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Low End PC Archive. March 2002

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• This $5 PC is a keeper, Jeff Garrison, Thinking From the Box, 03.05. "This machine is a delight. It surfs pretty well. I call it quick. It's quicker than any other 486DX I've fooled with."
• more in the Feb. 2002 archive

Around the Web

• Rights: "I have my rights," Ed Stroliho, Overclockers.com, 03.31 [/.]. "...in general, fair use rights are legal, not constitutional rights. Congress can giveth, and Congress can taketh away"
• Advice: How to get rid of old computer equipment, Damien, AppleTechs, 03.30. Several suggestions - or find a Low End PC fan to take them off your hands. :-)
• Dark Side: Microsoft & Unisys to launch anti-Unix campaign, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.28. Sounds like someone's scared of the competition.
• Rights: Bloody hard to run a forum in Sweden, Mikael Pawlo, The Register, 03.28. It seems the owner of a site is responsible for anything anyone posts in a forum.
• Opinion: Think you need a new PC? Here's why you don't, Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times, 03.26. "Software is the hidden cost of a new PC."
• Rights: More on the Washington/Hollywood plot to destroy computing and the Internet, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.26. "This initiative, if not stopped, will ruin computing, the Internet, and reduce us all...."
• News: AOL mail: OK for others, not itself, MSNBC, 03.22 [/.]. AOL Time Warner retreats from using AOL email after months of problems and complaints.
• Rights: Scientology uses DMCA to delist critic's website, Slashdot, 03.21. "xenu.net is now posting a 'censored by google' image on their front page."
• Opinion: Why BeOS shares Tucker's fate, Scott Nasuta, osOpinion, 03.21. Parallels between the innovative Tucker automobile and the OS Apple and Microsoft buried.
• Rights: Beware employment contracts, Slashdot, 03.20. Work for hire provision may entitle employer to all of its employee's creations, even those developed outside the workplace and unrelated to the job.
• Analysis: Email, Web at work - is the free lunch over?, Bernhard Warner, Yahoo/Reuters, 03.18. Personal shopping and email in the workplace could be history.
• Analysis: Unbreakable: Why assaults on Microsoft's monopoly fail, Daniel L. Taylor, osOpinion, 03.15. "Consumers don't just choose an OS - they choose access to a software library."
• Humor: How to be a copyright pirate, Jeff Adkins, The Lite Side, 03.18. Follow these easy steps to become one of several types of copyright pirate, matey.
• Opinion: Dispatches from the copyright war, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.15. Canadian copyright levy, Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley, does gov't serve the governed or business?
• Rights: Cripple all those email clients, Ben Tilly, O'Reilly Network. Under proposed SSSCA (digital content protection) legislation, forwarding email would be illegal copyright violation.
• Opinion: Canada announces astronomical tax increases on recordable media, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.13. "Canada, of course, is the home of tax fascism...."
• News: Cable Internet subscribers up, FCC to label service, Lycos, 03.11. Once FCC classifies cable Internet service, it will be able to regulate it.
• News: Canada to raise tariffs on recordable media, Slashdot, 03.12. Proposal adds $105 tax on Apple's 5  GB iPod to subsidize the recording industry.
• Opinion: Who stole my domain?, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac, 03.12. Traffic aggregators are ready to buy your expired domains and redirect them to porn sites, online casinos.
• Opinion: Disney versus fair use and the public domain, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks, 03.08. "...there have been 11 acts that have stretched the copyright term from the original 14 years to beyond 100 years in some cases...."
• Opinion: Why Microsoft is thumbing its nose at the courts and will probably get away with it, I, Cringely, PBS, 03.07. "The best settlement would be the total removal of Gates from Microsoft."
• Rights: Republicans should back recording artists, consumers, Fox News, 03.07 [/.]. Democrats now the champions of big business - or just big donors?
• Rights: House rep's rap: Unshackle the CD, Declan McCullagh, Wired, 03.07 [/.]. One Democrat wants to outlaw copy protected CDs, rewrite DMCA.
• Web: Charges of the site brigade, Leslie Walker, .com, Washington Post, 03.07. "...electronic subscriptions, enough to make me think real online businesses are finally being born."
• Web: Dead sites spawn porno portals, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.07. A short list of one-time Mac domains that now lead to unexpected subject matter.
• Opinion: Slashdot ad free: The worst subscription service ever launched, Dotcom Scoop, 03.06. "...never has anyone introduced an ad free service that creates a direct link between the level of usage and the cost."
• Dark Side: Old "feature" gives hackers control of Windows PCs, John H. Farr, Applelinks, 03.06. "An attacker can run arbitrary commands on Windows machines with a simple bit of HTML . . . even if active scripting and ActiveX are disabled in the browser security settings."
• more in the Feb. 2002 archive

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