BLOGical Thoughts

I have finally started converting the rest of the Shadow Magazine stories over from text to HTML. I finished all the stories from 1943, 1944 and 1945. You can find them on my eBooks web page.

It rained, so it was hard for me to change the tires on my Honda. I will probably get that done this week sometime. As for my Plymouth, it won’t start, as the brand new battery is dead. This indicates to me that there is an electrical problem that is draining the battery. I will charge the battery today and see if I can get it started.

Silly sign of the day:

Free/Open Source Software

• The Five Things You Aren’t Allowed to Discuss About Linux - Our monthly FUD from Microsoft’s biggest shill
• Report: Linux, open source greener than Windows
• Joe Barr rips proprietary software vendor a new one
• Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software
• Your Open Source Solution to Tax Time
• “Open Source Means You Have to Be Better.”
• Pondering Linux PC Preloads

RIAA/MPAA/IFPI/BSA/FCC

• Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA
• Lawmakers Bash Colleges Over Campus Piracy
• Congressman Hollywood: Universities a wretched hive of scum and villainy
• MPAA’s Aggressive Anti-Piracy Propaganda

Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense

• Perspective: Two cheers for intellectual-property law - Brad Smith is general counsel at Microsoft.
• Then and Now
• The DRM threat to desktop Linux

Other News

• Judge Says Linux Guru Hans Reiser Can Stand Trial for Murder
• Intel’s anti-trust memos started vanishing from the top
• Halliburton Moving C.E.O. From Houston to Dubai - Away from an increasingly unfriendly government.
• Politicized justice
• Microsoft Customers Irate over Daylight-Saving Time Woes
• AZ wants police data wiped after 24 hours - But what about ISP data?
• Gonzales must go after ‘abuse of power’

Security/Our Rights

• Medievalizing Biotech Regulation
• Romanian Hacker Broadcasts eBay Customer Accounts
• This data breach brought to you by the government
• FBI audit finds improper use of national security letters

Big Brother

• How the USA PATRIOT Act redefines “Domestic Terrorism”
• FBI Misuses Patriot Act to Get at Consumer Data
• Big Brother State — GENIUS animation about surveillance society
• FBI agents ‘abused Patriot Act powers’
• Hot Rats in Connecticut/Reform in China
• Secrecy rises: Washington gives public less and less