Bitbucket March 2000
CryptoMe
John Young, all-around swell guy, prose stylist extraordinaire, and diligent maintainer of the remarkable cryptome.org archive of anti-authoritarian essentials, has been ramping up his efforts. He recently (and quietly) launched a mailing list for daily announcements of new items on the site. At just one short mail each day, you definitely won't regret subscribing.
New Lows in Low-orbit Space Junk
Boeing accidentally threw out some space-station parts. And Iridium announced that unless some suck^W "white knight" buys it out before the Ides of March, its wacky WW2-like phon^W paperweights would start showing up on Ebay. Also sprach Motorola, without the slightest hint of irony:
"[We are] attempting to directly contact all [our] direct end user customers who subscribe to Iridium service through a Motorola-owned Service Provider as quickly as possible to inform them about the current status of Iridium service availability."
RealWitty
Sysops around the world rejoiced when they heard about RealWeasel, an ISA card that redirects and munges video output and keyboard input through an RS-232 port. Posh geekiness aside, this makes it much, much easier to run a "headless"--that is, monitorless--server remotely. Sure, Slashdot and everyone else in the world has already written this one up. But we wanted to take a moment to commend the RealWeasel marketing department for their visualization skills.
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Computergraphic of the year? |
Still Digging!
Some scurrilous sort buried the DeCSS source code in a DNS record. If you have access to a unix shell, try it...
dig @138.195.138.195 goret.org. axfr |
grep '^c..\..*A' |
sort |
cut -b5-36 |
perl -e 'while(<>){print pack("H32",$_)}' |
gzip -d
...if only because doing so caches it in your local nameserver. Make sure to let the MPAA know about the copy of DeCSS you just, uh, found when you were digging around.
ICANN't Bear Stupid People
We've already documented the ruthless accuracy of ICANN's "real-time scribe" elsewhere, so we can only wonder what Esther Dyson must have said to cause their resident Objectivist to jot down this gem from the 9 March Public Forum at the ICANN meeting in Cairo: "I am concerned about capture by the people who don't know what they are doing. People who are stupid individually." As opposed to capture by people who are stupid collectively? Or capture by people who do know what they're doing? (OK: What are they doing?) Actually, we could watch see what she said (it's on video), but we know better: we sat through the L.A. ICANN meeting in November. And watched it all over again on RealWhatever. Now it's your turn.
And ICANN't Bearthe Thought of Leaving
In a notable development from Cairo, the ICANN board succumbed to a broad consensus that its hastily drawn-up scheme for installing quisling representatives of the Membership At-Large (MAL) - the body for Lusers Like Us (hence the ominously AOLesque server "members.icann.org") - were too "transparent." Instead, they agreed to allow five of the nine MAL reps to be elected directly in a first election, and then to study whether that process would be acceptable for electing the remaining four MAL slots on the board. The payback? This two-stage approach manufactures a temporary scarcity on the ICANN board, the obvious solution to which is - surprise! - to extend the terms of some current board members. Dyson said (according to the scribe), the "One of our initial principles was that we'd leave by September 30. Tone has changed now, and I think we're responding now to current public demand to stick around." Our source rendered it thus: "Although the terms of the initial board members are set to expire at the end of September, we are hearing that people want us to stick around." Presumably, people who (vocally) never wanted them around to begin with (let alone now) are individually stupid.
Bitbucket - Data In Hopeless Turmoil
Bitbucket March 2000
Bitbucket Nr.1 (last Millennium)
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