This letter is from last month but we haven't covered it on Politechbefore. Read it carefully: The FBI claims that using an open 802.11access point without explicit authorization may be a federal crime("theft of services").

Posted by GeeTee at August 14, 2002 02:39 PM

This is just silly Declan. I am being legally threatened over the name of my weblog. Davezilla.com, a parody/humor site run by me since 1995, is being threatened by Toho Co. Ltd., for being too similar to Godzilla [they own all Godzilla movies, toys, etc.].

The letter I received via Fed Express from their lawyers on Saturday is on my site here: http://www.davezilla.com/index.php?p=1292

Posted by GeeTee at August 14, 2002 02:28 PM

Efficiency alone won’t cut it. “We’ve really been trying to push the envelope within MSN to provide new ad units,” he says, citing one variation that pops up ads for goods or services that match an editorial subject (a potentially hazardous practice) and another that sent a Saturn whizzing across the screen. An insert in the e-mail version of “Today’s Papers” --  still valuable even though it lacks the verve founding columnist Scott Shuger brought to it  -- runs $20,000 a week and reaches 100,000 subscribers a day.

Posted by GeeTee at August 14, 2002 02:09 PM

"The sheer volume of each day's work makes me fear I'm just processing people and have lost touch with my better self. Am I becoming indifferent to horror?"

Posted by GeeTee at August 14, 2002 02:04 PM

For instance, Law said he reassigned the Rev. Eugene O'Sullivan from Massachusetts to a New Jersey parish, in part, ''because of the publicity attendant to the case and the possible scandal that can cause.'' O'Sullivan pleaded guilty to raping a child.

Posted by GeeTee at August 14, 2002 12:00 PM

"They're predicting conflicts between communities over water and rights to water because there will be a shortage of potable water in Atlantic Canada. These are incredible things, these are Third World kinds of things happening here in Canada, and we're doing it to ourselves."

Posted by GeeTee at August 14, 2002 11:16 AM

Researchers at the University of Northumbria.... recently conducted a study where they mapped the structural elements in the programming language Pascal to a series of musical motifs, composing variations on a seven-note scale. Once the participants in the study had gotten their heads around the idea, they "listened" to a string of software code, isolating potential bugs the way you might pick out wrong notes in a song.

Posted by GeeTee at August 14, 2002 05:28 AM