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Week of 2000-12-10

Thursday, 2000-12-14 No baking allowed   3:13:25 pm How far will holders of intellectual property overreach in their claims before a balance with fair use is re-established?

Week of 2000-11-26

Tuesday, 2000-11-28 Backhoe fade at sea   10:48:43 am

Week of 2000-11-12

Wednesday, 2000-11-15 Congressmen to ICANN: Full stop   9:00:00 pm

Friday, 2000-11-10 At ICANN   8:15:13 pm

Week of 2000-11-05

Wednesday, 2000-11-08 New at the Jargon Scout: bone transfer   4:05:18 pm If Bush wins, Nader will have cost Gore the election   3:01:30 pm

Monday 2000-11-06 South Africa claims a trademark in its name   11:14:55 am Gates disses digital philanthropy   10:56:15 am Instant addiction   10:07:41 am

Week of 2000-10-29

Monday 2000-10-30 Irregular moons   12:00:58 pm

Week of 2000-10-22

Thursday 2000-10-26 Antimatter --> fission --> fusion   11:09:48 pm Lower-level domain names as speech   11:33:08 am Tuesday 2000-10-24 Ray Ozzie's Groove   9:50:11 am

Monday 2000-10-23 Using DNS to fax (almost) anywhere   3:30:31 pm

Week of 2000-10-15

Saturday 2000-10-21 IETF issues RFC on cookies   11:49:14 pm Thursday 2000-10-19 Downside: cash is king   5:12:07 pm

Wednesday 2000-10-18 Bacteria revived after 250M years   9:44:44 pm Stolen Enigma turns up   9:38:34 am Monday 2000-10-16 MS Linux -- get it quick   9:27:22 am

Week of 2000-10-08

Thursday 2000-10-12 Some ICANN election stats   10:14:27 pm Microsoft using Corel to ease into Linux?   11:13:58 am Tuesday 2000-10-10 Froomkin calls ICANN legitimacy into question   8:21:40 pm

Tuesday (cont.) ICANN: the vote   8:03:59 pm Sunday 2000-10-08 ICANN: the North American candidates   8:25:03 pm

Week of 2000-10-01

Friday 2000-10-06 Need a Cisco lab -- cheap?   7:28:19 pm Ransom for stolen Enigma machine agreed   11:06:10 am

Monday 2000-10-02 Hypertext, Narrative, Image, Flash   11:50:31 am ICANN-didates' Q&A, debate today at Harvard Law   12:54:22 pm

Week of 2000-09-24

Saturday 2000-09-30 ICANN has given IANA permission to delegate the .EU top-level domain   9:37:07 am Thursday 2000-09-28 Cellular computation   3:14:31 pm Quantum lithography   11:10:15 am

Monday 2000-09-25 The wraps come off of XNS   8:46:34 am

Week of 2000-09-17

Tuesday 2000-09-19 A legacy of the Red Menace   11:37:06 am

Week of 2000-09-10

Friday 2000-09-15 Author of The Anarchist Cookbook wants it pulled   10:15:47 am Wednesday 2000-09-13 Board votes to allow software patents in Europe   1:37:44 pm EPIC resigns from Amazon Associates   1:04:38 pm

Tuesday 2000-09-12 Wireless bootstrap into the 21st century   11:50:55 am Sunday 2000-09-10 US again rushing toward "know your customer" invasive banking laws   3:23:13 pm

Weeks of 2000-08-20 and 09-03

Saturday 2000-09-09 ICANN-didates are in place   10:52:57 pm Wednesday 2000-09-06 ICANN elections and endorsements   1:08:44 pm RSA releases encryption algorithm into the public domain   12:17:44 pm

Wednesday (cont.) Carnivore review is DOA   10:20:25 am Thursday 2000-08-24 Some people listen to music while coding   3:03:49 pm

Week of 2000-08-13

Thursday, 2000-08-17 177,489 flags   5:54:55 pm 1/137   3:27:06 pm Partial victory for CALEA foes could tame Carnivore   10:47:47 am Microsoft porting applications to Linux?   7:33:55 am Tuesday, 2000-08-15 Catching gravity waves by quantum encryption   7:16:33 pm A new rush on domain names   3:56:12 pm

Tuesday (cont.) ICANNt   3:32:04 pm Monday, 2000-08-14 In yer face 24/7   7:01:58 pm Sunday, 2000-08-13 A geek's guide to the presidential candidates   5:16:53 pm Military censorware blocks science experiment   3:58:31 pm

