#20yrsago #JohnGilmore on not obfuscating email in online archives https://web.archive.org/web/20030924160038/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200309/msg00069.html

#20yrsago Tell the #PatentOffice to back off on the open source WIPO debate https://web.archive.org/web/20030921014946/http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2776

#20yrsago Making Book: best of the proto-blogs https://memex.craphound.com/2003/09/09/making-book-best-of-the-proto-blogs/

#15yrsago #Heinlein’s fan-mail solution https://kk.org/ct2/heinleins-fan-mail-solution/

#15yrsago Content: my first-ever collection of essays https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/08/content-my-first-ever-collection-of-essays/

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#20yrsago #Doonesbury references masturbation, America’s editors surrender https://web.archive.org/web/20030907031050/http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/09/05/trudeau/index_np.html

#15yrsago Britain spends more on cops, locks up more people than any other developed nation https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/justice.police

#10yrsago 90 percent of #Tor keys can be broken by #NSA: what does it mean? https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/07/90-percent-of-tor-keys-can-be-broken-by-nsa-what-does-it-mean/

#10yrsago Lego robot that strips #DRM off #Kindle books https://allthingsd.com/20130906/how-a-man-in-austria-used-legos-to-hack-amazons-kindle-e-book-security/

#5yrsago How to: beat Chinese social media image-filtering https://citizenlab.ca/2018/08/cant-picture-this-an-analysis-of-image-filtering-on-wechat-moments/

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#20yrsago #BBC to put its entire archive online http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3177479.stm

#20yrsago #Citytv invents live television blogging https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/24/citytv-invents-live-television-blogging/

#20yrsago Save #Christiania, August 30th march in Copenhagen https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/24/save-christiania-august-30th-march-in-copenhagen/

#15yrsago Kids can’t “go out and play” anymore https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-15-oe-brooks15-story.html

#15yrsago #MickeyMouse bridges the culture war when teaching #evolution to evangelical students https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html

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#20yrsago US goverment trying to sink #WIPO #OpenContent talks https://archives.lessig.org/indexcd0e.html?p=2321

#20yrsago #GilbertoGil supports CD-burning automats https://web.archive.org/web/20031001111038/https://www.estadao.com.br/divirtase/noticias/2003/ago/19/30.htm

#20yrsago Out of Blue Six: a lost gem https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/out-of-blue-six-a-lost-gem/

#20yrsago Paramilitary wing of the #usability movement https://web.archive.org/web/20030823183246/http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/08/19#1061283840

#20yrsago #AnalFissures in a nutshell http://www.ambiguous.org/quinn/medical/fissure.html

#20yrsago Beyond Fear: Required reading for #AshcroftsAmerica https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/beyond-fear-required-reading-for-ashcrofts-america/

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#20yrsago Trademark-holders don’t have to be bullies https://web.archive.org/web/20030826225802/http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/08/14/trademarks.html

#15yrsago Stop Writing #YoungAdult #ScienceFiction https://gizmodo.com/stop-writing-young-adult-science-fiction-5037686

#15yrsago Young Adult Books Will Save Science Fiction https://gizmodo.com/young-adult-books-will-save-science-fiction-5036820

#15yrsago #RIAA has to pay $107,951 for court costs in failed suit against disabled single mom https://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/08/15/1145236/riaa-pays-tanya-andersen-107951

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#20yrsago #P2P network originates in #Palestinian refugee camp https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/in-refugee-camp-a-p2p-outpost/

#15yrsago Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html

#15yrsago #FreeCopyrightLicense upheld Fed Circuit Court of Appeals https://archives.lessig.org/index0d61.html?m=200808&paged=2

#10yrsago #Orwell explains Nineteen Eighty-Four https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-orwells-letter-on-why-he-wrote-1984

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#20yrsago #Ultima’s economic indicators http://www.juliandibbell.com/playmoney/2003_08_01_playmoney_archive.html#106022990884580908

#15yrsago #TrafficCams bring in $250,000/month in a town with a $4.6 million budget https://web.archive.org/web/20080813150522/https://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/47592.html

#15yrsago #WalMart: you can’t scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever https://www.flickr.com/groups/100_years_old/discuss/72157594167106526/

