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Don Marti | 1 Mar 2002 20:44

Re: point of order, Ogg Vorbis rules...and an experiment

begin  Don Marti quotation of Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:20:26AM -0800:

> begin Jason Costomiris quotation of Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:21:49AM -0500:
> 
> > On the first page, with 10 responses, exactly 0 of them are 
> > burnallgifs.org...
> 
> It's number 36 now; I guess I had my Google form set up to give me
> more results.

burnallgifs.org is now number 11 for a search on "Unisys" (no quotes).
Together, we can make a difference.

Speaking of Unisys, here's Seth on the computer industry CEOs'
letter to Congress regarding SSSCA.  (Personally, I didn't like it
even _before_ I saw Unisys's CEO signed it.)

http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2002-02-28.html

Next time I talk to Darrell Issa I'll ask if he will invite people
from ALA and/or ACM to the House Judiciary Committee's SSSCA hearings
if they happen; no fair letting two wolves and a sheep decide what's
for dinner.

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Seth David Schoen | 1 Mar 2002 22:37

Re: point of order, Ogg Vorbis rules...and an experiment

Don Marti writes:

> Speaking of Unisys, here's Seth on the computer industry CEOs'
> letter to Congress regarding SSSCA.  (Personally, I didn't like it
> even _before_ I saw Unisys's CEO signed it.)
> 
> http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2002-02-28.html

So, there's also some discussion of exactly what Intel had to say.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2764054.htm

http://cryptome.org/sssca-promo.htm#vadasz

(the "#vadasz" anchor may not work)

John Gilmore and I have been exchanging e-mail with Dan Gillmor about
this.  On the one hand, the Intel testimony is _far and away_ the most
radical position yet taken by a major technology company.  It also
expresses skepticism that existing DRM goes too far.

On the other hand, Intel also continues to take the line that
co-operation with the copyright industries on DRM is important;
Intel's testimony seems to vacillate between "Hollywood has no right
to tell us what to do" and "like any responsible company, we are
already doing what Hollywood wants".

I'm tempted to suggest, Don, that you come with us to some CPTWG
meetings.  (I don't know whether _Linux Journal_ would want to pay
for your travel and admission.  We have been struggling with the fact
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Seth David Schoen | 1 Mar 2002 23:14

Re: point of order, Ogg Vorbis rules...and an experiment

Seth David Schoen writes:

> I need to hurry up and write my own "constitutionalization of
> technology law" paper.

That paper title comes from Mark Lemley

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/15_2/lemley/lemley.html

and was the title of a symposium

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/15_2/

which included Lee Tien's "Publishing Software as a Speech Act":

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/15_2/tien/tien.html

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Nick Moffitt | 2 Mar 2002 20:00

ruben's stupid filter

FYI:  http://crackmonkey.org/faq.html#ANSWER43

All those who have been pissed off by this stupid thing, raise your
hands.

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Jeff Waugh | 3 Mar 2002 02:35
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Re: ruben's stupid filter

<quote who="Nick Moffitt">

> All those who have been pissed off by this stupid thing, raise your
> hands.

Were I not in a very small box with the lid shut tightly, I would physically
raise my hand. You'll just have to accept my imaginary raised hand for the
moment.

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Don Marti | 3 Mar 2002 08:05

Re: Non aux brevets logiciels!

More from M. Christian Pierret,  State secretary for Industry.
This time he's telling the Eurocrats what to do with their fatally
flawed directive on patentability of software:

"Constatant que le projet de directive n'apporte aucune des
précisions attendues sur les limites et les exigences de la
brevetabilité, le gouvernement s'inquiète du champ qui pourrait
être ouvert à la brevetabilité de l'ensemble des logiciels voire
des méthodes intellectuelles et commerciales. Or, il est apparu
clairement en France comme en Europe qu'une telle extension est
largement rejetée."

http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/cgi-bin/industrie/sommaire/comm/comm.cgi?COM_ID=1562&_Action=200

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Jason Spence | 6 Mar 2002 09:47

AX.25

So I have a mobile AX.25 packet station now.

Remember when you had a 1200bps modem?  Wasn't it exciting getting
UUCP working and setting up a relay for your buddies?  Or maybe
staying up till 3AM waiting for a wardial to finish and waiting
anxiously as you connected to the first modem on the list?

I have a 1200bps packet TNC hooked up to my 2 meter radio, and I'm
going through the same phase now.  Stuff *works*.  It's slow, but it
works.  The 2.4 kernel has a really solid AX.25 stack and I can keep
it in my head all at once.  It's great being able to see handshaking
taking place and watching the state tables change in intervals that
humans can deal with.

But there's no one to talk to!  I set up a base station at my place in
Fremont, but I can't ping it from more than a few miles away.
Everyone seems to be using real AX.25 instead of IP/AX.25, and that's
no fun.

Why hasn't this taken off?  We live in the most connected place on
earth, and there's strong secondary and tertiary markets to get the
radios, antennas, and TNCs to make it work.  We have the densest
population of Linux hackers anywhere.

Why isn't there anyone else running TCP/IP on their radio?

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Don Marti | 6 Mar 2002 15:48

Re: Local Mountain View. 802.11b coffeehouse.

begin Don Marti quotation of Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:11:47PM -0700:

More reasons to love Dana St. Roasting Co.: http://live.com/danastreet/

  Does the network support IPv6, as well as IPv4?

  Yes. The network has full IPv6 connectivity (using "6to4"), so if you
  have an IPv6 client that implements "Neighbor Discovery" (the IPv6
  equivalent to DHCP), you will be able to get an address. In fact, the
  wireless network has been assigned a /64 subnet, which is enough IPv6
  address space to give each square micron of the coffeee shop 100,000
  addresses!

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Don Marti | 6 Mar 2002 15:57

Re: A modest proposal to web designers of the world (was Re: Site feedback: fonts too small)

The Mozilla pref to specify minimum font size has changed from

OLD > user_pref("font.min-size.variable.x-western", 10);
OLD > user_pref("font.min-size.fixed.x-western", 10);

to 

user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 13);

The new version seems to work reliably.

More info on the customizing page and the bug report page:
   http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html.)
   http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30910 

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Karsten M. Self | 6 Mar 2002 17:43
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Re: A modest proposal to web designers of the world (was Re: Site feedback: fonts too small)

on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Don Marti (dmarti <at> zgp.org) wrote:
> The Mozilla pref to specify minimum font size has changed from
> 
> OLD > user_pref("font.min-size.variable.x-western", 10);
> OLD > user_pref("font.min-size.fixed.x-western", 10);
> 
> to 
> 
> user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 13);
> 
> The new version seems to work reliably.
> 
> More info on the customizing page and the bug report page:
>    http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html.)
>    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30910 

Better:  use the CSS-2 spec $DEITY provided you to override all font
preferences with sane defaults of your own choosing:

    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/userContent.css

Sample webpage before and after:

Before:    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/test.html
After:     http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/test-css.html

The stylesheet is tested with Galeon and Mozilla.  It should work with
other browsers.  It's copiously commented.

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