Bills to protect privacy need public support: "The victim discovered the fraud when bills started coming in for things she hadn't bought. Then ``I got letters from lawyers saying they were suing me because I hadn't paid,'' she says. The onus was on her to make things right with credit bureaus, financial institutions and the like -- and the paperwork was massive." Emphasis mine.

Thanks to array for the 'open-source' graphics. Both the graphic and the idea come from that site, I just switched the wording a bit:

This comes awfully close to what I've been developing as my theoretical ideal for communication rules... which someday I'll actually get a chance to write! (It's been outlined, step one I suppose.)

Innovation, Regulation, and The Internet: "The network is designed not to know these differences, but simply to take the packet offered and route it as it is addressed. This doesn't mean that users can't discriminate. The point of end-to-end is not that everything goes; it is to locate the power to discriminate in the users--they choose--and to remove that power from the network. The principle thus regulates the power to discriminate. It requires that the network have none."

Msg: Phil Wolff asks about the new law set to ban anonymous activity on French systems.

Oh, one last note: I would be extremely grateful for a better name... I stink at naming! Your name in the spotlight if you give me a better one!

Note that I'll be collecting all of the requests and doing them when I get back home from work at around 5:30 EST, so if you do ask to participate, it won't happen until then.

Now that I have participants, there are two major questions that need to be addressed: 1. Is two days long enough, or should it be moved up to 3 or 4 days? 2. Am I storing enough text to make it worth while or do I need to grab more per link? (Take a few days to consider it.)

The first batch of participants is in!