The other day a news story hit the media that a Drug Enforcement Agency agent had taken confidential DEA records and was peddling them to a private investigation firm. The DEA agent now faces prosecution. But according to ZDNet’s David Coursey, nobody ever really gets hurt by government misuse of information and so those of…
January, 2001
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In his post-Super Bowl commentary Chris Mortensen writes, Dilfer was also on the mark in his post-game interviews when he basically said that those who follow the NFL get too caught up in the “fantasy football” syndrome. It’s about winning. Dilfer is a Super Bowl winning QB, and he need not apologize to anyone. Huh?…
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Today ZDNET writes about Bruce Lehman forming a group to defend the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Lehman ran the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a number of years and was one of the folks who helped write the copyright laws. Now he says the anti-copyright forces are winning the battle over the DMCA. Unfortunately…
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Real.Com has a games division apparently, and has announced beta testing of a baseball strategy game it calls SmallBall. The kicker is the game combines baseball with virtual pet-like technology. According to a brief FAQ about the game, The concept behind SmallBall games is to combine sports with Artificial Life (A-life) technology. When you sign…
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When I first heard the announcement of the Palm IIIc and then the Visor with the color screen, I told my wife that this would make the Palm platform a viable, lucrative conduit for pornography. Turns out some 20 year old college student had similar thoughts.
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I always have to laugh when I see stories like today’s Wired article, Microsoft: Silence of the Flaks. Hmmm. A news organization running a story berating a company for not being more willing to talk to news organizations. No, that’s not a self-serving story at all. The irony, of course, is that news organizations such…
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PlanetOut reports that one of the women pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day in office had been serving time after being caught with 700 pounds of explosives that she admitted she planned to use in terrorist bombings. Yet another woman pardoned by Clinton was serving time for bombings carried out in the early…
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Like Steve Ivy I’m wondering exactly what Dave Winer is thinking with RSS 0.92. Okay I remember him complaining about how efforts to move forward with a new RSS implementation (or an extension of RSS 0.91) were getting bogged down and so he was striking out on his own. Fine — sometimes that’s the best…
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Speaking of “O Brother,” that was my reaction after watching “Fargo.” For years people I knew with pretty good taste in movies kept telling me I had to see “Fargo.” It was hilarious, cutting edge they said, and certainly there is a pretty rabid set of fans on the Internet and elsewhere. So I finally…
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The Washington Post reports that country music stations won’t play anything from the soundtrack of the Coen brothers’ new film, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” This despite the fact that the soundtrack is the number 2 country album in the country at the moment. Why won’t they play it? Because almost all country radio stations…