Week of 2000-08-06

Saturday, 2000-08-12 Amazon to sell cars online?   11:36:23 am Monday, 2000-08-07 Illiterate? Write for free help   3:12:12 pm

Sunday, 2000-08-06 Making your day a little wierder   3:12:12 pm

Week of 2000-07-30

Saturday, 2000-08-05 The rat who wired schools   10:44:52 am Friday, 2000-08-04 Brown Orifice reveals major holes in Java, Netscape   10:52:18 pm Wednesday, 2000-08-02 ShareZilla: peer-to-peer spam   6:14:42 pm

Tuesday, 2000-08-01 A stitch in crime   5:26:21 pm Sunday, 2000-07-30 Netscape SmartDownload uses Real/NetZip spyware   9:00:29 pm

Week of 2000-07-23

Saturday, 2000-07-29 A new patent threatens Web syndication   9:13:07 pm Friday, 2000-07-28 Coiner of the term "software" dies   1:05:13 pm "Safe Harbor" is OK with the EU after all   8:28:53 am Thursday, 2000-07-27 ICANNthrope   11:38:31 am Semi-anonymous sites simplify email mischief   11:13:18 am

Wednesday, 2000-07-26 Privacy hunter Richard Smith gets backing   8:14:31 am Tuesday, 2000-07-25 Is Microsoft's .NET 100% vapor?   12:41:40 pm Monday, 2000-07-24 The roving_reporter returns   8:40:42 pm ICANN: a failed experiment?   8:30:54 pm

Week of 2000-07-16

Saturday, 2000-07-22 ePrompter does the job   6:22:46 pm Thursday, 2000-07-20 Frankenglowenmice   7:58:42 am Wednesday, 2000-07-19 The CARROT and the STIC   6:39:52 pm

Tuesday, 2000-07-18 Get your NY Times bestseller lists a week early   1:08:35 pm Monday, 2000-07-17 ICANN votes for new top-level domains   8:22:32 am Sunday, 2000-07-16 Text messaging in modern warfare   6:41:20 pm Magnetoresistive microscope may recover erased data   12:58:49 pm

Week of 2000-07-09

Saturday, 2000-07-15 Scour caught living up to its name   8:33:24 am Friday, 2000-07-14 German proposal to tax Internet use at work   2:36:21 pm Earthlink refuses to install FBI's Carnivore   11:51:44 am A real potato-powered server   10:00:52 am Britain clamping down on HavenCo   8:37:20 am

Thursday, 2000-07-13 The View from Softpro   3:45:50 pm Wednesday, 2000-07-12 Small ISPs abandoning the UK over surveillance bill   6:39:39 pm Sunday, 2000-07-09 AOL sued over SmartDownload snooping   6:16:20 pm

Week of 2000-07-02

Friday, 2000-07-07 Bland GAO report on ICANN issued   3:44:08 pm New at Jargon Scout: glocalization   10:53:05 am Tuesday, 2000-07-04 Lloyd Wood's Jaundiced Eye on Richard Stallman   4:54:34 pm

Sunday, 2000-07-02 Russian company patents the bottle   1:11:39 pm

Week of 2000-06-25

Friday, 2000-06-30 HavenCo / Sealand harassment begins   3:17:12 pm

Wednesday, 2000-06-28 Oracle admits hiring private eye against Microsoft   8:30:22 am

Week of 2000-06-18

Sunday, 2000-06-18 Infecting yourself   10:47:45 pm

Sunday (cont.) What would you like to do?   10:12:19 pm

Week of 2000-06-11

Saturday, 2000-06-17 Key Ghost: a paranoid's nightmare   9:41:18 pm Friday, 2000-06-16 Cash for Microsoft's trash   4:22:42 pm Sense on domain naming   11:58:17 am

Thursday, 2000-06-15 Takin' names ('n' sellin' 'em)   4:18:24 pm Sunday, 2000-06-11 Intel strong-arms Harvard to hide iMacs   7:02:05 pm

Week of 2000-06-04

Monday, 2000-06-05 Free speech 1, privacy 0   4:24:41 pm

Week of 2000-05-28

Friday, 2000-06-02 A welcome asset   3:33:19 pm Jargon Scout: C2C, beltware, geek keys   5:01:39 pm

Thursday, 2000-06-01 Domain name hijacking, laundering   7:28:09 pm 10 new Siliconia   4:09:53 pm

