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Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.corbis.com/corporate/pressroom/News_Coverage/WSJ_070103.pdf Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/0122216 An anonymous reader writes "Today, speakeasy (the greatest ISP ever) sent out a letter from the CEO introducing their [0]NetShare Wi-Fi plan. It lets you share your broadband with your neighbors, with Speakeasy handling the billing and splitting the fee 50/50. More ISPs should be like this!" Links 0. http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/ Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/2354205 mattOzan writes "Marc Andreessen told Reuters today that [0]browser innovation ended five years ago (which would put us at about [1]Navigator 4.5 beta -- what was so innovative about that? The [2]"What's Related" button? [3]Beatnik integration?) "Navigation is an embarrassment. Using bookmarks and back and forth buttons -- we had about eighteen different things we had in mind for the browser." Well, pass me the NDA and tell me what they were!" Links 0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=1&u=/nm/20030701/wr_nm/tech_internet_andreessen_dc 1. http://wp.netscape.com/netcenter/newsletter/july1998.html 2. http://wp.netscape.com/communicator/navigator/v4.5/ 3. http://www.beatnik.com/developers/faqs.html On The Trail Of Super-Zonda http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/230238 [0]Dynamoo writes "BBC Radio 4 has been on the trail of the notorious [1]Super-Zonda spammers and crackers, according to [2]this article. Super-Zonda's trick is to find insecure hosts and pressgang them into webservers for mail order brides, viagra and other spam favorites. In this case a server is traced back to a hacked machine at a major international airline. The BBC investigate some of the people allegedly behind the spam in an investigation starting on the Spamhaus houseboat in London and ending in the Netherlands via Moscow. The BBC point the finger at Martijn Bevelander of [3]MegaProvider as being not the innocent party he seems. The BBC provide some evidence to back this up, and are not known for rash accusations." Links 0. http://www.dynamoo.com/ 1. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&q=super-zonda&sa=N&tab=wg 2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3036092.stm 3. http://www.bevelander.nl/ MandrakeSoft's Status Update http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/225223 [0]joestar writes "[1]MandrakeSoft today posted an [2]update letter from its CEO about the company's health. Among other things, it's interesting to learn that the company seems to be on the good track to go out of the "chapter-11 protection" before the end of the year, that it's taking part to several publicly-funded research projects, and that Mandrake 9.1 is having a good success. They also thank for the warm support they received from the community. Worth a read for all Mandrake fans, like myself. Viva la Mandrake!" Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ 2. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2425 Regulatory Fees on the 802.11 Broadcast Spectrum? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1850225 [0]Demerara asks: "I live in the Caribbean where I am putting together a business plan for a WISP on St. Lucia. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the St. Lucian National Telecomms Regulatory Commission [1]here licenses and charges [2]fees for 2.4Ghz spread spectrum applications. It's nearly US$400 to apply and, get this, nearly US$800 per link, per *year*. This blows the economics of a WISP out of the water. I may be reading the laws and regulations wrong but I don't think so. For example - they even charge an application fee and an annual license for the 'Family Band' walkie-talkies - look in the fees PDF. I am attempting to find out the following: what international agreements govern spectrum management; what international agreements govern licensing of WiFi or 802.11; and finally, are there any Slashdot readers out there who live in countries where 802.11 technology is also licensed or heavily regulated? The [3]ITU website doesn't seem to answer these questions or, to be fair, I cannot come up with the keywords to find the answers. I'd love to hear from others who use or operate 802.11 under less than 'free' regulatory regimes." Links 0. http://www.mcdis.com 1. http://www.ectel.info/lca 2. http://www.ectel.int/lca/Laws%20and%20Regulations/S.I.%20No.%2096%20of%202002.pdf 3. http://www.itu.int/ Leave Outer Space to the Millionaires http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/180254 [0]tcd004 writes "Martin Rees, Britain's Astronomer Royal has an interesting article in [1]Foreign Policy arguing that the future of manned space travel [2]should be left to wealthy adventurers. He points to the fact that modern state-funded space disasters become national traumas, and argues that that gung-ho millionaires are more free to take risks because they 'don't represent a nation; [they] represent humanity.'" Links 0. http://www.lostbrain.com 1. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ 2. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/story.php?storyID=13790 Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1755214 An anonymous reader writes "[0]Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy details the tactics of retailers and marketers to sell customer data. Examples include promising not to sell consumer data, but then 'renting' the data, and the use of shopping cart software with different privacy policies than the merchant." Links 0. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54888-2003Jun30?language=printer DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1751250 while(true) writes "As [0]reported previously here on Slashdot, hypersonic jets from NASA has recently been in the news. Now [1]DARPA is showing interest in the military applications and is to host a conference on hypersonic unmanned bombers. These bombers could be based in the US and yet strike from space at any place in the world within 2 hours. BBC has a [2]report about these air/spacecraft that could be operational by 2025." Links 0. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/1150249&tid=126 1. http://www.darpa.mil/baa/sn03-23.htm 2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3035332.stm Electronic Giants Form CE Linux Forum http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/01/1646220 [0]Adam Wern writes "Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony Corporation, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation, today [1]announced the establishment of the [2]CE Linux Forum. CELF will discuss and formalize requirements for extensions to Linux to meet the needs of CE products such as audio/visual products and cellular phones, etc. CELF will publish such requirements and will accept and evaluate open source solutions that support to meet the published requirements. CELF will also promote broad usage of Linux for CE products. IBM, an industry leader in Linux solutions and supporter of open standards ecosystems, is pursuing membership and plans to be an active participant in the CELF." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.celinuxforum.org/PressRelease/pr02.htm 2. http://www.celinuxforum.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
