In order to ensure that domain name registrants can still be contacted, CIRA has also established a unique message delivery system. CIRA will allow the public to contact domain name registrants without access to their personal information by relaying the message through a Web-based submission form.

How does the delay work? Exactly as the AP and the EFF have claimed: TCP reset packets. These are generated from Comcast's network management hardware and tell the uploading computer that some sort of error has developed in the connection and that it needs to start over.

"Not content with current statutory damages, the RIAA is pushing for higher damages for infringement(1), damages that would total $1.5 million for copying a CD with ten songs. It's all part of debate over the proposed PRO-IP Act. William Patry, a lawyer who wrote the seminal seven-volume reference on US copyright law(2), called it the most 'outrageously gluttonous IP bill ever introduced in the US.'"

"The Kickoff Webcast with Karen Ellis" webcast.

Internet Party: When Google's parents leave town...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgQMTLKmwrA


not to be watched during k-12 school hours warning

meta search engines and flicker, search quilt, read burner,

The list is intended to serve as a forum in which individuals of any and all interests can discuss Any and All issues relating to Online Social Networks, most notably their current and potential use by libraries/librarians and/or their current/potential use within institutions of higher learning.

Learn How Bit Torrent Works: Being tracked by anti-piracy organizations and receiving infringement notices on file-sharing networks is becoming more common. A security project manager has just released a short video showing how it’s done.

Fascinating, enlightening ... and appalling. WELL worth the time to read it! Video: How People Are Tracked Using BitTorrent

XO laptop, Give 1 Get 1, G1G1, One Laptop per child - Critics of the rollout have two key concerns.

Virtuoso hardware hacker Andrew "bunnie" Huang has posted a fantastic review of the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop, from a hardware engineer's perspective.

2007 Most searched for Google News, Presidential Campaigns, Lawsuits, RIP or Rumors of, TV shows, Movies, Lyrics, Ringtones, Recipes, Diets, Fitness, Who is, What is, How to.

This site is dedicated to the Preservation of the Legacy handed down to us by our forefathers! The Library is working to preserve this historic heritage whether in written, photographic, printed or hand-written form.

Sight See: Mummers Parade, Tradition and History in Philadelphia, PA. alive and well can still be seen every January 1ST. Learn more about the European-American masking traditions and community morality.

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Our 2007 picks

amateur media production and its importance in life-long learning. Since 1988, it has been an annual, statewide event open to school-aged Texas residents.

XO laptop delivered today - see it fresh out of the box!

NCAA sets rules for credentialed reporters. And, as a private organization, the NCAA can set whatever rules it wants for handing out credentials.

Prior to joining Internet2, Rob was the Director of theConnecticut Education Network Advanced Services Center

CommitteeCaller.com is a site that allows one person to target an entire congressional committee over the phone.

Understand Rootkit and why Sony is a Cracker.

Consumers Union has set up shop in dozens of state capitals, has signed up more than half a million activists who send e-mail messages to lawmakers and corporations and has taken on causes like forcing drug companies to disclose the results of clinical trials.

Sight See: Fact check: GOP debate in Florida

Sight See: The new site, USASpending.gov, launched today, two weeks ahead of schedule.

A former Texas principal launched TeacherTube this year so educators could upload their students' videos and share creative lessons while developing an online community.

Comcast's Secret War on File-Sharing Packet Forgery By ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair Without telling customers, Comcast had begun a secret program to send automatic reset commands to customers'computers if they were using BitTorrent, Gnutella, or a few other programs. Comcast installed new software or equipment on its networks that began selectively interfering with some of Comcast's customers' TCP/IP connections

Minnesota bans mercury from mascara, eye liners and skin-lightening creams. No other state has specifically gone after mercury in cosmetics. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics in Berkeley, Calif. Mercury-added products used by schools are not subject to this ban. (4) (a) Except as provided in subsection (4)(b), beginning January 1, 2008. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Louisiana ban products containing more than low levels of mercury, with some exceptions. New York and Illinois prohibit consumer products with mercury, such as figurines, toys and jewelry. Many ingredients aren't listed on the labels

School officials say IDs will only be checked against sex-offender registries.Phone with sex-offender alerts: With GPS technology, linked to a national database of sex offenders.