Week of 2000-05-21

Week of 2000-05-14

Saturday, 2000-05-20 Should you register to vote in ICANN's board elections?   5:41:49 pm Friday, 2000-05-19 ICANN unilaterally invoicing ccTLDs.   8:40:16 pm Real / NetZip "Download Demon" is spyware.   5:33:53 pm

Wednesday, 2000-05-17 404 found.   4:11:30 pm Monday, 2000-05-15 Bughunters been busy.   2:09:52 pm

Week of 2000-05-07

Tuesday, 2000-05-09 A worm by any other name.   5:57:13 pm Monday, 2000-05-08 Procmail detour for all .VBS viruses.   10:57:06 am

Sunday, 2000-05-07 Simple Registry fix for all .VBS viruses.   5:01:31 pm

Weeks of 2000-04-23, 2000-04-30

Thursday, 2000-05-04 Government alleges new anticompetitive moves by Microsoft.   7:29:21 pm The VBS/LoveLet.A worm.   11:35:16 am Iridium: couldn't have said it better.   9:11:52 am Tuesday, 2000-05-02 New Siliconium: Bit Valley.   2:32:43 pm

Monday, 2000-05-01 GPS gets more accurate at midnight.   2:32:43 pm Sunday, 2000-04-30 ssleay.org no longer a trusted source.   2:32:43 pm Monday, 2000-04-24 Anti-trust wallpaper.   5:52:31 pm Interesting times (IP and the law).   12:24:26 pm Jamming satcomms on the cheap.   11:12:16 am

Week of 2000-04-16

Friday, 2000-04-21 eGroups eats customer data, is unresponsive   10:59:51 am Privacy invasion built into the Net's bones   10:29:44 am Thursday, 2000-04-20 A well anarchized telecom infrastructure   2:33:44 pm Wednesday, 2000-04-19 The JavaScript-in-cookies security hole   3:38:45 pm

Tuesday, 2000-04-18 It's jargon time again   11:45:06 am Monday, 2000-04-17 NoWeDontHaveaWebSite.com   2:30:41 pm Sunday, 2000-04-16 Fiber bites backhoes (and cars)   2:32:42 pm

Weeks of 2000-04-02, 2000-04-09

Friday, 2000-04-14 Process Tree to merge with dCypher.net   4:44:56 pm Wednesday, 2000-04-12 SSA an anonymous remailer?   4:40:07 pm

Wednesday (cont.) Dow Jones to launch bandwidth index.   3:57:58 pm Sunday, 2000-04-02 Three more from the Jargon Scout: bizmeth, undernet, and post-economic   5:19:29 pm

Week of 2000-03-26

Thursday, 2000-03-30 Demon Internet settles Usenet libel case 9:49:51 am Tuesday, 2000-03-28 Interview with the search engine 1:14:02 pm

Tuesday (cont.) Mattel undone by CPHack GPL? 11:19:39 am Sunday, 2000-03-26 "Loopholes" menu opens up DVDs 11:32:47 pm

Week of 2000-03-19

Friday, 2000-03-24 Jargon Scout: spampoena. 5:41:03 pm NSA holds patent on holographic storage device. 10:41:06 am Thursday, 2000-03-23 Free domain names, sometimes with a catch. 4:37:38 pm Scoop: ACLU to defend the Peacefire Three. 12:03:30 pm Unknown objects emitting gamma rays. 11:32:00 am

Wednesday, 2000-03-22 IANA approves .ps for Palestine. 9:47:14 pm First country-code domain name dispute. 9:36:12 pm 3.28 terabits over fiber. 9:35:09 pm Monday, 2000-03-20 Coding as spectator sport: the MATLAB contest. 7:34:10 pm Three from the Jargon Scout: packet karma, laganoia, component service provider. 12:02:41 am

Week of 2000-03-12

Thursday, 2000-03-16 Common sense on Amazon and patents. 11:53:53 am Distributing DeCSS via DNS. 11:21:12 am Iridium is toast? 10:42:17 am Tuesday, 2000-03-14 Advertising on the 404 page. 10:26:46 pm

Monday, 2000-03-13 Patent tells spooks how to snoop. 10:26:46 pm Sunday, 2000-03-12 Navajo Code Talker GI Joe. 8:49:29 pm

Week of 2000-03-05

Thursday, 2000-03-09 "...shatters the last-mile bottleneck into shards of light." 12:41:48 pm Domain-name arbitor with a conflict of interest? 11:43:10 am Amazon patent developments. 10:57:58 am

