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Contents of the most recent issue -- TBTF ping for 2001-04-20: Reviving

TBTF's long hiatus is drawing to a close -- This brief note is the first of several I will send to this list to excise the dead addresses prior to resuming regular publication.

 

Highlights of recent issues

A perfect privacy storm. Spam fighters duke it out Poking at Echelon. What if smart people wrote computer viruses? Domain naming as speech -- exploiting Elian. Adbots and spyware. That dang paperclip. Amazon.com poisons the well. Cyber Patrol CPhackers get sued and settle on Internet time. Process Tree Network: monetarized distributed computing. Privacy boils over: DoubleClick flip-flops. TBTF book review: Database Nation. Playing keep-away with scrambled files. Snow screeching on water. Did eToys pay in market cap for bullying etoy? Backflip and the limitations of privacy policies. OpenSRS to blow open domain-name competition. The straight dope on the DVD encryption crack. Introducing t byfield's roving_reporter. TBTF book review: High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson. Transmeta aims squarely at Intel. Enhancing online discussion with Take It Offline. Think Open Source guarantees you can know what a program does? Think again. Sorting out the Microsoft NSAkey flap. Careful, the smart dust might be watching. A wake-up call to PR flaks everywhere. How can I crack thee? Let me count the ways. Jargon Scout: blogging a vortal. Aibo rampant on a field azure. DoJ wants more black-bag jobs. Court to AOL: you've got bupkus. Debunking a new urban legend: chemtrails The AOL / Microsoft food fight -- a pox on both their houses. First shot fired in a price war for domain names. Judging now much to worry about near-earth objects. Bill to relax crypto exports is gutted. Is this any way for the Beacon of Democracy to act?. Tracking satellites at home. The Commerce Department yanks ICANN's chain and backhands NSI. Taxing the Internet -- US Netizens' free ride may end after 2001. Gigabit networking through open air. US admits crypto export controls are about signals intelligence. Baby steps toward privacy marketing. The patron saint of the Internet.
 

Highlights from H1 1999, H2 1998, H1 1998, 1997, 1996, and 1995

TBTF features

• Siliconia — the essential list of Silicon Whatever appelations around the world. Siliconia was named to The Tech 10 for March 1997 by the Tech Museum of Innovation in Silicon Valley.

• Jargon Scout — advance warning of jargon that is just about ready to hatch into the Net's language.

• 1998-09-11 The Congressional Hypocrites page names the names of the 285 most hypocritical US Representatives on the subject of the Internet.     Updated for the 106^th Congress.
   
• 1998-02-02 The TBTF Guide to Non-US Domain Name Registries — some of the first places that allowed anyone to register a second-level domain name, before competition for Network Solutions, Inc. began.
   
• Religion on the Net — a sampling from the farther side of spiritual observance in Cyberspace.

 

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