says, "Your failed business model is not my problem"? P.P.S. In retrospect, this is such a stupid article, I can't believe I wasted any time responding to it, when I could be enjoying the glories of Paris!

Final Argument Delivered by Unscathed
Auburn

Final Argument Delivered by Unscathed
Auburn 01/04/2005 01:56 AM
No. 3 Auburn completed an undefeated season with a 16-13 victory over Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl, but the Tigers may not be any better than No. 2 in the country.

The DRM argument and calling Wired
Editor to the Table

The DRM argument and calling Wired
Editor to the Table 12/31/2004 07:01 PM

Great article and a must read for all of you that are concerned with where DRM is taking us. [ BoingBoing]

"The Decline of Fashion Photography | An
argument in pictures. | B..."

"The Decline of Fashion Photography | An
argument in pictures. | B..." 01/10/2004 10:13 PM

Bible Argument Spurs Boiling-Oil Charge
(AP)

Bible Argument Spurs Boiling-Oil Charge
(AP) 05/20/2004 04:07 PM
AP - A woman is accused of pouring boiling oil on her boyfriend's face in an argument over a Bible verse.

Poor argument blamed for Oracle victory

Poor argument blamed for Oracle victory 09/17/2004 02:44 AM

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