Clinton Favors Computer Snooping: I wonder if Internet advocates have overstated their case to the federal government a bit. Is it any surprise that after years of being told that the Internet is beyond their comprehension, and that one motivated "hacker" can Destroy the World Economy in a Single Keystroke, that the federal government is grabbing every power they can get, regardless of such petty details as the Constitution?
Working with the Mac IE4.5 people. I hear 5 isn't being correctly detected by the script (pulled straight from the Microsoft site, no less). I hear there's a work-around for IE4.5, which is to move a simple function call into the "onload" event. And I hear that it still isn't working correctly for some IE4.5 people. Oh well... it was a neat idea, right?
Ooops. Lost everything from today. Let's retry:
ICraveTV deserves a Boundary Breakers entry. Although I can't see that they're terribly controversial (they're toast in the lawsuit, methinks), they sure seem to think they're doing nothing wrong.
Ummmm..... the fact that you simply claim that it is legal, moral, and ethical doesn't make it so either. Apparently it is legal in Canada to rebroadcast under certain circumstanes... and if the TV streams never left Canada, I'd have nothing to say. But ICraveTV doesn't appear to limit it at all, so, whether or not they mean to, they are violating a lot of laws in a lot of countries.
ICraveTV is Served Up a Lawsuit: "This is a clear and damaging case of theft by iCraveTV that threatens the intellectual property, investments, and achievements of the US television and motion picture industry," said Jack Valenti, president and chief executive office of the Motion Picture Association of America... vs. the ICraveTV line "What we're doing is ethical, is legal, is moral, and the fact that somebody claims to the contrary does not change the true nature of it."
Cynical prediction: Based on past experience, this case will settle while side-stepping as many issues as possible. People seem allergic to actually resolving anything.
DVD Case: Battle of the Basics: There's more issues flying around here then I feel safe in even explaining... just read the story, they're fairly clear in this case (which is why the EFF has mobilized).
Jon Katz evokes a lot of different opinions from people; I tolerate him, there is a place for people who state what seems blindingly obvious. (That place probably isn't Slashdot, but that's another story.) His recent bit, Raising Creative Jerks, had an interesting quote: "Only certain groups are really free; everybody else has the appearance of freedom but if their views diverge from the norm they are assaulted, harassed, driven off." Point to ponder: Is this a form of 
In Defense of my Javascript. I understand your concerns. But I'm 150% fed up with the brain-damaged scheme concocted... what, 2 years ago?... by Netscape to salvage what was essentially the Netscape 1 engine so it would work with DHTML in some limited, annoying fashion. Until Navigator catches up to IE, it's written off my list.