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Saturday, October 05, 2002

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Today marks the beginning of my 50th year on the planet. I am eligible to join AARP. I am officially an old fart.

4 days until Lawrence Lessig argues in front of the Supreme Court to overturn the CETA, aka the sonny bono copyright term extention act.

GO LARRY!!

Law School in a Nutshell is a series explaining the Eldred vs Ashcroft hearing. James Grimmelmann demystifies the format and helps you to understand what this is doing.

Law School in a Nutshell, Part 1
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Source: Lawmeme

Law School in a Nutshell, Part II
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Source: Lawmeme

Helping hackers to make you have a bad day.

Unchecked Buffer in Windows Help Facility Could Enable Code Execution (Q323255)
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Source: Microsoft

The Register puts this into real speak.

Help! MS issues another critical security fix
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Source: theregister.co.uk

This is interesting as Microsoft sends out HTML email with embedded ActiveX controls. The good news is that you can disable them.

It's Time to Stop the Music

I want you to stop buying Commercial Music and going to Movies for six months.
Because if You do not cut off their money they will cut off your Internet access. They have already killed Internet Radio.This is not about the short term pain of your favorite musician, they have already been screwed so royally that it is amazing that you can even recognize them.

It's Time to Stop the Music
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Source: the head lemur

Shelley Powers
Some folks can work with technology, some folks can write, very few can do both. Shelley does.

p i x e l v i e w - Shelley Powers
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