#15yrsago Janes in Love: #GraphicNovel is a call-to-art for young people https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/12/janes-in-love-graphic-novel-is-a-call-to-art-for-young-people/

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#20yrsago @cstross on mini-PCs http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi/2003/Aug/3#ukuug-1

#10yrsago Iranian government unveils finger-amputating machine for punishing “thieves” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9831727/Iran-unveils-finger-amputating-machine-for-use-on-thieves.html

#10yrsago Colorado lawmakers’ license plates exempt them from speed cams & parking tix https://consumerist.com/2013/08/02/colorado-lawmakers-have-magical-license-plates-that-prevent-them-from-getting-tickets/

#10yrsago My workflow in the WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324354704578635792701857784">https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324354704578635792701857784

#5yrsago #Audible puts the screws to indie authors https://web.archive.org/web/20180817070240/http://www.scottcarney.com/2018/08/acx-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

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#20yrsago #TSA adds “sarcasm” to list of aviation risks https://reason.com/2003/08/03/dont-say-you-dont-have-a-fucki/

#20yrsago Why John Gilmore is a #SuspectedTerrorist https://web.archive.org/web/20030816002916/http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/2003_08.shtml

#20yrsago Sen Coleman admits to downloading MP3s, but denies inhaling https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/coleman.mp3

#15yrsago #DHS border policy: we can steal anything from you, read all your data, and disclose it to anyone we want https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/article/2008/08/01/laptops.html

#15yrsago 3D fan-illustration for #Printcrime https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/02/3d-fan-illustration-for-printcrime/

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#20yrsago #Linksys using #GPL code, not releasing modifications https://web.archive.org/web/20031008144210/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3580

#15yrsago Public Knowledge’s “#SelectableOutputControl” video https://publicknowledge.org/soc-in-context/

#10yrsago Google flips on @NetNeutrality: all pirates want to be admirals https://www.wired.com/2013/07/google-neutrality/

#10yrsago Cyber-crooks mail heroin to @briankrebs https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybercrime-underground/

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#20yrsago Briefing the court on Fuck https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/passionate-defense-f-word

#15yrsago UK’s ISP-record industry deal won’t stop infringement, but will make it harder for the record industry to cash in https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jul/29/internet.digitalmusic

#15yrsago #TSA destroys the #RepRap’s first child http://blog.reprap.org/2008/07/tsa-really-wreck-reprap-child.html

#15yrsago To destroy Al Qaeda, we must end the war on terror: Rand Corporation https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9351.html

#15yrsago RIP #HarrietBurns, first woman #Imagineer https://web.archive.org/web/20080917032505/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/07/29/state/n164319D19.DTL&tsp=1

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#20yrsago #WashingtonPost embarasses itself with wifi FUD https://web.archive.org/web/20040820233734/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51284-2003Jul26

#15yrsago Super Man and the Bugout reading: what if Superman had been a nice Jewish boy from Toronto https://ia801603.us.archive.org/5/items/TheSuperManAndTheBugout/SMBO.mp3

#15yrsago Law prof and cop agree: never ever ever ever ever ever ever talk to the cops about a crime, even if you’re innocent http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/07/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html

#15yrsago Candian band staples CC-licensed CDs to phone-poles with anti-Canadian-DMCA messages https://web.archive.org/web/20080801204812/https://torontoist.com/2008/07/the_craft_economy_kill_bill_c61.php

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#20yrsago #Verisign will have to pay for sex.com mistake https://web.archive.org/web/20031203030438/http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59788,00.html

#15yrsago On the absurdity of “maximizing shareholder value” https://crookedtimber.org/2008/07/25/what-obligation-maximise-what/

#15yrsago #JackWomack’s underappreciated masterpiece, “Random Acts of Senseless Violence” https://www.tor.com/2008/07/25/randomacts/

#15yrsago Great opening lines from sf https://gizmodo.com/great-opening-sentences-from-science-fiction-5027128

#10yrsago Limited-edition #Makie toys come to Selfridges https://web.archive.org/web/20130730061115/http://makie.me/forum/topic/474-makies-in-selfridges-from-5th-august/

