Ouch!

Music artist get cheated even more than I thought. Check out this article by Janis Ian, recording artist from way back. Looks like the Courtney Love piece, but written better.

Wisdom in Slashdot.org comments? Who would have thought!

I really liked this comment from /.

No, it means capitalism lost :)

Actually, it was “corporatism” that brought on this failure, not “capitalism”. We’ve been moving away from capitalism here in America since the 1978 Supreme Court decision that defined corporate political donations as “free speech”. Our biggest corporations essentially bought the 1980 elections after that decision.

That’s when these corporations began a major paradigm shift away from “maximizing profits” and towards “controlling markets”. Capitalism requires free markets, and doesn’t function in controlled markets.

Drinking from a firehose

Today I’m attempting to catch up on news. I was at Tate, my family’s home on a lake, with no phones/cellphones/internet for a whole week. At first I just going day by day thru /., opening a tab for each intresting link, but then I had 40 tabs open by the time I got to Wens, and Galeon isn’t coping with it very well (100% cpu useage).

The worst news of last week (of what I read so far): 2600 Dropped the DeCSS Case

Best news: Someone with a bit of clue wrote a story on M$ latest attempt to take over the world in the grey lady.

Projects to finish

cypherpunks archive I want to make the best mailarchiving software yet, and then apply that to cypherpunks mnet xml rpc Split mnet into two parts: the backend and the gui. The gui will communicate with the back via xmlrpc. tunetagger Mostly waiting for other hacks on musicbrainz to get finished (new sig code esp. libmp3hip adding encoder guessing, info on mp3 streams, seeking, floating point interface, lame analysis interface

Unanswered question

Unanswered because I don’t have time to look it up: In a AChord network can you somehow find out if there is a node that has a specific hash? I don’t think you can, but…