[Slashdot-mailer] Slashdot Daily Report (11/17/2000)
David Jacoby
jacoby@ecn.purdue.edu
Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:00:02 -0500 (EST)
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At Last, Mir to be Ditched
A articles article from the "well-more-like-oceaned" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/16/1445255
Joshua Strzalko writes "I had originally thought
that the MIR space station was going to be kept in
orbit. Why with all that space fungus, it makes
for a great science experiment. However it seems
that in late February, the 14 year old space
station will make a controlled decent into the
Pacific Ocean."
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Interconnections
A books article from the "serious-connections" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/04/1538247
If your life is an acronym soup of protocols like
IPX and CLNP, and you sometimes feel like you need
a cot in the wiring closet, you probably ought to
keep reading -- more so if finding a fount of
information neither too abstruse nor too
patronizing is important. For the networking
professional, inveterate reader and reviewer Danny
Yee here briefly takes on a book called
Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and
Internetworking, which could be that fount. [TABLE
NOT SHOWN]
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Philly Court Convicts 2600 Staffer on Minor Counts
A articles article from the "inanimate-carbon-rod-too-close-to-call" department
sent by jamie
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/16/1645214
A 2600 staffer known as Shapeshifter was arrested
in the Philadelphia protests during the Republican
convention in August. Here's Slashdot's coverage
of that arrest. On Tuesday, Shapeshifter, whose
real name is Terrence McGuckin, was convicted on
two of the six misdemeanor counts. Apparently, the
only evidence used at the trial was the
uncorroborated testimony of a Philadelphia
detective. McGuckin was held in August for a week
on a half-million dollars bond. The four charges
that were dropped include the infamous accusation
that his cell phone was an instrument of crime.
The two counts he was convicted of were disorderly
conduct and obstructing a highway. His sentence is
three months' probation and a fine of $135.50. He
says he will appeal. According to 2600, despite
having a great deal of videotape, the prosecution
used none of it, and convicted McGuckin entirely
on the testimony of one police detective.
Detective Angelo Parisi says he saw McGuckin talk
on his cell phone, then point in a particular
direction. A small group of people then moved in
that direction to block an intersection for about
twenty minutes. Though Parisi was walking through
the city capturing video of protesters'
activities, this action was not caught on video.
Ironically, the protesters demonstrating to block
the intersection "dispersed after getting a
warning from police," with no arrests, says 2600.
Another protester arrested at the same
demonstration was John Sellers, an environmental
activist who was described in court as sowing
"violence and mayhem." According to the
Philadelphia Inquirer, "prosecutor Martelli spoke
ominously of the massive dossier that federal and
local authorities had built against Sellers."
Because of such comments, Sellers was held on $1
million bond, which is unheard of for misdemeanor
charges. He was released Tuesday because,
according to the prosecutor, there was no evidence
against him. The same police detective who
testified against McGuckin had been observing
Sellers.
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Scour is Dead
A articles article from the "boy-I'll-say" department
sent by CmdrTaco
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/16/1713226
jathos writes "The Scour Exchange is dead -- see
the announcement here. Does this just prove once
again that one company cannot own a peer-to-peer
file-sharing network?" Scour actually was a
reasonably useful tool for finding wierd images. I
used it regularly to find clipart for my own
devious projects. Guess we'll have to wait for
that multi media peer to peer system until
Gnutella is solid.
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5th Obfuscated Perl Contest Winners
A articles article from the "just-another-perl-hacker" department
sent by jamie
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/16/1725218
strredwolf points out that we have winners of the
Fifth Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest, noting,
"Unfortunately, my virtual machine didn't win."
(Insert loser-condolences here.) BTW, I noticed
problems with the code as printed: the winner of
category 2 lacks a terminal quote, and I couldn't
get the category 3 winner to compile even after
fiddling with whitespace. Put up a webpage with
code I can copy-paste-and-run, email me, and I'll
update this story with your link.
