August 4, 2001

Previous -- August 2001 -- Next
Salon has some good ideas on protests to free Dmitry Sklyarov. For those of yall who aren't keeping up with the saga, the FreeSklyarov.org has a good background article. Essentially Dmitry was arrested in Las Vegas during DefCon, because he had written a program that violated the infamous DMCA. He lives in Russia so violating a US law isn't that big of a deal over there, but once he was in America, Adobe gave the police a tip and they arrested him. Anyways, the whole hacker community is an uproar with protests across the country, and a bail hearing is set for August 6th, so that's the next big date for this thing. Here's to hoping he'll be freed.

Mozilla .93 was released a few days ago. It's not drastically different than .92, but it is an improvement. It's getting closer and closer to that magical 1.0 release.

Modern medicine strikes again, this time with a ingestible camera. It was designed to take pictures of the small intestine as it goes through your body, in order to try to figure out what is wrong with the patient. It then comes out the other end in 8 to 72 hours. And the capsule is only $450 a pill too.

Previous -- August 2001 -- Next