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235 posts from 1996 to present • Page 8 of 10

2001

FTAA, EFF, Skylarov, DMCA

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\The following letter was sent regarding recent lanugage in the FTAA draft agreement that would require, effectively, all nations in the Americas South and North to make it illegal to reverse engineer copyright-protection software. This would permit...

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Active Optimism

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There are, in my view now, two kinds of optimism. There is the pleasantly naive optimism that comes from living a relatively sheltered, loved life. This is how I would characterize my life heading into college. As I ran across the ups and the downs o...

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Lack of Updates

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There have been a definite lack of updates to my website over the last half year early 2001-mid 2001. Some of you have been asking about this. Why have I slacked on posting? It's because I'm going through some very painful and wildly confus...

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Aphorisms

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Just for the sheer, unadulterated hell of it, I'll put some aphorisms of mine here. They may alternately amuse, disgust, or bore you....

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Hired

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I'm hired. I got a job at Legato Systems1 today. It's a big company &8211; a couple of thousand people. It looks like I'll be one of their architects, helping them get a good vision for the future of backup and then helping them actual...

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The Rental Home Efficiency Problem

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There is a fundamental problem with energy conservation as it relates to homes that are rented from a central organization, such as a realtor. It's a very simple problem: the realtor pays for infrastructure, but the renter pays for the utility b...

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2000

Philosophy: The Necessity of Subversion

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I occasionally undertake mildly subversive activities, like posting documents describing how proprietary protocols are organized1, setting up MP3 sites2, explaining to people how to get around bans3, describing anonymous file exchange possibilities4,...

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Unfreezing The Site

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In the coming days, the now-familiar "frozen" sign should be disappearing from the site. That's right, I'm back1 and I've got an itching to do some cool things with this site....

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