Pure class: one-armed drunk
by Tom | Nov 27, 2001 | General |
| Why Copyright Laws Hurt Culture. Lessig and Barlow on the immense hole in our cultural record left by copyright. 140 years of hole, in some cases. 1:17:30 PM |
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| Firebird. Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names since 1981. Firebird is an opensource community development effort based originally on the code sources of InterBase(r). [frogware weblog] 9:03:30 AM |
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| Dave finds the final link on why the DoJ summarily settled the Microsoft anti-trust case. Here is the government program (that Ashcroft is sponsoring) that will insert spyware on our computers. In order to make this program work, the DoJ needs Microsoft’s suppport. Only Microsoft has the power to automatically insert spyware on millions of computers.
[John Robb’s Radio Weblog (was http://jrobb.userland.com/index.html)] 8:54:30 AM |
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| News.Com: “With Google’s new file-type search tool, a wide array of files formerly overlooked by basic search engine queries are now just a few clicks from the average surfer — or the novice hacker.” Demo. [Scripting News] 8:39:14 AM |
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| The Weekly Standard: “Anyone with an average IQ and an Internet connection can perform the kind of legal research necessary to reach a minimally creditable judgment about the constitutional character of the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism campaign. But a job like this takes more time and mental effort than most of us prefer to expend. So we have come to depend on professional journalists and politicians to do the bulk of it for us. Which is fine — as long as they’re actually doing it.” 8:38:45 AM |
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