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As many of your know, I am a big fan of napster and gnutella. I moved to gnutella, figuring it was more robust than napster-- since it doesn't have servers, it is too slippery for prosecution (and it's open source..) However, napster has smart lawyers, and it looks like they are fighting back, and fighting back in a way that may change how music is handled online. They've accused the music companies of anti-trust activities. This news article is pretty interesting. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2198482.html pretty http://www.artcenter.edu/ from tomalak "Online Journalism Review: The Final Days of Privacy. But in this country, we sustain the illusion that the business community is capable of policing itself through voluntary standards of privacy protection. It isn't. The profit to be made from "mining" consumer data has proved just too lucrative for most businesses to ignore." http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=396 "Boston Globe: Net store to sell its customer list. For Toysmart, the dilemma involved deciding whether to sell its customer list to pay back more than $20 million in debt or keep its pledge not to share customer information with outside parties. The problem could become more common as dozens of online retailers appear headed for financial failure, privacy advocates warn." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/183/nation/Net_store_to_sell_its_customer_list+.shtml How much are you worth? A collection of places to find out. http://www.salary.com/ http://www.carolina.computerjobs.com/main_html/content/salary.dbm http://www.jobsmart.org/tools/salary/sal-comp.htm#Computer http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/ http://www.salarysource.com/ http://www.datamasters.com/cgi-bin/col.pl http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/cc/cc4.html http://www.abbott-langer.com/ mike, of biggerhand.com sends this http://www.conceptkitchen.com/products/pdas03508.taf?_function=quest another palm protector.. "Sweetcheeks, your desperate clinging to Old World technology was endearing at first, but now it just makes me tired. Paper is for the little people. " --Heidi and Josh, http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/99/08/stuff1a/transcript.html?tw=eg19990716 ................................................................ sick of me? Go to www.eleganthack.com and unsubscribe. Can't get enough of me? Go there and read my 'blog. |