Archive for September, 2008

The CONTU Final Report

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

The Final Report of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (The CONTU Report) was conveniently scanned to pdf by Digital Law Online. However, they provide it as seventeen different pdf downloads, without providing a single pdf containing the entire report with all appendices. I’ve combined them all in one [...]

U.N. agency eyes curbs on Internet anonymity

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Interesting CNET article,
A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the “IP Traceback” drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting [...]

A Land Called Paradise

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

In December 2007, over 2,000 American Muslims were asked what they would wish to say to the rest of the world. This is what they said. A music video for Kareem Salama’s “A Land Called Paradise.” (Winner of LinkTV’s 2007 One Nation Contest’s Grand Prize):

History of the Browser User Agent String

Monday, September 8th, 2008

In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing…
History of the Browser User Agent String.