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#20yrsago #AnarchistU: #Toronto #FreeSchool https://web.archive.org/web/20030801233908/https://anarchistu.widge.org/bin/view/Anarchistu

#15yrsago #XKCD role-players reenact “I Love the World” strip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGhEJyfC7U

#15yrsago Racist cop uses UK Terrorism Act to detain mixed-race family and take away their disabled child https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7520598.stm

#15yrsago MPAA wants to randomly break your home theater depending on which channel you’re watching https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/eff-opposes-mpaas-selectable-output-control-fcc-pe

#20yrsago Crows use tools https://web.archive.org/web/20030811085621/http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/crow/index.html

#20yrsago #AOL to renege on #AIM interop promises? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-16-fi-aol16-story.html

#20yrsago MSFT #DRM infringes on Sony/Philips DRM https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-16-fi-patent16-story.html

#20yrsago A Brief History of Negative Space https://www.revolutionsf.com/fiction/negativespace/01.html

#20yrsago #MickeyMouse offs himself https://memex.craphound.com/2003/07/17/mickey-mouse-offs-himself/

#20yrsago How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001529.php#001529

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#20yrsago Reality shows: pointing the way to the panopticon future http://www.coherenceengine.com/blog/2003_07_01_archive.html#105830809488576022

#20yrsago How to fight for privacy https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2003/0715.html#1

#20yrsago MSFT provides tools to defeat its own #DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20030730184611/http://openp2p.com/pub/wlg/3517

#20yrsago Amtrak is faking it https://web.archive.org/web/20030718092819/https://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/07/15

#20yrsago Love in the age of #spyware https://www.salon.com/2003/07/16/city_of_angels/

#15yrsago Tiny sovereign Dutch neighborhoods in Belgian town https://bldgblog.com/2008/07/baarle-hertog/

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#20yrsago #Epcot to unveil the barfotron https://web.archive.org/web/20030808183554if_/http://www.jimhillmedia.com:80/legacy/index.htm?../articles/07142003.1.htm~contentFrame

#20yrsago #OldBailey records, 1674-1834 https://web.archive.org/web/20030717120822/http://www.oldbaileyonline.org.uk/

#15yrsago US #TerroristWatchlist now has more than 1,000,000 names https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/terrorist-watch-list-hits-one-million-names?redirect=cpredirect/35968

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#20yrsago #Disney relaxes dress-codes at Parks https://web.archive.org/web/20031207055230/https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/07/11/national1658EDT0719.DTL

#15yrsago @neilhimself: giving away ebooks sold my print books https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/07/results-of-free.html

#15yrsago Are musicians owed royalties for performance of their music in torture chambers? https://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-torture-by-music-performance-in.html

#15yrsago Ontario Privacy Commissioner to Google: Fight the Viacom/YouTube privacy order! https://web.archive.org/web/20130121131134/https://www.ipc.on.ca/images/WhatsNew/up-2008_07_08_IPCLtroGoogle.pdf

#10yrsago Florida bans computers https://web.archive.org/web/20130712222815/http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/florida-may-accidentally-banned-computers-smartphones-163211435.html

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#20yrsago #TuringMachines aren’t as universal as they could be https://www.coherenceengine.com/blog/2003_06_01_archive.html#105547327596834731

#15yrsago Ancient Roman #D20 for sale, $18,000 https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-4205385/?intObjectID=4205385

#15yrsago #DieselSweeties: the ten-volume free @creativecommons licensed collection edition https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ebooks/

#15yrsago Canadian DMCA is worse than the American one https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2008/06/canadian-dmca-fine-print/

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#20yrsago #Biopiracy: a new colonialism https://web.archive.org/web/20030625011109/http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16057

#20yrsago #EdFelten explains why “black box” DRM tech is bad for society https://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001359.php

#20yrsago Encrypted AIM https://web.archive.org/web/20030801072150/http://enterprise.aim.com/products/aim/personalcerts/

#15yrsago Virgin Media UK working with record industry to spy on and threaten downloaders https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/virgin-warns-illegal-downloaders-stop-or-face-prosecution-842086.html

#15yrsago Broadcasters fight hard against public use of blank #spectrum https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/06/if-white-spaces-fail-we-dont-have-that-many-chances-left/

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