Expect Resistance & Library Autonomous Zone

Students Fight E-Vote Firm. By Kim Zetter.
Wired, Oct. 21, 2003.

A group of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has launched an “electronic civil disobedience” campaign against voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems.

The students are protesting efforts by Diebold to prevent them and other website owners from linking to some 15,000 internal company memos that reveal the company was aware of security flaws in its e-voting software for years but sold the faulty systems to states anyway.

Tara Calishain has an article in PCMag called 20 Great Google Secrets. These tips could really enhance your searching.

“…most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but with more than 3 billion pages in Google’s index, it’s still a struggle to pare results to a manageable number. But Google is an remarkably powerful tool that can ease and enhance your Internet exploration. Google’s search options go beyond simple keywords, the Web, and even its own programmers.”

File this under “news of the weird”. DoCoMo researchers have demoed a 10 mbs Ethernet running over human meat rather than copper wire. Pretty soon we’ll be talking in the third personal plural (”we are borg!”) [From boingboing]

Ars Technica: Apple’s iTunes Music Store: dissed by Microsoft, breakin’ some machines, and facing challenges by Ken “Caesar” Fisher. (10/2003).

This article analyzes some of the technical issues as well as the and DRM social issues.

The Register Oct. 20, 2003.
“Microsoft monopoly says Apple monopoly is too restrictive” By Andrew Orlowski.

Microsoft warns consumers that the Windows-based version of iTunes is a
“closed system.”

There’s plenty of irony in seeing one monopoly accuse another monopoly of restricting users’ choices. But monopolies they both are.

The Register
“Victory declared in the open source war that never was” By John Lettice, Oct. 20, 2003.

OMB Watch - Ideas Wanted for 10 Most Wanted Government Docs

Remeber the last “10 most wanted”?

http://www.cdt.org/righttoknow/10mostwanted/

OMB Watch is asking for ideas for a new “10 most wanted government
documents.” Part of the announcement:

As part of an effort to fight increased government secrecy, we would
like your help in identifying:

(1) the ten or twenty government documents — or categories of
documents — you would most like to see the government make available
to the public

(2) problems you have faced finding government information

Send your ideas to info@openthegovernment.org.

Complete announcement:
http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/1864/1/193/

The Ten Most Wanted Project of 2004 is being prepared by OMB Watch and
the Center for Democracy and Technology for OpenTheGovernment.org.

Microsoft may face upheaval in open-source policy
Trend ‘unstoppable’ for open standards
By JUSTIN POPE.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
October 20, 2003

Eric Kriss, Massachusetts administration and finance secretary, instructed the state’s chief technology officer to adopt a policy favoring “open standards, open source” technology.

Promises to Keep Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment by William Fisher.
(forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2004).

Drafts of the introduction and chapter 6
(An Alternative Compensation System) of this
book by Fisher, who is Professor of Law at Harvard University and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, are available now. Chapter 6 “sets forth one possible solution to the problems that currently afflict the music and film industries.”

Library Journal 10/1/2003.
by John N. Berry III, Editor-in-Chief
“Ominous omens in entertainment and information”