Archive 29. June 2004

Bergen Linux User Group

RFC 1149 - TCP over Avian Carrier - was actually implemented once. There are pictures of the event and a short description. Ping times of over 6000 seconds. Wow.

Here's the original article.

Law-free spaces are illegal

A small but important victory for reason in the USA.

At Telepolis News (29.06.2004) you can find the original article.

Save the iPod

In the USA, there's another crazy bill proposal to regulate music users. In this case, if the proposal becomes law, all devices that can play music without explicit permission from the music industry would be illegal. That includes the iPod - after all, it plays all music tracks without DRM. Or iTunes, which rips CDs and doesn't use DRM for files created this way.

Here's the original article.

Ruling: Performance-based civil service remuneration is lawful

With such things, I always find myself questioning the definition of performance... At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.