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I spent most of two days at MacWorld Conference and Expo at the Moscone Center, and it was very not bad, although since I don't own a working Mac and usually try to avoid proprietary software, there wasn't that much there which directly appealed to me personally. But the Mac and the Mac community still have a fairly high coolness factor, and I met some interesting people and saw many people I knew.
I did a couple of circuits around the Adobe booth with my EFF hat on and wearing the FSF's "Free All E-Book Readers & Programmers" button pinned to my shirt (although I didn't approach anyone from Adobe). It seems that most Adobe reps there had probably never even heard of Dmitry Sklyarov; in proper perspective, the Adobe e-Book stuff is a tiny portion of the company's business!
"Adobe's booth is about 60 times as large as [EFF's]." "Yes, but their annual budget is much more than 60 times ours, so we're doing pretty well, if you think about it."
I paid particular attention to companies which were selling audio capture or video capture cards, since we hear so much about attempts (or vague unformed desires) to regulate or ban these.
I picked up an iMic for Sarah from Griffin Technology, a cool technology company which was at the show. The iMic is basically a USB sound card, aimed at the Apple iBook and similar laptops which lack a built-in line input. (I think Apple could do more to document the fact that you need something like the iMic if you want to get audio into an iBook.)
The Yellow Dog Linux people were there and gave me a Yellow Dog sticker.
The bad news to which I alluded earlier is that Jon Johansen has been indicted under Norwegian criminal law (in connection with his publication of DeCSS more than two years ago -- or, some say, in connection with the creation of DeCSS even longer ago). There is a free-jon mailing list at EFF now, parallel with free-sklyarov. Yes, Jon really does face prison time if convicted.
Conveniently, EFF had "Free Jon Johansen" bumper stickers printed up in early 2000, and we still had a few of them in the office, so we were able to pass them out at MacWorld.
I made the best thing I've made since I started cooking. Mmmmm. But my cooking is very far from a science and nothing is repeatable; nothing is measured. This particular dish used: organic soba noodles (bought in bulk at Rainbow), sesame oil, House of Tsang stir-fry sauce, soy sauce, green curry paste, tofu, baby corn, fresh garlic. It worked really well.
Jim Tyre wrote
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:50:44 -0800 >To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu> >From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@jstyre.com> >Subject: California Public Records Act Reform > >[Dave, please consider this for IP. Thanks. -Jim] > >Fellow Californians with even the slightest interest in reform of the PRA >(CA state version of FOIA) should pay attention to, support, get the word >out on SCA 7, a proposed constitutional amendment introduced yesterday in >the State Senate. > >http://info.sen.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sca_7&sess=CUR&house=B&site=sen > >The California Supreme Court has said that the public's right to know is a >fundamental right, entitled to the highest constitutional protections, but >the Legislature consistently finds ways to weasel around that right, and >our Governor, Gray Davis, has proven to be a major foe of public access. > >"In California, access to government records has been deemed a fundamental >interest of citizenship." CBS, Inc. v. Block (1986) 42 Cal.3d 646, 651 >n5. "Maximum disclosure of the conduct of governmental operations was to >be promoted by the [Public Records] Act." Id. at 651-52. > >Please help make those words true. Thank you. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >James S. Tyre mailto:jstyre@jstyre.com >Law Offices of James S. Tyre 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) >10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 >Co-founder, The Censorware Project http://censorware.net > For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
A direct link to the bill's text is also easy to find.
"... but [a particular quantity] is only $50,000,000,000/year."
(Douglas Hofstadter reported a similar quotation somewhere in Metamagical Themas.)
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