Tuesday, 2000-03-07 Sprint PCS leaks your cell number when you surf. 9:25:52 pm Crash Windows now. 10:47:45 am

Week of 2000-02-27

Friday, 2000-03-03 Geek Pride Festival: April 1, Boston, MA, US. 3:54:24 pm Thursday, 2000-03-02 DoubleClick climbs down. 11:08:04 pm

Thursday (cont.) Two surveys. 12:44:15 pm Monday, 2000-02-28 Amazon takes a step too far. 10:43:28 am

Week of 2000-02-20

Saturday, 2000-02-26 Too quiet, White Man. 12:49:04 pm

Sunday, 2000-02-20 A spam magnet. 2:33:50 pm

Week of 2000-02-13

Saturday, 2000-02-19 WIMP in a teacup. 1:47:59 pm Friday, 2000-02-18 Bang explained. 11:50:49 am Wednesday, 2000-02-16 Telemarketing to domain-name holders. 1:09:54 pm

Tuesday, 2000-02-15 TBTF named to Forbes Magazine's Best of the Web. 12:59:37 pm Sunday, 2000-02-13 NASA gets a Valentine from Mars, another from Eros 433. 10:43:47 am

Week of 2000-02-06

Saturday, 2000-02-12 AOL dropping the fight for open access. 10:09:21 pm Friday, 2000-02-11 Bang. 4:05:05 pm Thursday, 2000-02-10 How not to run a road show. 4:36:17 pm Personal home computers searched in labor dispute. 4:00:58 pm

Thursday (cont.) Sniffing whois requests and registering before you do. 3:07:35 pm Tuesday, 2000-02-08 Please no Valentines Day jokes. 4:53:06 pm Monday, 2000-02-07 Unsealed files from the Microsoft - Caldera trial are suggestive. 4:21:45 pm

Week of 2000-01-30

Saturday, 2000-02-05 Trouble right here in Cach, Illinois. 5:27:59 pm Thursday, 2000-02-03 VA Linux to buy Andover.net. 12:46:11 pm Wednesday, 2000-02-02 Grokking it. 2:14:24 pm

Wednesday (cont.) DoJ drops NSI investigation. 1:14:58 pm Unclear on the concept (Internet time). 12:55:51 pm Monday, 2000-01-31 Robot labor gangs. 11:00:54 pm Poet Laureate of Internet commerce. 10:04:06 am

Week of 2000-01-23

Wednesday, 2000-01-26 An interactive "ego-net" of the industry 2:43:19 pm How big is the Web today? 11:26:55 am Tuesday, 2000-01-25 etoy wins the war. 8:57:52 pm

Monday, 2000-01-24 FTC names 40 to a privacy/security committee. 5:27:06 pm Sunday, 2000-01-23 Registrars now accepting long domain names. 10:49:32 pm

Week of 2000-01-16

Saturday, 2000-01-22 OK, just one two more about Transmeta. 11:51:44 pm Thursday, 2000-01-20 Siliconia run amok: a dot-com town. 3:53:11 pm Wednesday, 2000-01-19 Last Transmeta post, I promise. 9:59:16 pm Transmeta details. 2:52:55 pm

Wednesday (cont.) Transmeta's announcement in realtime. 12:42:26 pm Attack on "dining cryptographer" protocol. 12:14:08 pm Transmeta's secret will out today. 11:15:50 am Sunday, 2000-01-16 NBC fuming at CBS's virtual logo theft. 6:01:31 pm

Week of 2000-01-09

Friday, 2000-01-14 Chandra dazzles, Hubble boggles. 8:38:11 am Thursday, 2000-01-13 Domain name registration for $19.95/year 7:21:52 pm Fundamental Research at the [Bio:Info:Micro] Interface 3:26:27 pm Four years of the X-ray sky 2:56:15 pm Wrongfooting spambots with Blackflag 1:35:50 pm AntiOnline fingers credit-card thief "Maxus." 9:19:20 am

Wednesday, 2000-01-12 Loosened crypto export regs coming. 11:59:20 pm States may not sell driver's license data. 4:56:45 pm Monday, 2000-01-10 Internet Freedom Journalism Awards winners announced. Russian cracker posts 300K credit-card numbers. 9:27:58 am

Week of 2000-01-02

Saturday, 2000-01-08 Bay Area law firms are "hemorrhaging" associates. 7:18:22 am Thursday, 2000-01-06 ICANN recalls hundreds of domain names. 11:20:56 am

Sunday, 2000-01-02 User-induced hardware footshots. 2:18:20 pm