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Salon Premium has an article today about a last minute blockade of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which includes outrageous mandates things like a ban on forced marriage and full legal and property rights for women. The treaty has already been signed by 169 countries, and awaits [...]

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Zimran makes the obvious but necessary point that a government committee can’t possibly set a fair price for broadcasting songs over the Internet, or anything else, really. Didn’t we learn this from nearly every failed economy in the twentieth century? Let the Web radio folks negotiate deals with the people they want the [...]

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Newsweek has an article on Microsoft’s new security architecture for their operating system, Palladium. It sounds like an amalgam of public key encryption, digital rights management, and security implemented in hardware. A lot of this stuff is well known and well understood, but it remains to be seen how it will all work together in [...]

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The bill the administration drafted that would create the Department of Homeland Security also eliminates the protection normally accorded whistleblowers and exempts the new department from the Freedom of Information Act, according to this Washington Times article. I don’t think I need to rant about just how stupid that is. (Via Talking Points Memo.)

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The New York Times has an article today on L’Effroyable Imposture, the book by French author Thierry Messyan, that claims that the 9/11 attacks were perpetrated by American right wingers who wanted to manufacture wars in the Middle East for the purpose of getting at oil reserves. The book has sold very well [...]

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When Sun came up with JSPs, it was pretty obvious that they were a Java-centric takeoff on Microsoft’s ASP. Reading this migration guide for users moving from ASP to ASP.NET, it looks like Microsoft is stealing many of the good ideas from JSP and putting them into ASP.NET. Isn’t competition a wonderful thing?

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This is news only because I find it so odd. Both Adobe and Macromedia are taking a pass on MacWorld in New York this summer. Granted, neither of those companies really need to evangelize those products to the Mac community, but it’s still strange to see major players like that blow off that show.

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Everything looked good for webcasters when CARP threw out their proposed rate structure that would basically put an end to webcasting. Unfortunately, the new rates they’ve come up with will still put many webcasters out of business. I guess people will just have to download exactly the songs they want to hear from [...]

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If you’re running Apache, you probably need to install the latest version, because there’s a big exploitable hole in all but the most recent versions of Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.0 on all platforms.

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I finally got my first Amazon Gold Box. Unfortunately, I was offered a garlic press, a vacuum cleaner, a rapid wine chiller, a fancy corkscrew, and a bread maker. Why not a nice La Creuset pan or a cool set of headphones? Oh well, even though I wasn’t offered anything I wanted, I [...]

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