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All the news that's... whatever. Welcome to Random Bytes... Tuesday, December 03, 2002       Some of you have written for clarification concerning why, specifically, I feel special. Wouldn't you feel special if you had watched 500+ Gap commercials and could still put together complete sentences? I consider myself to be excep....    4:37:08 PM     According to Yahoo!, dotUSA spam netted its progenitors over $350,000...not a bad deal for doing nothing. Strikes me as a decent way to spend my Christmas vacation too...:)    4:37:06 PM     ROTD: "ICANTBELIEVEITSNOTMICROSOFT.COM" - new Lindows slogan?    1:40:04 PM     The Berkman Center has released a report penned by Edelman & Zittrain entitled "Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China". Amongst its conclusions, "Chinese network filtering is an important instrument of state Internet policy, and one to which significant technical and human resources continue to be devoted.". I still can't figure out why Random Bytes (detailed here) is on this list and was surprised to see Tucows on the list as well. As I mentioned previously, it is unfortunate that those that most need to read this report will be the least likely to see it.    10:51:34 AM     "All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships." - George Bernard Shaw    10:50:56 AM   © Copyright 2003 Ross Wm. Rader. The opinions expressed in this weblog are solely those of the respective authors. Last update: 1/27/2003; 11:38:24 PM.