Archive for May, 2005

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Child Militia Join the Copyfight

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

This [little piece of news](http://p2pnet.net/story/4976) from p2pnet caught me completely off guard. It seems on Friday [Wired Kids](http://www.wiredkids.org), an advocacy group supposedly dedicated to protecting kids on line–presumably from things like predatory pedophiles–awarded the MPAA with it’s first ever “Doing It Right” award. No one seems to be exactly sure what they’re doing […]

And the Hits Just Keep on Coming

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Your mission for this weekend: go to your local library–if you can find one that doesn’t [fingerprint](http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/21/fingerprint_scanners.html)–check out a copy of 1984 and the director’s cut DVD of Bladerunner. Read the one, watch the other, and report back on Monday. HP just announced [your future](http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050527005136&newsLang=en), and you’ll probably want to get a leg […]

Nokia: How to Do Opensource Right

Friday, May 27th, 2005

The [Nokia 770](http://www.nokia.com/770) has gotten a lot of press in the last couple of days, but it deserves a little more. Nokia has always been hacker and homebrew friendly. Most of their consumer devices use [Symbian](http://www.symbian.com/), which provides good docs and runs a fairly useful developer site, and this attitute of openess is […]

Friends in High Places

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Pete and Repeat went into a bar…
Apparently the MPAA, no longer content with getting Spanish academics fired, has decided to up the ante. They’ve convinced the Justice Department to start filing criminal charges against organizers of BitTorrent networks. In a press relase pulished to the interestingly named file [starwars52505.htm](http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/starwars052505.htm), (at least they’re honest […]

OpenSSH 4.1 Released

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Latest news from the hackathon: OpenSSH 4.1 has been officially released. Damien (drm@) just sent the email:
> OpenSSH 4.1 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.
> OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server […]

Mixed Networks Admin.: A Little tlp

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

To get back a little more into tech content:
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time with a lot of xterms open: local session, ssh sessions, database connections, you name it. Keeping track of all those windows can get confusing, especially if you aren’t always at the same physical console. Different […]

Free Speech–It’s What’s For Dinner

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

In a 5 to 4 decision, the Supreme Court has upheld the government’s right to coerce citizens and non-citizens alike into funding government-sponsored speech they find objectionable. The suit in question was brought by cattle ranchers who objected to the $1 per head fee levied on an ongoing basis by the USDA under the 1985 […]

USA PATRIOT Redux

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Over the weekend, the EFF obtained a copy of the bill the US Senate Select Committe on Intelligence will be considering this Thursday, “A Bill to Permanently Authorize Certain Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act and Other Matters”. They also obtained an commitee executive summary, which contanis great tidbits like this:
> Section 204 provides […]

HOWTO: pf with one interface

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

OpenBSD’s (and now FreeBSD’s) pf(4) is by far the most sophisticated built-in firewall distributed with an current OS. It catches packets early, allows for stateful filtering based on almost any attribute, maintains state cleanly even with NAT, and implements binat and queues, among other things. pf also provides powerful features like macros and […]

MTA Photography Ban Dropped

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

> A proposal to ban photography on the city’s subways to deter surveillance by terrorists has been nixed by police and transit officials.
> A year after plans were introduced to forbid photography, videotaping and filming in subway stations, police and transit officials said a ban is not needed to secure the nation’s largest mass transit […]

Truther Than Strange

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

[EngaTiki Project](http://www.engatiki.org/engatiki) contributor Vanlal submitted the following tidbit of information:
> The word ‘Enga’ in [Mizo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizo) (and probably in related languages) is equivalent to ‘What’ in English.
Sounds about right to me.
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Canadian IPs Don’t Turn Over Filesharers..Yet

Friday, May 20th, 2005

And in our continuing coverage international copywrongs:
Canadian copyfighter [Michael Geist](http://www.michaelgeist.ca/) has posted an interesting recap of yesterday’s Federal Court of Appeal decision in Canada, preventing CIRA (Canadian recording industry group) from forcing ISPs to turn over the names of suspected file swappers. While initially haild as a victory for privacy advocates and […]

Why Corporate Cash Shouldn’t Fund Academic Research

Friday, May 20th, 2005

Coming soon to an [RIAA](http://www.riaa.com/)-funded university near you.
Corey Doctorow has [posted](http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/20/spanish_copyright_so.html) the story of a friend, Spanish copyfighter Jorge Cortell, who was forced out of his teaching position at [Universidad Politécnica de Valencia](http://www.upv.es/menui.html). Yesterday Cory got an email from Jorge, and today Jorge has posted the [English](http://homepage.mac.com/jorgecortell/blogwavestudio/LH20041209105106/LHA20050520091532/index.html). version of his […]

Plus Ça Change…

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

I’m a sucker for eye candy. Of course, after using it for a while I always go back to the old habits: `cd`, `cp`, and `mv` always sneak back into my life for moving around filesystems, shoving aside the shiny alternatives promised by KDE, Gnome, or even Finder. My PIM info–such as it […]

EngaTiki Project Online

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Well, I’ve finally decided to stop tinkering with [EngaTiki](http://www.engatiki.org/engatiki/EngaTiki) (for the moment) and go live with it. It still has a few kinks, but it’s pretty usable and I think it’s time to start letting people get a look at it. at least I have the permission issues worked out, although it meant […]

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