Loyola University Chicago criticized for complying with a subpoena without a fight

The Register:
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Northwestern University law professor Anthony D’Amato has issued a strong caution to universities, calling on them to consider students’ privacy before shipping them off to the RIAA sponsored legal gulag.
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KASY0 cluster breaks $100/GFLOP barrier

Techdirt on lack of interest in legitimate music downloads

CSS diatribe

Jamie Zawinsky posts an interesting diatribe entitled CSS is BS.

What I did on my summer vacation

What a beautiful country. For my birthday, my wife gave me Giant Sequioas. For her birthday, I gave her the Grand Canyon.

I’ve posted about a third of my
pictures:
from the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, La Plata Canyon, Mesa Verde, Arches. The digital camera get sand in the lens cover so we switched to film. To be continued…

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat

Dissertation Could Be Security Threat (TechNews.com)
«this George Mason University graduate student has mapped every business and industrial sector in the American economy, layering on top the fiber-optic network that connects them»

Stanford’s Wireless Authentication

Network Computing (June 26, 2003):
Authentication Gets Into Stanford

Bill Gates on Spam

CNET on PlanetLab

Matrix Reloaded Flash Mob in Osaka

Rotten Tomatoes: Matrix Reloaded in Japan