Archives for June 2003
eldred petition
June 03, 2003 by Eric Richardson
Earlier I mentioned the proposed Eldred copyright act. Now they're putting together a petition for it. In the slashdot comments, though, there is some definite misunderstanding of the act. It would not do away with the current life+70 term. Instead, it would simply require renewal at 50 years, and then if that renewal was done the normal term would transpire. You can't renew perpetually, only up to the full length of US copyright term. That said, Congress could still do its 20 year dance, but that's another whole can o' worms.
woo hoo!
June 02, 2003 by Eric Richardson
DHCP doesn't seem to like me at the moment, but with a hardcoded IP my DSL is working perfectly. That'll do for now. My apartment is no longer disconnected from the world. Now I'm off to eat food.
mmm... infomercials
June 01, 2003 by Eric Richardson
With no Internet and no cable, the only external input into my apartment is via broadcast television. Now, this is Los Angeles, so at least half of those stations are in Spanish, and pretty useless to me. The other half (minus my three PBS affiliates) seem to always be playing infomercials. For instance, I think I've seen the Miracle Blade one fifteen times in the last two days. At times it's on two channels at once. And the result? Those knives look amazing. I want a set.