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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 28 Dec 2000 13:00:00 GMT
Andrew Orlowski at The Register - EFF's Gilmore calls for CPRM hardware boycott: CPRM is Copyright Control for Recordable Media, a copy protection mechanism that is now being designed into the industry standard ATA hard disk spec. The boycott is a good idea, IMNSHO. Hard to say if it will work with IBM bought into the idea. [wes]
So spread the word. No copy protection should exist ANYWHERE in generic computer hardware! It's up to the BUYER to determine what to use their product for. It's not up to the vendors of generic hardware, and certainly not up to a record company that's shadily influencing those vendors in back-room meetings. Demand a policy declaration from your vendor that they will build only open hardware, not covertly controlled hardware. Use your purchasing dollars to enforce that policy.

The Partnership for Civil Justice - A Guide to Effective Participation in the 2001 Inauguration: instructions for protesters. Promises to be an interesting inauguration. I plan to be elsewhere. [cures-not-wars]

Bob Fertik at PentionOnline.com - Impeach George W. Bush: an on-line petition asking Congress to impeach the new president. 3839 signatures so far. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk. [cures-not-wars]

Hal Cohen at The Standard - The Price Is Wrong: why flat rates and fixed prices are here to stay. A fixed monthly rate for internet service is irrational, since some people use vastly more network resources than others, but customers prefer flat rate pricing, so they get it. [faisal]

Virgina Postrel - The Scene: Weekly comments on current ideas and events from the author of The Future and Its Enemies. This week's issue is the first one. Ms. Postrel comments on the new organic labelling standard and other topics. [mind]

JavaTM 2 SDK, Standard Edition (J2SE) Version 1.3.0_01 is available from Sun for Solaris, Windows, and Linux. This is a bug-fix release intended only for people who need the included bug fixes. [cafe]

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