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Ian Clarke on Peer-to-Peer
A yro article from the "route-around-ICANN" department
sent by michael
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/16/1936216
Simone of O'Reilly writes "On Freenet, the more
popular information gets, the more copies it
generates--and the easier it is to find and
download. That's just one significant feature of
this promising peer-to-peer network. Freenet
inventor Ian Clarke may not be talking about his
new company, Uprizer, but he has a lot to say
about how decentralized architectures can fix what
ails the Internet. Here's the interview." We've
heard from Clarke before, but this is an
interesting piece.
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Monty Python and The Matrix LEGO
A articles article from the "ah-the-beauty-of-english" department
sent by Hemos
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/16/1919212
Senor-D writes "Shigeyuki Sandou, a LEGO minifig
creator from japan, has built multiple scenes from
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" using LEGO
minifigures. it can be found here in English or
here in Japanese. He also did scenes from "The
Matrix", they can be found here."
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ICANN Selects New Top Level Domains
A articles article from the "getcher-alternative-root-servers-up-for-.web;)" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/017236
Azog, joined by a bevy of like-mindeds, wrote
with the news: "ICANN has selected several
proposals for new TLDs for further negotiation.
The selected entries, and their proposed TLDs,
are: JVTeam (.biz), Afilias (.info), Global Name
Registry (.name), RegistryPro (.pro), MDMA
(.museum), SITA (.aero), and NCBA (.coop)." Here
is the unanimously accepted resolution. cyrdog
points to Wired's coverage, and pavelivanov points
to the story at CNET. And as several people have
pointed out, .web is conspicously absent, even
though it seems like a shoo-in. Someone, somewhere
is going to get that one day ...
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Layers Upon Layers: Plex86 Runs Windows95
A articles article from the "ok-so-there's-no-Plex86-bug;)-" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/022241
John Roberts writes, quoting the Web page of
Plex86 wildman Kevin Lawton: " Plex86 now runs
Windows95 on my Linux-Mandrake box, in full
virtualization mode!!! That adds Windows95 to the
plex86 project's previous list of guest operating
systems which it can run: MSDOS, FreeDOS, and
Linux. This is full virtualization mode. The CVS
server already contains my latest source code.
Here's a toast to all the people who have
supported plex86 development... [klink, klink,
sound of champagne cork popping] Check out this
screendump." Woo Hoo! The cost of VMWare may have
just risen a bit ...
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Commercial IPv6 service In Australia
A articles article from the "could-I-please-have-an-ip-for-*this*-atom?" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/0213212
Carl Brewer writes: "At last someone's doing
commercial IPv6 in Australia, [according to this
Computerworld Article]. Maybe this'll kick some of
the other ISP's into action." Fat pipes, IPv6 ...
next they'll announce affordable satellite links
to the whole country, lead-into-gold machines,
etc.
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Commercial IPv6 Service In Australia
A articles article from the "could-I-please-have-an-ip-for-*this*-atom?" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/0213212
Carl Brewer writes: "At last someone's doing
commercial IPv6 in Australia, [according to this
Computerworld Article]. Maybe this'll kick some of
the other ISP's into action." Fat pipes, IPv6 ...
next they'll announce affordable satellite links
to the whole country, lead-into-gold machines,
etc.
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Two For The Sky: Satellites For HAM And You
A articles article from the "sig-sig-sputnik" department
sent by timothy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/17/0336222
MaggieL -- KB3DXS writes: "The amateur radio
satellite Phase 3D (now officially AMSAT-Oscar 40
) was launched [Wednesday] night on an Ariane 5
rocket. It is now safely in its intended original
orbit. AO-40 is the culmination of a ten-year long
project to orbit a sophisticated, highly
programmable communications platform for amateur
radio use. Over the next 270 days engines on board
the satellite will gradually place it in its
intended final orbit. I received some of the
initial transmissions from the satellite this
morning at my station ... this is *way* cool.
Amateur radio is still thriving, despite fears
among the old-school hams who think that the
Internet has killed ham radio." Added to which, as
btbuzzard advises, you can now get your very own
personal communications satellite carried by a
device which would have been a lot scarier
launching 10 or so years ago.
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The code is mine
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