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New quotes for Thu Jun 15
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Central America)
Thu Jun 15 04:21:28 1995
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 04:20:55 -0400
From: Central America <root@charon.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@charon.MIT.EDU
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arallen (Andrew Richard Allen):
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
travel:
Back from California. Got lots of new toys. No more travel until 7/1.
Lots of July weddings though, plus teaching at Stanford...
Lots of bicycling as well. I may donate my car to charity in order
to stop paying the insurance on it, now that I'm convinced that
I can survive by bicycle.
toys:
The metricom "ricochet" modems are *amazing*. kermit is giving
me 1500-2000 cps for large file transfers, from around 750ft away...
and a large encrypted rcp (over CSLIP) got closer to 2500 cps.
hacking:
Beta testing "xtrkcad" -- a linux-X11 program for doing railroad
layout. Discovered that my existing N-scale track layout can't
possibly work (oops :-)
Trying to get ESS-688 sound support working in linux, for only one
reason: driving the headphone port so I can practice morse code
for my General Class upgrade (13wpm code (1B) only.)
eit:
"Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.com>->cwd-l@cyberwerks.com
CyberWire Dispatch // Copyright (c) 1995 //
Jacking in from the "Last Safe Harbor" Port:
U.S. Capitol, Senate Gallery -- It's all over. Fuck it.
The Senate this evening, by a vote of 84-to-16, passed a draconian measure
today that restrains First Amendment rights in Cyberspace.
Say a "dirty word," go to jail. It's all over. Under this amendment to
the telecommunications reform bill now being debated in the Senate, the
first sentence of Dispatch would land both you and me and possibly the
system that zipped it though the Internet to your Email box in jail for two
years and cost all of us $200,000 each. And no, it wasn't billed as a
budget deficit reduction act.
The amendment was offered by Senator James Exon (D-Neb.) in conjunction
with Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) as an amendment to the Communications Decency
Act that was first added to the telecom reform bill. That bill's principle
author was Sen. Exon.
The last ditch stance to defeat the Exon amendment, a proposal by Sen.
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), which would have substituted Exon's abridgement of
first amendment rights with a more sane approach of studying the problem
and suggesting technical solutions to the problem of pornography the Net
was never even voted on, due to some procedural wrangling by the Senate
leadership.
A more detailed report of this floor action will follow later tonight.
In the meantime, Dispatch is moving its operation to Belize.
Meeks out...
$Date: 1995/06/15 01:04:16 $ $Revision: 1.121 $
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ereich (Evan H Reich):
Sorry I'm not currently logged on
I was last spotted on Wed Jun 14 16:36:51 EDT 1995
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ghudson (Greg Hudson):
"I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said
to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear.
"Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered
Tock.
-- Norton Juster, _The Phantom Tollbooth_
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nygren (Erik Nygren):
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