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Update: Nintendorks.com now actually has something on it!!! You
may recall that the domain name finally started resolving just like a week ago, and now Jon says the
site will be back up soon, and that Nathan is the man of the hour for having 16 MB of backups on his
computer. Yea Nathan! Man, it's been so long since I've had a good dose of 'Dork humor....
Sorry for skipping two days, I've just been busy with stuff in the evenings.
MIT is going to be putting most of it's course work online over the next few
years. Now you can download and view the same materials that the students going to MIT will be
doing. It's nice to know that there are still some places where information can be freely exchanged
and distributed.
There is a very cool article about the National Institute of
Standards and Technology. It talks about some of the functions that it serves (like holding the
official US kilogram) and some of the neat things they do there. That'd be a really neat place to
work after graduation.
Microsoft has done it again. They have once again attempted to totally destroy whatever user
privacy rights that one might expect. At least this time they have attempted to fix it. CNet and ZDNet have the stories, which
deals with Microsoft's Passport websites and their privacy policy that used to say:
"by posting messages, uploading files, inputting data, submitting any feedback or suggestions, or
engaging in any other form of communication with or through the Passport Web Site, you...are
granting Microsoft and its affiliated companies permission to: Use, modify, copy, distribute,
transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, publish, sublicense, create derivative
works from, transfer, or sell any such communication."
So basically anything you sent via a passport website (such as Hotmail) would be MS property for
them to do whatever they wanted with it. Boy oh boy.
CNN has a GREAT article on hacker
movies ranging from the awesome movie War Games to the recently released and incredibly accurate
Antitrust. It talks about how Hollywood has portrayed the hacker culture and the various movies that
reflect it, such as Sneakers and social engineering. Very very interesting article.
Now here is an ironic article: China commenting on US Human Rights violations. Most of it's
complaints has to do with what's wrong with the US as a whole, and not really how oppressive our
government is, but it's still a very interesting piece of propaganda.
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