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Week of 1999-12-26

Friday, 1999-12-31 What comes after 99? 2:51:26 pm Nigerian phone monopoly kicks out competitors, claims Y2K fears. 1:47:16 pm Y2K early indications are good. 1:30:55 pm Wednesday, 1999-12-29 DVD reverse-engineering injunction denied. 11:34:32 pm

Wednesday (cont.) eToys "moves away" from its lawsuit. 10:11:18 pm It was probably the Martians. 4:47:31 pm Linux programmer rescues Microsoft's passport.com. 3:33:40 pm To the ramparts. 9:32:28 am Sunday, 1999-12-26 A promising automatic directory builder.

Week of 1999-12-19

Wednesday, 1999-12-22 Hunting for trouble. 2:19:27 pm Last-minute and shameless about it. 10:58:39 am

Tuesday, 1999-12-21 A fabulous dictionary resource. 2:33:25 pm Airline CEO to fly on Y2K rollover. 11:54:35 am

Week of 1999-12-12

Saturday, 1999-12-18 Behind the bright full moon. 7:26:14 am Wednesday, 1999-12-15 FDA approves lenses to correct colorblindness. 10:45:09 pm Adequate key sizes.

Wednesday (cont.) Assessing the worldwide impact of the Y2K bug. Galaxies' dark-matter halos far larger than suspected. 3:16:50 pm Monday, 1999-12-13 The Internet Freedom Journalism Awards.

Week of 1999-12-05

Friday, 1999-12-10 Is eToys paying in market cap for bullying etoy? Wednesday, 1999-12-08 Patent issued for psychographic profiling of users. 5:33:29 pm

Monday, 1999-12-06 Credible claim of a GSM crack -- 230M cell-phone users' privacy at risk. 3:24:25 pm What is "in plain sight?" 9:53:49 am Sunday, 1999-12-05 Fast. Free. False. 11:39:48 am

Week of 1999-11-28

Friday, 1999-12-03 An evil new spammer tactic. 3:26:51 pm Backflip and the limitations of privacy policies. Wholesale price list declared copyrightable. 12:52:53 pm See anywhere from anywhere. GPLTrans: can Open Source supercharge language translation? 12:24:45 pm

Thursday, 1999-12-02 Judge enjoins Barnesandnoble.com from using copycat "One-Click" ordering. 11:58:33 am Wednesday, 1999-12-01 AM radio degrades ADSL service. 11:54:02 pm Europeans mull blocking Pentium III. 10:55:49 am First-generation computer to compute again. 10:55:22 am The IETF, Open Source, and Isaac Asimov. 10:55:07 am

Week of 1999-11-21

Saturday, 1999-11-27 NSI suspends its dispute-resolution policy Thursday, 1999-11-25 The roving_reporter on "viral regulation."10:20:20 pm

Tuesday, 1999-11-23 Unimobile: a worldwide mobile device made of bits. Cool stuff found at Comdex, part 1.12:12:44 am Cool stuff found at Comdex, part 2.12:12:10 am Building a black hole in the laboratory?12:11:43 am

Week of 1999-11-14

Friday, 1999-11-19 Judge appoints a mediator if Microsoft, DoJ want to talk. 8:34:44 pm Thursday, 1999-11-18 German high court overturns Net censorship verdict, and Australia cheers. A new way to probe a network. 8:54:47 am

Wednesday, 1999-11-17 Do not entrust a password to Windows CE. 1:54:44 pm Tuesday, 1999-11-16 [ missing ] Two new activist sites. 2:51:22 pm Sunday, 1999-11-14 [ missing ] First-ever Usenet gag order.3:42:43 pm

Week of 1999-11-07

Friday, 1999-11-12 Grey hairs atop dot-coms.10:26:07 am Thursday, 1999-11-11 New trend: fleeing the dot-com.2:02:12 pm IETF says "hell no" to wiretapping.12:52:34 pm

Wednesday, 1999-11-10 The government's role in intrusion detection.10:40:12 am Bubbleboy virus breaks a new move.10:00:46 am Monday, 1999-11-08 Been to the well. 8:40:51 pm

Week of 1999-10-31

Friday, 1999-11-05 ICANN committee proposes nationalizing country codes. 9:15:29 am Thursday, 1999-11-04 Cheek of the week (supermarket division). 7:28:16 am Wednesday, 1999-11-03 Egg on the engine. 5:23:18 pm A bad week at RealNetworks. 5:23:04 pm A nation of spammers and pornographers. 10:40:26 am

Tuesday, 1999-11-02 Australia drafts rules to implement Net censorship. 11:19:31 am Monday, 1999-11-01 E-nough already. 1:59:10 pm Molecular wires. 10:33:09 am RealJukebox spies on you. 8:16:54 am Alta Vista search is broken. 1:03:01 am

Week of 1999-10-24

Thursday, 1999-10-28 No deposit, less return. 9:58:28 am Wednesday Aeneid Corp. buys InGenius Technologies. 7:49:39 pm ICANN under heavy fire. 2:03:44 pm OpenSRS blows open wholesale domain-name competition. 1:50:37 pm US all but shut out of ICANN board. 1:28:14 pm Tuesday Sneaky customer tracking by email. 7:27:33 pm Blogging goes mainstream. 11:08:07 am webACE -- the world's smallest Web server, for now. 10:25:03 am Monday Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet. 6:01:16 pm Zeppelin NT. 5:35:12 pm .NU domain is the first to respect privacy. 4:57:09 pm

Monday (cont.) New Crypto Law Survey. 3:23:16 pm Cat's eye. 2:21:12 pm Sleazy domain-name marketing. 12:12:36 pm 503 Fled. 11:50:09 am Rules may change for crypto source export. 11:14:41 am Hollywood objections threaten content-protection scheme. 10:52:24 am Copycenter. 9:56:37 am Punchline optional. 9:30:53 am More popular than sex. 9:16:11 am Sunday Doubleplusungood Astroturf. 7:56:33 pm France may mandate Open Source. 6:23:36 pm A fine attitude towards Y2K. 4:41:42 pm Panel at Stanford on government computer surveillance. 4:36:01 pm Domain names -- has the little guy already lost? 4:25:51 pm