Re: FCC vs decentralization

2004-02-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:36 PM 2/13/04 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >"retranslating" the stream. This way it may not be technically possible >for the broadcaster itself to know the number of listeners -> impossible >to assess the fees -> impossible to getting reliably proved the number of >listeners to. What can ha

Re: Windows source leaked?

2004-02-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
[sent to al-q; does [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward there?] At 06:25 PM 2/12/04 -0500, Riad S. Wahby wrote: >Among others, /. is reporting that Win2k and WinNT source code may >have leaked. The horror, the horror. >Lots has been said about OSS developers not wanting to look at this >for fear that they

Re: FCC vs decentralization

2004-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 04:36:56PM +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > FCC recently mandated fees for Internet radio "broadcasters", based on the You're hailing from .cz, me from .de. Of what relevance is FCC to us? > number of listeners. However, there are emergent technologies for P2P > broadcasti

Call to the Usual Suspects

2004-02-13 Thread Trei, Peter
I'll be in the SF/SJ area the week of the RSA conference. Anyone interested in getting together for dinner one night? We used to try to schedule a BA Cypherpunks Physical Meeting to match up with the event, but the PMs seem to have died out. Peter Trei

Free RSA Expo passes available

2004-02-13 Thread Trei, Peter
The RSA Security Conference in San Francisco is coming up: Feb 23-27. As in the past, free Expo passes are available if you register online at the conference site: http://2004.rsaconference.com/ (The expo is not open all days - check the schedule). Last year, getting a badge required an ID and ge

FCC vs decentralization

2004-02-13 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Wondering a little. FCC recently mandated fees for Internet radio "broadcasters", based on the number of listeners. However, there are emergent technologies for P2P broadcasting, where some of the clients act as broadcasters themselves, "retranslating" the stream. This way it may not be technical

Re: Windows source leaked?

2004-02-13 Thread Dave Howe
Riad S. Wahby wrote: > Lots has been said about OSS developers not wanting to look at this > for fear that they will be "tainted." While it is true that simply > the act of looking at the code is unauthorized and illegal, I wonder > if there is any truth to the claim that a developer who looked at

FCC Rules on Internet Telephony

2004-02-13 Thread Tyler Durden
This came out on lightreading.com. Seems there's one tiny step backward for CALEA w.r.t Internet telephony. I guess it's obvious the FBI will eventually get it's way, but it's be interesting to see how it goes about it from here out. -TD At its open meeting today, the FCC took a couple of baby