Free Kaneko!

What’s wrong with the arrest of Isamu Kaneko, author of Winny? I can see the bumper stickers now.

VoIP goes Mobile

VoIP goes Mobile

Here’s how the MG-3 works: first, you have to sign up for VoIP service with a company that resells i2 Telecom’s hardware and network access. You’ll get the MG-3, a little plastic box stuffed with microchips, which you plug into your broadband connection and existing phone line. Then, when you want to make a long distance call with your mobile, you just call your home number. The MG-3 will recognize the mobile’s number using Caller ID, and connect you to i2 Telecom’s VoIP network. You get a second dial tone, and you can make your overseas call.

How soon until there is a debian package of some software that does the same thing?

Closed market school system

Student Whose Hair Set Afire Told To Stay Home. What’s shocking about this story to me is not that some moron would treat this girl this way but rather the school’s reaction:

The interim principal at Martin Luther King Middle School declined an on-camera interview, but said her staff made serious mistakes in this case and that she will offer Glowczewski and her family a summer school program and transportation.

Meanwhile, both Mark Stevens, the spokesman for Denver Public Schools, and the superintendent declined to discuss the case or DPS policy for dealing with such issues. That seems to be the same response Glowczewski’s parents got when they complained to the administration.

Umm… what? You make an very bad mistake, and then make it many times worse by refusing to actually talk about it? (sound like the Bush admin?) And the people involved can’t stop paying these joker’s either, Uncle Sam takes it from the and pays them. Time to move to the Free State.

Stupid patent award

Stupid!

Important Facts

From Time, Nov. 15, 2003, page 20:

  • $2.9 Billion — Amount spent on lingerie in France last year, more than any other country in Europe.
  • 87% — Portion of the French population that believes lingerie is an important part of life.