Comment Rest in Peace (Score 1) 1613
I didn't know you, and I was never lucky enough to get an email reply from you, but you changed my world and made it a better place. I'll miss you, Steve.
Comment Re:Are these...? (Score 1) 756
That would be the mass media.
The astronomers just came up with a definition that would make their work easier to describe and categorise.
Comment Re:really, i didn't make it up (Score 1) 232
Could it be that the lack of Banks books in a second hand bookstore has more to do with the fact that people don't often part with his books?
Just a thought from an Aussie who's never had any trouble acquiring any of them (except Against a Dark Background, which always seems to be out of stock when I realise there's a friend who hasn't read it yet).
Feed Google Changes Policy on Search Records (nytimes.com)
Google said it would start to make search logs anonymous after 18 to 24 months. Under current practices, the company keeps the logs indefinitely.
Submission + - SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act to be Signed Into Law
iptables -A FORWARD writes: "Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah reportedly plans to sign the ICPA (Internet Community Ports Act) into law. The ICPA proposes that online content be divided by port, rather like TVs have channels with adult and family content, so that certain internet ports will be "clean" and others will be "dirty." Thus, they hope to remove objectionable content from port 80 and require that it be moved elsewhere (port 666 was already taken by Doom, sorry), so that people could more easily block objectionable content, or have their ISPs block the ports with objectionable content for them. This law was originally suggested by the CP80 group, which is chaired by Ralph Yarro, who also chairs the SCO Group. That probably explains why they didn't choose to adopt RFC 3514, instead."
File Sharing — Harmful to Children and a Threat to National Security 342
jkrobin writes to mention that a recent report from the US Patent office calls peer-to-peer file sharing harmful to children and a threat to national security. "Interestingly, the report makes numerous references to RIAA and MPAA legal actions against file actions, as well as cites a 2005 Department of Homeland Security report that government workers had installed file-sharing programs that accessed classified information without their knowledge."
Feed Judge Drops Case Against Former H.P. Chairwoman (nytimes.com)
Charges against Patricia Dunn were dismissed in the corporate spying case. Three other defendants were ordered to perform community service.
