Haiku’da Been a Spam Filter. A new spam-filtering service uses a unique method to halt the flow of the horrid stuff: a hidden scrap of copyrighted poetry. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.. "I
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.. “I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends…that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” [Quotes of the Day]
When I went out for
When I went out for lunch I stopped at the used record store & picked up “Puritan Vodou” by RAM for $5. I love this CD – I expected something like Boukman Eksperyans but this is more like pop music with a Haitian flavor & a bit of Reggae mixed in.
I confirmed that my Cisco
I confirmed that my Cisco Aironet 350 card doesn’t work with Jaguar, as reported in MacFixit. I installed Jaguar on a separate partition on my G3 and re-installed the Cisco driver & utilities on that partition. When I ran the Aironet utility, it wouldn’t recognize the card. It looks like I won’t be running Jaguar on that machine until Cisco releases new drivers. I was really looking forward to using that machine as a print server under Jaguar.
"Justin" told me the copy
“Justin” told me the copy of 10.2 that came with his new G4 is slightly different than the developer seed version. Even though it’s still build 6C115, some of the file dates & sizes are different.
Morons in the News: Two
Morons in the News: Two More Arrests in Miami for Vote Fraud. Two more have been arrested in Miami, including the head of the Miami Christian Coalition, in connection with Take Back Miami Dade’s attempt at vote fraud… [Morons Dot Org]
Isn’t it interesting that the Religious Right had to resort to forged signatures to get their petition on the ballot. Too bad I don’t live in Miami-Dade county so I could vote against it.Reuters. Music labels are pushing
Reuters. Music labels are pushing to censor access to Web sites (via Michael). This is another VERY bad idea. Checking my ISP (Verizon), and it looks like it is already blocked….
I’m using AT&T Broadband I was able to access it last night, but now I get “no web site is configured at this address”. However, I can still go directly to http://www.lmp3.net/ which that site redirected to.The world’s largest record companies sued major Internet service and network providers on Friday, alleging their routing systems allow users to access the China-based Listen4ever.com Web site and unlawfully copy musical recordings.
MP3s are good for music
MP3s are good for music biz – Forrester. Pigopolists should monetize P2P networks [The Register]
Forrester Research has surveyed a thousand music customers and concludes that MP3 downloads are good for the music business. Twenty per cent of those surveyed – two groups Forrester describes as “music lovers and music learners” – buy 36 per cent of CDs, and these enthusiastic downloaders said MP3s had no effect on their CD purchasing. “The idea that digital music is responsible for slump is completely false,” concludes Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff. Forrester attributes the 15 per cent slump in music sales to a number of other factors. The economy is in a slump, there’s much more competition from games, from DVDs – which saw an 80 per cent rise in sales – and most interestingly – from the “limited playlists” rotated by commercial US radio stations. Forrester notes that one company, ClearChannel controls 60 per cent of radio, so new artists don’t get the opportunity to be heard.I’ve discovered some new artists – and bought their CDs – thanks to Napster. I would do a search for an artist I like, and when I found someone who had a lot of that artist’s music, I would browse that user’s library. That’s how I discovered Senegalese singer Alioune Mbaye Nder & le Setsima Group and bought his CD. I’ve also bought CDs by Los Van Van, Capercaillie, The Pogues, and a few others after downloading their music.
Senator decries rising tide of
Senator decries rising tide of lost laptops. Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley says that missing computers may be the federal government’s equivalent of lost socks. [CNET News.com]
They should be using ComputracePlus.An action alert from the
An action alert from the interfaith alliance
In a stunning backroom political maneuver that could hand the Religious Right lobby their biggest win in years, Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) reached an agreement with the House leadership to allow him to bring the ãHouses of Worship Political Speech Protection Actä, H.R. 2357, directly to the House floor for a vote. The vote is expected within days of the House returning from their August recess. Caving to the demands of the Religious Right, Jones and the GOP leadership, three of whom are sponsors of the bill, have chosen to bypass the committee process by scheduling the bill for a vote under suspension of the rules in early September. Due to legal and ethical concerns, as well as widespread opposition to the bill from religious and faith-based organizations, the influential House Ways & Means Committee had held the Jones bill in limbo for nearly a year, refusing to schedule the bill for a committee vote. With 128 co-sponsors to date, the threat of the Jones bill receiving the required two-thirds vote of those present on the House floor is very real. Senators Bob Smith, Jesse Helms and Tim Hutchinson also recently introduced companion legislation in the Senate. Crafted by attorneys from Pat Robertsonâs American Center for Law and Justice, H.R. 2357 would radically alter the tax code by allowing houses of worship to endorse political candidates, lobby for legislation, create political action committees (PACs) and funnel political donations to partisan political causes and candidates. Currently, houses of worship have an Îabsolute prohibitionâ on partisan political activities. Despite the rhetoric surrounding this legislation, however, there is nothing in current law that prohibits houses of worship from speaking to issues of the day. TIA (The Interfaith Alliance) supporters are urged to use our Interfaith Action Center to send an email to their member of Congress alerting them to the upcoming floor vote and asking them to stand up for religious liberty and the integrity of houses of worship by voting no on H.R. 2357. Your action on this bill today is more important than ever. We also urge you to use the ãTell-a-Friendä option to spread this alert to as many allies as possible. The Christian Coalition, Concerned Women for America and Coral Ridge Ministries are all working together to pass H.R. 2357. To date, they claim to have collected nearly 100,000 petitions in favor of the bill. Your actions today could not be more important to the defense of religious liberty and the separation of church and state! To see sample letters-to-the-editor, please visit: