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I suppose it's time for another update. Or else I'm just relaxing a bit after yet another long day of studying, as
I have 3 midterms, a quiz, and a large programming project all this week. Well one midterm I took on Monday, but I have a
Stat midterm and Solid State quiz tomorrow. Fun fun fun!
I rode a mechanical bull for the first time on Friday night. I won't mention how long (or lack of long, my hands were slippery ok!) I was on there, but if I'd done it "like the guy in the cowboy hat!" did it, perhaps I would have lasted longer.
The Half Life 2 source was stolen
from Valve last week, which means that HL2 might be delayed until April now. It almost sounds like something out of a
fiction novel, as it was a methodical attack and they're now releasing beta's of the game on the internet. Just proving once again, the only truly secure machine is buried 6 foot underground with no power.
The Electronic Fronteir Foundation recenetly released their annual report of how the DMCA is trappling all over our rights,
which is presented in a paper titled Unintended Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA. Examples included threatened researchers, foreign scientists avoiding the US after a Russian programmer was arrested under DMCA charges, free speech censorship, press censorship, keeping printer ink cartridge prices sky high, and of course the infamous DeCSS lawsuits. When will the madness end?
The VeriSign redirections are no more, at least for now. No one
liked the idea of a company having that much power over what people see, and so after the threat of lawsuits and court injunctions, VeriSign caved in. So typing in nonexistant URL's gives you the familiar "Address Not Found" browser error. The redirection was causing all sorts of havoc with spam scripts that checked to see if a domain name was valid or not, and some ISP's decided to take matters into their own hands and give address errors if VeriSign's "SiteFinder" site was accessed.
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