This article was originally spurred by the generally negative portrayal of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the novel Digital Fortress. As a long-standing fan and member of the EFF, I must admit that I was more than a little taken aback at some of the characterizations of the organization. The members of [...]
I just finished reading the novel Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. With the recent release of the DaVinci Code, several of my co-workers have been re-reading Brown’s novels, and as I’d already read both The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, one of them loaned me a copy of his earlier novel. I [...]
Wouldn’t life be grand if you could go to Congress and get a law passed that forced everyone in the nation to pay you money? That’s exactly what the RIAA/MPAA are doing at this very moment, under the guise of “fighting piracy”.
First on their list is getting the broadcast flag reinstated, after it was [...]
This is a response that I wrote on a friend’s message board regarding the MGM v. Grokster case, which was decided in favor of MGM in a shocking 9-0 vote by the Supreme Court. Effectively, they hold Grokster (and by extension any other Peer-to-Peer software manufacturer) responsible for the illegal actions perpetrated by their [...]
I’m doing my first real editing with Vi, which is a different experience to say the least. I still need a lot of practice, so I’m not quite as fast were I still using TextPad, but I fully expect to get much faster in time.
My spare time has basically been filled reading everything I can [...]