Week of 2001-07-29

Sunday, 2001-07-29 An Echelon BOTEC   7:41:12 pm Ever wondered what percentage of the world's telephone traffic the NSA could intercept?

Week of 2001-07-22

Wednesday, 2001-07-25 Honeypot scam or credit card fraud?   8:20:08 pm A subtle and threatening email arrives from Moscow.

Week of 2001-07-15

Friday, 2001-07-20 O.Henry where are you now?   10:22:15 am The master ironist would go to town on this ancient story set in 21st-century China.

Wednesday, 2001-07-18 Make A Shorter Link   8:29:31 am This new free service makes short work of URLs hundreds or thousands of characters long.

Week of 2001-07-01

Sunday, 2001-07-01 NSI blocking domain name transfers?   12:29:54 pm A stealthy policy change may have resulted in thousands of domains remaining with NSI after their owners had requested a transfer to another registrar.

Month of June, 2001

Sunday, 2001-06-24 A new Siliconium   8:31:21 pm Other regions may not feel as much like emulating Silicon Valley as they once did. Here's a Siliconium for these dot-doom-and-gloom times. Wednesday, 2001-06-06 The StinkyFlowerCam   10:59:49 am The worlds largest and smelliest flower is blooming now -- a rare event -- and its minders have set up a Web cam for it.

Tuesday, 2001-06-05 Jargon Scout: ex-post hoaxo   11:12:14 am A new twist in social engineering is the release of a real virus in the aftermath of a hoax. Friday, 2001-06-01 Directing the strokes of Ockham's razor   7:08:48 pm A physicist rises to my troll on a private mailing list and produces the most cogent essay you're likely to read about the current state of professional thinking on quantum reality.

Week of 2001-04-22

Wednesday, 2001-04-25 Sun's P2P Project Juxtapose going live   9:27:00 am Sun's bid to keep a hand in the Net's peer-to-peer infrastructure will be introduced in a webcast today at 11:00 PDT.

Week of 2001-04-15

Monday, 2001-04-16 Numerologists take note   5:06:31 pm You could probably discover these Unix factoids by decoding the second billion digits of pi. Mailexpire returns   12:38:54 pm The original dispenser of temporary anti-spam email addresses is back, but imitators have cropped up in the interim.

Sunday, 2001-04-15 Trellix to integrate Blogger   10:52:05 pm Dan Bricklin's company makes a deal to use Blogger technology; Pyra's Evan Williams will help. Radio stations shutting off Net streaming   4:26:30 pm The law of unintended consequences bites commercial stations in the aftermath of a two-year-old labor dispute.

Week of 2001-03-25

Sunday, 2001-03-25 UnBlinking: Getting Drilled in a Pristine Area   8:35:58 pm TBTF columnist and uber-researcher Gary Stock turns an unblinking eye on the question of the firing of Ian Thomas, the contractor who posted on a US government Web site wildlife maps of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge in which the Bush administration is determined to drill for oil. Updated 2001-03-29, 10:55 am: Gary has added a thorough second section to the article, exploring the Web-mediated can of worms the USGS opened by the simple act of firing one scientist.

Week of 2001-03-18

Tuesday, 2001-03-20 How meta is it?   10:21:55 pm Disturbing Search Requests is the strangest site you'll visit all week. Just ask Meg.

Week of 2001-03-11

Friday, 2001-03-16 An illegal prime number   3:21:03 pm Write this 1401-digit number in hex and gunzip. Result: DeCSS. New at the Jargon Scout   12:58:33 pm What do you call a dot-com victim of out-of-control VCs?

Week of 2001-03-04

Wednesday, 2001-03-09 Earthquake art   4:43:06 pm Here's one instance in which an earthquake resulted in a net decrease in entropy.

Wednesday, 2001-03-07 European Court of Justice outlaws criticism of EU   11:42:36 am Brussels overruns nine centuries of British common law, and 40 years of EU precedent to boot.

Week of 2001-02-25

Monday, 2001-02-27 When it absolutely, positively must be zapped overnight   11:00:59 am A new non-lethal weapon being developed by the US Marine Corps and Air Force promises to make enemy soldiers "stop in their tracks, turn and flee." Monday, 2001-02-26 A Bell goes south   5:37:54 pm Bellsouth.net's Web email has a gaping new security hole. Perhaps they'll fix it now.

Sunday, 2001-02-25 Let UnBlinking open your eyes   12:34:32 pm TBTF's newest columnist is Gary Stock, in his first essay titled Why the FBI the Internet, discovers some corners of an FBI spy's Net presence not yet reported elsewhere.

