Senate Democrats to introduce bill mandating Web privacy standards
“Hollings primarily wants consumers to be given more access ot personal information that companies hold on them…”
It is about time. If this goes through it will be a step in the right direction, but more will need to follow.
Regarding Gnutella Richard Stallman speaks
“No matter what sort of published information is being shared, we urge people to reject the assumption that some
person or company has a natural right to prohibit sharing and dictate exactly how the public can use it. Even the US legal
system nominally rejects that anti-social idea.”
Perl For Zope
I hope it is true.
THE REGISTER: BabeWatch at Internet World
“Dawning as it did that there was no news to be had at the show (and even if there was, most stallholders wouldn’t know what their product was), it seemed only right to tell readers how to get the most out of the show.
That’s our justification anyway for giving you a rundown on the Show Bunnies dotted around the floor.”
HostSearch.com
Search for the web hosting providers. Cool utility, but they do have tons of animated gifs on the pages.
At The Crossroads by JohnKatz
“As a society, we can try to make cyberspace conform to the rules of physical space. Or we can recognize the extraordinary potential of this new culture, and invest cyberspace with laws and values and properties that are fundamentally different.”
Embrace change or live in the past. I choose chage.
THE REGISTER: Linux is more popular than sex
“There were 11,313,520 Web pages found for the Linux search but only 10,755,265 found for Windows.
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When he put the word sex into the AltaVista search engine, only 9,589,620 were found.”
Joel on Software Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems
“The idea of advertising is to lie without getting caught.
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You should be starting to get some ideas about how to break the chicken and egg problem: provide a backwards compatibility mode which either delivers a truckload of chickens, or a truckload of eggs, depending on how you look at it, and sit back and rake in the bucks.”
WINE is the key. Also, the same reason that Perl and Python NEED to be in Mozilla to get onto every desktop. I bet Perl being on almost all UNIX boxes at the dawn of the web made Perl the defacto standard for CGIs.