{"id":252,"date":"2002-05-14T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2002-05-14T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/05\/14\/my_morning_news.html"},"modified":"2002-05-14T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2002-05-14T14:09:05","slug":"my_morning_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/05\/14\/my_morning_news.html","title":{"rendered":"my morning news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the nice part about going offline for more than 4 hours at a time is that there is a lot more to read&#8230;<br \/>\nthis morning i got to read more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/02_19\/b3782610.htm\">Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s thoughts<\/a> on how the Internet is going to be controlled by a small elite.  i agree with his idealism, but i can&#8217;t see how the internet is any different than anything else in our globalized world &#8211; the powerful just keep getting more powerful and the internet is just another sign.<br \/>\nso, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitwaste.com\/wasted-bits\/archives\/000074.html#000074\">apparently MIT is starting to filter email<\/a> to stop the <a href=\"http:\/\/securityresponse.symantec.com\/avcenter\/venc\/data\/w32.klez.e@mm.html\">KLEZ.E worm<\/a>.  now, i&#8217;m definitely an avid hater of this worm (and i&#8217;ve been getting 40+ messages with it per day and it was the cause of my latest email switch), but i can&#8217;t say that i&#8217;m thrilled that my mail is being filtered at a higher level.  i really believe that some mail systems should filter (and i would like to get my mother on one of those systems), but i want the choice.  i want to be given the option between &#8220;unfiltered mail server&#8221; and &#8220;filtered mail server.&#8221;  as someone who knows how to deal with viruses on my end, i want to see all of them and filter for myself; that&#8217;s why i don&#8217;t \/dev\/null any messages &#8211; just bounce and copy a version for me to see what&#8217;s up.  if you aren&#8217;t as savvy with email, join a mail server that filters for you.  somehow, i just think it&#8217;s a bad sign that MIT is not giving us that choice, MIT of all places. <br \/>\ni still feel really badly for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/05\/14\/television.kimmel.reut\/index.html\">bill maher<\/a>.  his show is called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/abc.abcnews.go.com\/primetime\/politicallyincorrect\/index.html\">politically incorrect<\/a><\/i> and yet he is still being punished for making a rather poignant sarcastic remark because it was utterly politically incorrect.  ::sigh:: that is never a good sign for those of us who want to criticize what is going on.  but this returns to the power problem: you have to have power to have a voice and in order to get power, your voice must be inline with all of the other powerful voices. <br \/>\ngone are the days when you have to worry about showing up dead due to database errors; now, you can simply be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/?020513ta_talk_mcnamer\">wrongly presumed a terrorist<\/a>.  oh, how i love this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.databasenation.com\/\">database nation<\/a>.<br \/>\napparently, my roommate is having a lot more fun with <a href=\"http:\/\/haptotrope.diaryland.com\/020512_28.html\">random strangers on the &#8216;net<\/a> (and even jesus related).  oh, speaking of which, we passed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icouldbemadonna.com\/pix\/bos\/02misc\/pages\/020405_jesus03.htm\">the jesus house<\/a> yesterday and our religious christmas tree offerings are still adorning the outside tree!  how exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the nice part about going offline for more than 4 hours at a time is that there is a lot more to read&#8230; this morning i got to read more of Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s thoughts on how the Internet is going to be controlled by a small elite. i agree with his idealism, but i can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}