skype - Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users not to share files this time, but to talk for free with your friends.
The USA PATRIOT Act: A Sketch "... terminates the authority found in many of these provisions and several of the foreign intelligence amendments with a sunset provision (Dec. 31, 2005)"
Why don't more reports on the USAPA mention this?
Is there a legal precedent wrt taping tv shows for personal/private viewing/replay? Where's the Tivo fit in? Is that precedent the same as sharing digitally copied files? What's 'personal/private'? How does the law define a group of friends? Seems there's some research to be done.
Doug Tidwell,IBM - writing's & presentations
Business to business frameworks for IDA networks, European Commission
Time to start getting real.
You know when time seems to slow down and a day really, really drags?
I'm pretty sure that's God running a debugger against the system.
I think the true questions that religion should be addressing are "Are we thread-safe" and "Will we be rebooted soon?"
- vickerne#irc