Week of 2001-02-18

Thursday, 2001-02-22 Wireless ISP warned   7:34:57 pm A nationwide ISP, operating 802.11b equipment on unlicensed spectrum, was warned to stop interfering with a licensed user of that band. Monday, 2001-02-19 KnowNow makes another high-profile hire   3:39:52 pm The (progressively less) secretive company picks up Matt Haughey, inventor of Metafilter and most recently at Pyra working on Blogger.

Monday (cont.) Weather stations on an iceberg   2:40:05 pm Three automated stations should report for years as this huge iceberg migrates and breaks apart. When is system administration hacking?   10:28:17 am A new law in India threatens to send two Web-hosting entrepreneurs to jail because they shut off a customer's site for nonpayment.

Week of 2001-02-11

Thursday, 2001-02-15 Company profile -- Applied Metacomputing   9:50:03 pm This company provides infrastructure -- an OS for distributed and P2P computing. Microsoft exec: "Linux threatens innovation."   9:30:56 pm Do not read this story if your blood pressure poses any risk to your health. Company profile -- Data Synapse   7:20:08 pm The third of the profiles of distributed-computing companies. Bill Joy's next J   2:22:02 pm Meet Jxta, which Sun hopes will one day be your P2P infrastructure of choice.

Wednesday, 2001-02-14 KnowNow lifts the veil   11:34:09 pm For the first time in public, Rohit Khare talks about the Two-Way Web. Company profile: Parabon   10:14:38 pm Another profile of a company offering monetarized distributed computing. Company profile: Popular Power   5:39:05 pm The first of several profiles of companies offering monetarized distributed computing. Counting computers and predicting the future.   2:04:31 pm How many computers does the world need? From the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference   11:12:02 am Coming to you almost live from San Francisco.

Week of 2001-02-04

Friday, 2001-02-09 Quick Topic introduces Document Review   3:42:22 pm The easiest discussion space adds breakthrough new functionality. And it's still easy.

Monday, 2001-02-05 Just move the Earth   6:53:06 pm Global warming got you down? This solution might worry you more than the problem does. Jargon Scout rides again   5:34:22 pm Visit the TBTF Jargon Scout for five new terms that are just about ready to hatch into the Net's language.

Week of 2001-01-28

Friday, 2001-02-02 Market shares of gTLD registrars   6:44:39 pm How much market share 60 competitors took away from NSI in 2000. Thursday, 2001-02-01 Proposed IRS rule could limit the freedom to link   8:30:18 pm If adopted, this rule could make it inadvisable for any US nonprofit to link to any political site. Hail and farewell, Blogger and Pyra   11:34:38 am Read Evan Williams's account of Pyra's current circumstances and plans. If you've got a heart, you'll be touched. Tuesday, 2001-01-30 Trampling DNS hierarchy underfoot   7:16:41 pm How to make a mockery of the very idea of hierarchical naming.

Monday, 2001-01-29 Leasing rights to your life   11:02:10 pm You didn't imagine you actually owned that domain name, did you? Silly boy. Bad BIND bugs   8:54:05 pm CERT reports recently discovered, serious vulnerabilities in what may be the most widely deployed of Net server software. Unnatural acts   10:03:11 am This is what happens when protocol layering moves beyond baroque and slips into rococo. Sunday, 2001-01-28 In real time   7:10:19 pm A curiously satisfying collection of real-time data about the earth, its environs, and its neighbors.

Week of 2001-01-21

Tuesday, 2001-01-23 Eeevil   9:30:18 am Open Source advocates have long had a home on the Net. Now the evil geniuses bent on world domination have one, too.

Week of 2001-01-14

Friday, 2001-01-19 Light stopped in its tracks   9:47:42 am Now this is flat amazing. Frozen light. Turn on the laser and it starts up again. Thursday, 2001-01-18 Time to dump NSI   9:17:32 am Dotster is offering free domain-name transfers and a one-year extension for $11.95. Run don't walk.

Thursday (cont.) Underground online   7:30:39 am By now everyone knows that the text of Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier is available online. Here are some mirror sites you can actually reach. Wednesday, 2001-01-17 How many horseman?   11:38:51 am Now the Internet economy is being blamed for California's, and the nation's electric power troubles. It's bunkum.

Week of 2001-01-07

Wednesday, 2001-01-10 Memory slag   5:21:18 pm Be afraid when sending MS Word attachments by email. Be very afraid.

Tuesday, 2001-01-09 Much ado about peering   7:04:31 pm You may hear more about UUNet finally publishing its peering specs; but don't make too much of it.