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Fwd: if there’s ever a Nuerenberg trial for food crimes, here’s a candidate….

September 24, 2003

Begin forwarded message: > From: “Meltsner, Kenneth” > Date: Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:18:04 PM US/Pacific > To: > Subject: if there’s ever a Nuerenberg trial for food crimes, here’s a > candidate…. > > I’m appalled, and I’m living in Wisconsin — I thought nothing could > surprise me in the fried/cheese-bearing foods category… [...]

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Verisign’s Domain Redirects

September 23, 2003

Begin forwarded message: > From: Jeffrey Kay > Date: Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:20:55 AM US/Pacific > To: FoRK > Subject: Verisign’s Domain Redirects > > Seems like DNS is in trouble yet again. This is a pretty interesting > issue. > One could argue that managing a root gTLD server is a public trust [...]

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Putting A Lid on Broadband..

September 22, 2003

http://news.com.com/2100-1034-5079624.html Putting a lid on broadband use By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-1034-5079624.html Earlier this month, a Philadelphia Comcast broadband subscriber got a letter from his service provider, telling him he’d been using the Internet too much. Keith, who asked to keep his full name private, said he’d subscribed to the service for [...]

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Waiting For Spielberg..

September 20, 2003

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/magazine/magazinespecial/ MFMERHANT.html September 21, 2003 Waiting For Spielberg By MATTHEW ROSE Unlike most urban legends, the one about the Iranian exile stuck at the Paris airport for 15 years is true. Surrounded by a mountain of his possessions near the Paris Bye Bye lounge at Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Merhan Karimi [...]

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Richard Forno article on “high tech heroin”

September 19, 2003

Begin forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:01:30 -0400 > Subject: Article: High-Tech Heroin > From: Richard Forno > > High-Tech Heroin > Richard Forno > > (c) 2003 by Author. All Rights Reserved. > Permission granted to redistribute this article in its entirety with > credit > to author. > > Dostoevsky [...]

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Time Warner Shedding AOL Clothes…

September 18, 2003

As predicted, Time Warner is attempting to divest itself of the AOL nightmare. After writing down AOL’s entire pre-deal capitalization, thus effectively declaring the unit that purchased the Old Media company worthless, the latest steps have been to drop the brand and the stock ticker symbol. Don’t get me wrong — it’s not that AOL [...]

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Time Warner Sues Apt. Over Wireless Theft

September 18, 2003

Begin forwarded message: > From: Tom > Date: Wed Sep 17, 2003 9:08:13 PM US/Pacific > To: fork [at] xent [dot] com > Subject: Time Warner Sues Apt. Over Wireless Theft > > > Time Warner Sues Apt. Over Wireless Theft > By Harry Berkowitz > Staff Writer > > September 15, 2003, 7:00 PM [...]

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SBC Won’t Name Names in File-Sharing Cases

September 17, 2003

*As proof that market dynamics can influence lawmaking, SBC has fallen into step with Verizon in putting up roadblocks to stop the RIAA’s maniacal tirade against P2P. The quote that says it all? * “We are going to challenge every single one of these that they file until we are told that our position is [...]

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Verisign’s At It Again..

September 17, 2003

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19860-2003Sep16.html washingtonpost.com Software Aimed at Blocking VeriSign’s Search Program By Anick Jesdanun AP Internet Writer Tuesday, September 16, 2003; 4:00 PM NEW YORK — The developer of software that essentially guides Web surfers sought Tuesday to neutralize a controversial service designed to help users who mistype Internet addresses. The Internet Software Consortium, the nonprofit organization [...]

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Insecurity Amid Massive Security Spending..

September 16, 2003

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,1261487,00.asp September 10, 2003 A Letter to President Bush By  Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Dear President Bush: You probably don’t know Joel Phagoo. He is a 21-year-old college student who decided to go fishing in New York’s Jamaica Bay with his kid brother and a cousin. They ended up washing up just off Runway 4 Right at [...]

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